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	<title>Comments on: Souter nearly resigned after Bush v. Gore decision.</title>
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		<title>By: Alejandro</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alejandro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aw, if Souter had resigned then he wouldn&#039;t have been there to take away our property rights!! He didn&#039;t realize at the time what he would have missed out on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aw, if Souter had resigned then he wouldn&#8217;t have been there to take away our property rights!! He didn&#8217;t realize at the time what he would have missed out on.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4058934', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: O. Bigfoot</title>
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		<dc:creator>O. Bigfoot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But back to the issue:  You mean we were THAT close to getting rid of Souter and getting another Constitutionalist on the court?  What made the poor guy change his mind?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But back to the issue:  You mean we were THAT close to getting rid of Souter and getting another Constitutionalist on the court?  What made the poor guy change his mind?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4058780', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: O. Bigfoot</title>
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		<dc:creator>O. Bigfoot</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;#1 - â€œi weep every day over it as well.â€ Comment by grover nerdquist â€” September 4, 2007 @ 10:51 am

Due to this action, there are millions of Americans that weep right along with you.

Iâ€™m sure that, with a Pres. Gore, there would be 3000 more Americans alive today as well as 14 highly frustrated terrorists. A Pres. Gore would have listened to the â€œbin Laden to attack in the USâ€ report, rather than ignoring it like Pres. Bush did.

Comment by Democrat Soldier â€” September 4, 2007 @ 10:55 am&quot;

Unmitigated crapola.  Gore&#039;s boss, Hillary Clinton, and her minion, Bill, did nothing about Bin Ladin regardless of the intelligence which determined he was a threat.  And I don&#039;t recall Gore saying much concerning the issue, much less critisizing the Clinton Machine about their decision to ignore Bin Ladin even though he would have been handed over to the U.S.  

Nope.   &quot;Green&quot; Al would have been too busy saving trees to worry much about the lives of mere human beings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;#1 &#8211; â€œi weep every day over it as well.â€ Comment by grover nerdquist â€” September 4, 2007 @ 10:51 am</p>
<p>Due to this action, there are millions of Americans that weep right along with you.</p>
<p>Iâ€™m sure that, with a Pres. Gore, there would be 3000 more Americans alive today as well as 14 highly frustrated terrorists. A Pres. Gore would have listened to the â€œbin Laden to attack in the USâ€ report, rather than ignoring it like Pres. Bush did.</p>
<p>Comment by Democrat Soldier â€” September 4, 2007 @ 10:55 am&#8221;</p>
<p>Unmitigated crapola.  Gore&#8217;s boss, Hillary Clinton, and her minion, Bill, did nothing about Bin Ladin regardless of the intelligence which determined he was a threat.  And I don&#8217;t recall Gore saying much concerning the issue, much less critisizing the Clinton Machine about their decision to ignore Bin Ladin even though he would have been handed over to the U.S.  </p>
<p>Nope.   &#8220;Green&#8221; Al would have been too busy saving trees to worry much about the lives of mere human beings.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4058774', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cultist: &quot;Whaaaaaâ€¦â€¦whaaâ€¦â€¦â€¦ Sniveling lib.&quot;

Hey dumbass, do the names Cunningham and Boener ring a bell. They&#039;ve been balling their eyes out on camera lately and last I checked, they&#039;re both proud conservatives.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cultist: &#8220;Whaaaaaâ€¦â€¦whaaâ€¦â€¦â€¦ Sniveling lib.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hey dumbass, do the names Cunningham and Boener ring a bell. They&#8217;ve been balling their eyes out on camera lately and last I checked, they&#8217;re both proud conservatives.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057900', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/comment-page-2/#comment-4057803</link>
		<dc:creator>Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bush cultist: &quot;Thanks for reminding us about one of the greatest moments in US History - the preservation of the constitution over whining liberals hell-bent on stealing an election and trying to win via Florida Supreme Court. What a sham those justices were. I think most have been voted off by the people.&quot;

No, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that all of the State&#039;s ballots should be counted. The Supreme Court ruling prevented the counting of the votes. Later, an independent study of the results showed that if all Florida votes had been counted under any of the approved standards, Al Gore would have won. That&#039;s what happened, a-hole and I, for one, will not forget it. It was a judicial coup which installed a man as president who hadn&#039;t won the election and the history books will remember it that way as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bush cultist: &#8220;Thanks for reminding us about one of the greatest moments in US History &#8211; the preservation of the constitution over whining liberals hell-bent on stealing an election and trying to win via Florida Supreme Court. What a sham those justices were. I think most have been voted off by the people.&#8221;</p>
<p>No, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that all of the State&#8217;s ballots should be counted. The Supreme Court ruling prevented the counting of the votes. Later, an independent study of the results showed that if all Florida votes had been counted under any of the approved standards, Al Gore would have won. That&#8217;s what happened, a-hole and I, for one, will not forget it. It was a judicial coup which installed a man as president who hadn&#8217;t won the election and the history books will remember it that way as well.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057803', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Liberalismisdead</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liberalismisdead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for reminding us about one of the greatest moments in US History - the preservation of the constitution over whining liberals hell-bent on stealing an election and trying to win via Florida Supreme Court. What a sham those justices were. I think most have been voted off by the people. 

Souter is a cry-baby. We need more on the court that don&#039;t quit when associates don&#039;t agree with him. Whaaaaa......whaa......... Sniveling lib.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for reminding us about one of the greatest moments in US History &#8211; the preservation of the constitution over whining liberals hell-bent on stealing an election and trying to win via Florida Supreme Court. What a sham those justices were. I think most have been voted off by the people. </p>
<p>Souter is a cry-baby. We need more on the court that don&#8217;t quit when associates don&#8217;t agree with him. Whaaaaa&#8230;&#8230;whaa&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Sniveling lib.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057792', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ucsbclassics53</title>
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		<dc:creator>ucsbclassics53</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fox News was the FIRST to call Florida for Bush, and the other networks followed suit, because they didn&#039;t want to be labeled as liberal by you right-wing HACKS...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fox News was the FIRST to call Florida for Bush, and the other networks followed suit, because they didn&#8217;t want to be labeled as liberal by you right-wing HACKS&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057587', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Arne Langsetmo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arne Langsetmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More &quot;daveinboca&quot; ignerrence:

&lt;i&gt;The Democrats regard the US Constitution as an obstacle ...&lt;/i&gt;

and:

&lt;i&gt;And the Gore-bot threw away Tennessee and Arkansas because they know him for the fraud &amp; BS machine that he is.

Bush won in Florida, which wouldnâ€™t have mattered had Gore won his native state!&lt;/i&gt;

And where in the Constitution does it say that the legally elected president is the one who carries his own state?

Oh, yeah.  Right.....

Eedjit.

Cheers,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More &#8220;daveinboca&#8221; ignerrence:</p>
<p><i>The Democrats regard the US Constitution as an obstacle &#8230;</i></p>
<p>and:</p>
<p><i>And the Gore-bot threw away Tennessee and Arkansas because they know him for the fraud &amp; BS machine that he is.</p>
<p>Bush won in Florida, which wouldnâ€™t have mattered had Gore won his native state!</i></p>
<p>And where in the Constitution does it say that the legally elected president is the one who carries his own state?</p>
<p>Oh, yeah.  Right&#8230;..</p>
<p>Eedjit.</p>
<p>Cheers,<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057581', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And, yet, he&#039;s so damn sure he&#039;s right. It&#039;s pathological.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And, yet, he&#8217;s so damn sure he&#8217;s right. It&#8217;s pathological.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057580', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Arne Langsetmo</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/comment-page-2/#comment-4057570</link>
		<dc:creator>Arne Langsetmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#76 daveinboca:

&lt;i&gt;Of course, the Florida SC was a bunch of Dem party hacks....&lt;/i&gt;

Wrong.

&lt;i&gt;... And a recount showed Bush had a plurality....&lt;/i&gt;

Wrong.

&lt;i&gt;... And the US HOuse of Rep would have voted Bush in anyways.&lt;/i&gt;

True, but at least then the political machinations (&lt;i&gt;coup d&#039;etat&lt;/i&gt; for those fluent in Cheese-eating-surrender-monkeyish) would have been more blatant than the Miami &quot;Rent&#039;A&#039;Riot&quot; by Republican staffers flown in by the Dubya campaign.

When you&#039;re hot, you&#039;re hot.  One out of three.  Maybe you should try for multiple choice; you&#039;d start at 25% by chance and could work up from there.

