Kakki wrote:
> Vince wrote:
>
> > What is hypocritical now is for G W Bush, who has picked >up the
> Goldwater/Reagan understanding of the 10th >Amendment (under which one would
> base states rights >claims) as part of the "original construction" of the US
> >Constitution as dominent over the 14th (through which >expanded federal
> role in the national life is justified) to file >suit to block the Florida
> recount.
Kakki responds:
>
>
> I'm not sure I follow this, though. He's not president yet and not acting
> as an official of the U.S. to block state's rights. He is acting as an
> individual who has a direct and personal interest in the way the process of
> recounting (and re-recounting) ballots is taking place in Florida. Every
> individual in this country has a right to appeal to a court of law if they
> think they believe their rights are being violated. By the way, he is not
> filing for injunction to stop the recount but rather to stop the second
> recount by hand of certain ballots. Big difference.
>
Good question, good friend, but I disagree and here is why: Bush is acting as
an individual who wants a federal court to rule in an area where it has never
ruled before, and that is the federal intrusion in a state matter. Doesn't
matter how he gets it to the court, should the rule in his favor then he has
caused a new intrusion and a violation of tghe strict construction that he
claims to uphold. My guess is that he won't get it.
And it makes no differtence what recount he asks for an injunction against,
even though he signed into Texas law a bill that says that hand counting is the
best way to recount (what a hypocrite but I digress). He is trying to stop
counties from recounting their vote in accordance with Florida law, and absent
a civil rights claim, that is opening the door to a massive federal instrusion
of a state - and county - matter.
When all of this is over, we all get littler certificates that we have all
brushed up on our civics, which is always a nobel goal!
Of course we have bored the hell of the nonUS citizens...
(the Rev) Vince
