Richard Cohen is a hack hack hackety hack hack. He writes a column about Justice French Fry and concludes it with this paragraph:
In effect, the fate of this nominee was settled back in the year 2000 when Florida, for better or for worse, squinted hard and pronounced George W. Bush its winner. The chads have spoken.
No, stupid. The State of Florida did not "squint" and "settle" the election back in 2000. The Supremes did, with no little assistance from two guys named John Bolton and John Roberts. Revisionist History? What Revisionist History? Oh, Revisionist Hackery, never mind.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.21.05 at 10:45 AM
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Absolutely a payback for Florida 2000. This guy has been a judge since when? Oh, way back in 2003 ... appointed by George W. Bush. Why am I not surprised?
The depths that this bunch will sink to are amazing. W throws this guy out to be considered for the highest court in the land as a ploy to help Rove. BTW, if Rove is involved in the Plame disclosure, W is certainly in it up to his neck. Let's hope the investigation of Rove leads to Bunnypants.
posted by: C. Grove on 07.21.05 at 02:31 PM [permalink]
Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but didn't the State of Florida rule that the recount should go forward - until the Supreme Court overturned their decision?
Oh well, it doesn't matter now, I'll just drink this Kool-Aid...
The supreme court of Florida, in accordance with the laws and constitution of the state of Florida found that the recount should continue with the affected counties being given the time they had lost as a result of the challange, but no more.
The Federal courts not only overruled the state supreme court, they insisted that absentee ballots that had been found to be defective had to be counted.
The state decided nothing, the Federal courts made the decisions.
In addition to Bolton and Roberts, Estrada was made a judge for his contribution.
Given that JEB had recused himself, one has to wonder what advice Roberts could give him and why it was worth a spot on the US Supreme Court.