Cheers,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#76 daveinboca:</p>
<p><i>Of course, the Florida SC was a bunch of Dem party hacks&#8230;.</i></p>
<p>Wrong.</p>
<p><i>&#8230; And a recount showed Bush had a plurality&#8230;.</i></p>
<p>Wrong.</p>
<p><i>&#8230; And the US HOuse of Rep would have voted Bush in anyways.</i></p>
<p>True, but at least then the political machinations (<i>coup d&#8217;etat</i> for those fluent in Cheese-eating-surrender-monkeyish) would have been more blatant than the Miami &#8220;Rent&#8217;A'Riot&#8221; by Republican staffers flown in by the Dubya campaign.</p>
<p>When you&#8217;re hot, you&#8217;re hot.  One out of three.  Maybe you should try for multiple choice; you&#8217;d start at 25% by chance and could work up from there.</p>
<p>Cheers,<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057570', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dave in Boca: &quot;Strap on a pair of frontal lobes, nitwit.&quot;

Dave, I guess this is what passes for an argument in your section of the asylum common yard. Again, all you need to do is read the consortium report to find out that I am correct. If all the votes in Florida had been counted under any of the approved standards, Gore would have won Florida. Here&#039;s the link again, Dave:  http://www.aei.org/ docLib/ 20040526_KeatingPaper.pdf


Scroll down a few pages to the table called &quot;Statewide results&quot;. And, then can the b.s. about IQ. You have no real grasp of the facts in this case.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dave in Boca: &#8220;Strap on a pair of frontal lobes, nitwit.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dave, I guess this is what passes for an argument in your section of the asylum common yard. Again, all you need to do is read the consortium report to find out that I am correct. If all the votes in Florida had been counted under any of the approved standards, Gore would have won Florida. Here&#8217;s the link again, Dave:  <a href="http://www.aei.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.aei.org/</a> docLib/ 20040526_KeatingPaper.pdf</p>
<p>Scroll down a few pages to the table called &#8220;Statewide results&#8221;. And, then can the b.s. about IQ. You have no real grasp of the facts in this case.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057540', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: daveinboca</title>
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		<dc:creator>daveinboca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Warrant Officer Jack Ripper displays his IQ of 54 relentlessly.  CNN is hardly a neutral source, no matter what it says.  And the Gore-bot threw away Tennessee and Arkansas because they know him for the fraud &amp; BS machine that he is.

Bush won in Florida, which wouldn&#039;t have mattered had Gore won his native state!

Strap on a pair of frontal lobes, nitwit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Warrant Officer Jack Ripper displays his IQ of 54 relentlessly.  CNN is hardly a neutral source, no matter what it says.  And the Gore-bot threw away Tennessee and Arkansas because they know him for the fraud &amp; BS machine that he is.</p>
<p>Bush won in Florida, which wouldn&#8217;t have mattered had Gore won his native state!</p>
<p>Strap on a pair of frontal lobes, nitwit.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057495', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: daveinboca</title>
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		<dc:creator>daveinboca</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course, the Florida SC was a bunch of Dem party hacks. And a recount showed Bush had a plurality.  And the US HOuse of Rep would have voted Bush in anyways.

Souter is a typical self-absorbed monomaniac who should have packed it in and made the SCOTUS a more honorable institution.  What a crock!

The Democrats regard the US Constitution as an obstacle in their project to turn America into a nanny-state.   And talk-radio and the First Amendment are on their agenda for elimination---as is the right to bear arms.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course, the Florida SC was a bunch of Dem party hacks. And a recount showed Bush had a plurality.  And the US HOuse of Rep would have voted Bush in anyways.</p>
<p>Souter is a typical self-absorbed monomaniac who should have packed it in and made the SCOTUS a more honorable institution.  What a crock!</p>
<p>The Democrats regard the US Constitution as an obstacle in their project to turn America into a nanny-state.   And talk-radio and the First Amendment are on their agenda for elimination&#8212;as is the right to bear arms.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057489', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Arne Langsetmo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arne Langsetmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#57 Mr. President:

&lt;i&gt;Seven justices (the five Justice majority and Breyer and Souter) INITIALLY agreed upon review that there might be Equal Protection issues in using different standards of counting in different counties. Although seven ended up determining there was indeed an Equal Protection violation, especially due to the fact that different standards are always used to count votes in a presidential election, only five agreed the recounts should stop.&lt;/i&gt;

