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Good Riddance to Decade That Began With Theft of the Presidency
Nation ^ | December 31, 2009 | John Nichols

Posted on 12/31/2009 4:20:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The original sin of the good-riddance decade came in December of 2000, when the United States Supreme Court intervened to stop a complete recount of the votes in Florida and then declared George Bush to be the president.

This extreme judicial activism was not merely a devastating assault on American democracy. It set in motion the Bush presidency, and with it the pathologies that the Bush-Cheney administration imposed on the country in the form of unnecessary wars, failed economic policies, assaults on civil liberties and crudely divisive and hyper-partisan governance.

Bush, Dick Cheney and aides are surely to blame for much of what ailed America during the 2000s, and for what will ail America for decades to come.

But it was the U.S. Supreme Court's unprecedented meddling in the presidential election process – an intervention that would have horrified the founders of a republic that was supposed to enjoy a separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers – made the Bush-Cheney interregnum possible.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2000; algore; floridarecount; goodriddance; lockbox; psychosis; riskyscheme; runslikeagirl
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To: gr8eman

The catch is that our secular calendar is an extension of the church calendar. While people argue whether or not they got 1 A.D. in the right place (let alone the debate over what date ought to count as Christmas) it is clear that a zero year was never intended and historians honor that convention. The year after 1 B.C. was 1 A.D.


41 posted on 12/31/2009 4:43:22 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: gr8eman

oops sorry, the connection to FR got hung up. inadvertent double post resulted.


42 posted on 12/31/2009 4:44:32 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
Have yo7 noticed that the left always wins recounts?

Because they keep recounting until they do win?

43 posted on 12/31/2009 4:44:43 AM PST by CPOSharky (Maybe nuclear winter would cure global warming.)
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To: verga
This Obozo waits 3 days to comment on the Detroit incident, and Bush was roundly criticized for finishing reading to children.

To be fair, Obozo was reacting to a failed incident, whereas President Bush was reacting to a successful one.

But three hours would have been a reasonable interval - not days. You know - the three hours that his staff took to tell him about the incident to begin with?

44 posted on 12/31/2009 4:46:33 AM PST by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: highlander_UW
The SCOTUS just didn't let him complete the theft effort. And now we can see how insane Gore is, as you said, thank God Gore didn't win.

We surely dodged a bullet...it had to be Divine Intervention.

45 posted on 12/31/2009 4:46:55 AM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Good Riddance to Decade That Began With the Unsuccessful Attempt at the Theft of the Presidency

Just helping out their headline writer.

46 posted on 12/31/2009 4:51:01 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: A.Hun

Not really. If Gore had won his HOME state, the Florida issue would have been moot. Liberals refuse to face this fact.


47 posted on 12/31/2009 4:51:48 AM PST by samanella ((I may not always be right, but I will never be left))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
John Nichols is a homosexual sex pervert and self described "Progressive" (what marxist without the balls to call themselves marxist call themselves these days).

Communist garbage, a filthy lying red son of a bitch ex hippie scumbag who lies for a living.

Watch out for him and give him a rash of shiite if you are unfortunate enough to happen upon him.

48 posted on 12/31/2009 4:52:27 AM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: samanella

Gore won the District of Columbia handily.
/s


49 posted on 12/31/2009 4:53:20 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: Future Snake Eater
“This extreme judicial activism was not merely a devastating assault on American democracy.”

This statement is a manifestation of the mindset that guarantees that this nation will fight another civil war. The 'reasoning' of the speaker STRICTLY serves himself and his seperate "reality", in this case, to the point of grotesqueness.

50 posted on 12/31/2009 4:55:22 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Was it Stalin or Lenin that said, “It doesn’t matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes.” That is why
this year we must trounce the opposition, because like you say if it is close they, the group who has no morals, will always steal enough votes to win elections. Not much difference between Democrats and muzzies is their?
God bless and a Happy New Year. 2010 pay-back is coming!


51 posted on 12/31/2009 4:56:38 AM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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To: Rome2000

When I see the label “progressive” I always wonder “progressing towards what?” It seems the tag is almost always used by those progressing towards hell and bent on dragging the rest of the world with them as they go.


52 posted on 12/31/2009 4:56:43 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: AbeKrieger

In that case (and I agree), they still have another year to wait for the decade that started with the final determination of that election to have passed.


53 posted on 12/31/2009 4:57:35 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (You don't have to be ignorant to be a Democrat...but if you are...so what?)
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To: TalBlack

The first civil war was not wrought with as much willful misunderstanding.


54 posted on 12/31/2009 4:57:39 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: matt1234

“Hey, Nation Boy, wait ‘til the next decade you get an 8 year dose of President Palin!”

From your lips to God’s ear.


55 posted on 12/31/2009 4:57:42 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: TheCipher

You beat me to it.
There was nothing complete about that re-count.
The writer lied in the first freaking sentence.


56 posted on 12/31/2009 4:59:58 AM PST by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Newspapers' recount shows Bush prevailed.
57 posted on 12/31/2009 5:00:44 AM PST by freedomwarrior998
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To: Future Snake Eater
I didn't think the USSC stopped a "complete" recount, but just a recount of the precincts Algore wanted recounted?

And, weren't they all Dem precincts?

58 posted on 12/31/2009 5:03:07 AM PST by moondoggie
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

Except in the 2000 election when the newspapers kept tallying the votes until May of 2001 and came to the conclusion that Gore lost the election.


59 posted on 12/31/2009 5:03:11 AM PST by listenhillary (I believe AGW is real now. It was caused by scientists and greenies LYING!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ah yes. Those poor Floriduh voters.


60 posted on 12/31/2009 5:04:00 AM PST by McGruff (We're Going Rogue Baby!)
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