Scalia on Bush v. Gore: ‘Get over it!’

Sorry Supreme Court Justice Scalia, we can't get over it. Hasn't he seen the destruction caused by their decision. THEY WERE WRONG TO GIVE US GEORGE W. AND STOP THE COUNT!

GET OVER IT?

Never Conniepae, never!

If one counts the original vote count and recounts, Then out of 13 times the Florida votes were counted Bush won 7 times and Gore won 5 times. 11 recounts were done by independent groups. and in the counts Bush and Gore both won 5 times each.

It was interesting to note that based on Gore suggested way to count President Bush would have won and the suggested way of count by Bush, Gore won.

Interesting unfortunately, all of which are moot points since SCOTUS intervened.

This entry was posted by Steve on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=1348
I’ve got a better idea: why don’t you, Justice Scalia, try facing up to the fact that the disgrace of that decision — the raw partisan abuse of power — will stain you and the other four justices who made up the majority for as long as the history of this era is recorded.

Now, you get over that.

The comments that follow borrow extensively from something I wrote about Sandra Day O’Connor — a much more sympathetic figure, by the way — on the occasion of her retirement. But this updated version is just for you, Justice Scalia.

I’m sure you’re familiar with the old expression, popular both in retail merchandizing and neoconservative empire building, “If you break it, you own it.”

Well, you and your colleagues broke American democracy in December of 2000: Now you own George W. Bush.
As the people who put him into power, his legacy is your legacy.
You own it lock, stock and barrel.
You own the War in Iraq.
You own the foreign policy that’s left America hated throughout the world.
You own the incompetence of allowing Osama bin Laden to escape by refocusing our armed forces from Afghanistan to Iraq.
You own the corruption of the multi-billion dollar boondoggle no-bid contracts handed out like candy to Bush’s political friends.
You own the torture.
You own the ballooning national debt.
You own the lies.
You own the practice of using the Sept. 11 attacks for political gain.
You own Karl Rove.
You own the near complete disregard for our natural environment.
You own the dirty tricks.
You own the degradation of our civil liberties.
You own the slander directed against anyone who dares oppose Bush.
You own the failure to even try to address Global Warming, potentially the single greatest threat ever to confront humanity.
You own the tax giveaways to the super rich.
You own the outing a CIA operative, potentially placing everyone she’s ever worked with into danger, merely to score a little cheap political revenge.
You own the practice of filling up regulatory boards and commissions with industry insiders.
You own the near dictatorship level obsession with governmental secrecy.
You own the growing economic inequality in America.
You own the failure to even try to address America’s broken healthcare system.
You own the playing politics with stem cell research.
And you own the far right extremists Bush is appointing to the federal bench.
You own the betrayal of New Orleans.
You own the junking of the American economy.
You own the corruption.
All of this, and so much more, belongs to you now.

** DITTO! **

The simple way out of the dilemma was that Bush would have NOT sent it to the Supreme Court but the United States Congress if there was truly a tie.

That is how it is done.

No, we will never get over it because GWB turned out to be worse than a dud.

He has been the worst president we have ever had, worse even than Richard M. Nixon!

The court did not decide 2000, We the people decided the Presidential Election of 2000. The first count came out - Bush won. The Second time the ballots were counted Bush won.

After going through 11 more counts and changing the ways that ballots were count several times still Bush won 6 times to Gore winning 5 times.

We elected President Bush.

At any rate He won the 2004 Election not only by the Electorate but the popular vote as well, by more than 3 million voters.

Thanks Hawkmang, you're right, if only . . . if only

The court rightly judged that the recount was unconstitutional and violated equal protection. If Gore had not cherry picked the counties that he wanted recounted and had come in from day one with a demand for a statewide recount using one standard for the whole state, then things probably would have gone differently. Team Gore screwed it up, not the Supreme Court.

I can't believe Scalia had the nerve to blame Al Gore for Bush V. Gore.... What a jerk.