Quote Originally Posted by swede
The 3rd grader post was a little scary.
Not as scary as BallHawk pretending to be a teenager.

Quote Originally Posted by swede
(Remember in Florida in 2000 that the AG of FL called quits to the endless hanging chad debates because the constitution compelled her to either send a slate of electoral votes to the Congress or have the votes from Florida go uncounted. It is the electoral votes after all, constitutionally, that elect a President and not the popular vote of the nation. The Florida Supreme Court told her to desist, but the US Supreme Court, in a narrow decision, allowed her to quit counting and send Dubya's votes on up to Washington. Oh those were the days. The scales fell from my eyes and I saw who defended the constitution and who did not.)
The other way to look at that was that the vote was counted once, then Florida's Dem machinery did everything in their power to change the election rules post election including having the Democratic SSC ignore legislated law. All the US Supreme Court said, was first, by a 7-2 majority, that the whole fucked up process down there was not constitutional, and second, in the 5-4 decision that "no. you cannot unconstitutionally change the rules after the game's been played, especially when it involves ignoring the state legislature and the entire concept of checks and balances in the three branches of government."

Some people blame the US Supreme Court for handing Bush the election. All they decided is that the Florida Supreme Court could not act unconstitutionally in an effort to find 550 votes for Al Gore.