-Caveat Lector- <http://www.spectator.org/corry/corry.htm> Al Terrible Tools Perhaps it no longer matters. So much damage has been done already that the Supreme Court's ruling may be moot. Al Gore and his people are spoilers. If they can't win the White House, they will discredit the administration of George Bush. Donna Brazile, Gore's campaign manager, is working with the Democratic National Committee and the unions to stage demonstrations. What matters to them is not the country, but their ability to seize and hold power. They really are terrible people. Gore's Florida strategy, of course, was to count and recount, and sue and countersue, and to divine the intent of voters no matter how inconclusive their ballots. The often expressed aim was to "count every vote," and somehow to find enough votes to win. But there has never been a national election, or, for that matter, a state or even big-city election in which every vote was counted. Consequently American elections have always been determined by tacit agreements and mutual understandings, and, improbable as it may seem in these cheesy times, a shared desire to do what's best for the country. The electoral process has been one of the things that has separated the U.S. from the rest of the world. But all this has now disappeared. Jesse Jackson, that bloated old fraud, showed up in Miami the day after the election to lead demonstrations and insist blacks had been disenfranchised, even though they voted in greater numbers than ever before. Jackson, who is now listed as a spiritual adviser to Gore, also likened the allegedly disenfranchised blacks to victims of the Holocaust. It was clear from the beginning that Jackson's sole aim was to further divide blacks and whites, while reasserting himself as a civil rights leader. Today, even as the nation awaited the Supreme Court ruling, Jackson and AFL-CIO president John J. Sweeney, also an unconscionable man, charged in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post that Florida election officials had conspired with the Republican Party to block, handicap, or otherwise intimidate black voters. David Boies and other trial lawyers have also done us a disservice. Nonetheless they and others like them may now have a decisive role in all future elections. Adjudication can replace the old give-and-take and mutual understandings. Senator-elect Hillary Clinton already has announced she will introduce a constitutional amendment to do away with the electoral college. She wants presidents to be chosen on the basis of the raw vote alone. This would provide an unending stream of work for the trial lawyers, of course, and insure that the lawyers and judges would be able to choose presidents. Florida today, and who knows where tomorrow? The trial lawyers could dispute elections, and fight for votes all over the country. Meanwhile the Supreme Court has been robbed of its dignity, which has always been its most precious asset. The sanctimonious Patrick Leahy -- he grows increasingly unbearable -- the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced on CNN over the weekend that the Supreme Court is losing its "credibility" and "moral posture." At the same time the New York Times felt free to say: "The United States Supreme Court did a disservice to the nation's tradition of fair elections by calling for a halt to the recount of disputed ballots in Florida." Granted that everyone knows the Times is deep in the tank for Gore and the Democratic Party; its one-sidedness is still stunning. When the Florida Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 to give Gore another chance to capture more votes, the Times congratulated it for acting "boldly and wisely." It dismissed Chief Justice Charles Wells's warning that the majority's decision had "no foundation in the law of Florida as it existed on November 7" and could lead to a constitutional crisis as an "overheated dissenting opinion." Meanwhile the Times now says it hopes the Supreme Court will measure up to its own high standards, although it hardly expects that to happen. In a smarmy editorial today it did its best to discredit the court in advance. It said it hoped the justices would "have the wisdom and vision to look beyond the tangled circumstances in Florida and shape a decision about extracting the people's verdict," but that it would be "Panglossian to suggest" that they would. The court so far, the Times said, has shown "little passion for the overarching themes of democracy." The Times's arrogance here is overwhelming, but that's the way it goes. May God protect our country from all these terrible people. 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