False.  The cowardly &lt;i&gt;per curiam&lt;/i&gt; falsely claimed that &quot;[s]even Justices of the Court agree that there are constitutional problems with the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court that demand a remedy.&quot;  This is a lie.  Souter and Breyer &lt;i&gt;both&lt;/i&gt; stated that no remedy was demanded and in fact said the case should never have been taken (and are rather ambivalent as to whether there actually was any &quot;constitutional problem&quot; in the first place, saying that any that &lt;i&gt;might&lt;/i&gt; arise could be best handled in other fashion, you know, like &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; there was an actual factual basis to work from?).  For instance, here&#039;s Breyer:  &quot;And the more fundamental equal protection claim might have been left to the state court to resolve &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;if&lt;/b&gt; and when&lt;/i&gt; it was discovered to have mattered.&quot;  They &lt;i&gt;both&lt;/i&gt; dissented.  Not &quot;concurring as to part I&quot; (see the final sentence there) but &quot;dissenting as to remedy&quot;.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#57 Mr. President:</p>
<p><i>Seven justices (the five Justice majority and Breyer and Souter) INITIALLY agreed upon review that there might be Equal Protection issues in using different standards of counting in different counties. Although seven ended up determining there was indeed an Equal Protection violation, especially due to the fact that different standards are always used to count votes in a presidential election, only five agreed the recounts should stop.</i></p>
<p>False.  The cowardly <i>per curiam</i> falsely claimed that &#8220;[s]even Justices of the Court agree that there are constitutional problems with the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court that demand a remedy.&#8221;  This is a lie.  Souter and Breyer <i>both</i> stated that no remedy was demanded and in fact said the case should never have been taken (and are rather ambivalent as to whether there actually was any &#8220;constitutional problem&#8221; in the first place, saying that any that <i>might</i> arise could be best handled in other fashion, you know, like <i>after</i> there was an actual factual basis to work from?).  For instance, here&#8217;s Breyer:  &#8220;And the more fundamental equal protection claim might have been left to the state court to resolve <i><b>if</b> and when</i> it was discovered to have mattered.&#8221;  They <i>both</i> dissented.  Not &#8220;concurring as to part I&#8221; (see the final sentence there) but &#8220;dissenting as to remedy&#8221;.</p>
<p>Cheers,<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057230', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Karim</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/comment-page-2/#comment-4057202</link>
		<dc:creator>Karim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I feel Justice Souter&#039;s pain.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel Justice Souter&#8217;s pain.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057202', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lescoeurs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/comment-page-2/#comment-4057158</link>
		<dc:creator>Lescoeurs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It was the day the music died.  We may never recover and guys like Karl Rove, David Addington, Ledeen, Feith, adnaseum; and the eventual winners because of the tragic decision could give a shit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was the day the music died.  We may never recover and guys like Karl Rove, David Addington, Ledeen, Feith, adnaseum; and the eventual winners because of the tragic decision could give a shit.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057158', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Billy Hill</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/comment-page-2/#comment-4057149</link>
		<dc:creator>Billy Hill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://covenantnews.com/dec13.htm

Game over................next!</description>
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<p>Game over&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.next!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057149', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/comment-page-2/#comment-4057122</link>
		<dc:creator>Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jazzist: &quot;â€œHowever, the double votes on both butterfly and caterpillar ballots were clearly invalid under any interpretation of the law.â€&quot;

Even this is a distortion. The local federal judge in Broward country was, according to him, about to call for counting the &quot;overvotes,&quot; in which a voter not only marked the box, but wrote the candidate&#039;s name on the ballot as well. His decision was that in these cases, there was clear voter intent. If they count these votes, Gore picks up about 8,000 more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jazzist: &#8220;â€œHowever, the double votes on both butterfly and caterpillar ballots were clearly invalid under any interpretation of the law.â€&#8221;</p>
<p>Even this is a distortion. The local federal judge in Broward country was, according to him, about to call for counting the &#8220;overvotes,&#8221; in which a voter not only marked the box, but wrote the candidate&#8217;s name on the ballot as well. His decision was that in these cases, there was clear voter intent. If they count these votes, Gore picks up about 8,000 more.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057122', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/comment-page-2/#comment-4057118</link>
		<dc:creator>Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d like everyone to keep in mind that our mainstream media looked at this report, saw the statewide results and then, almost universally, printed articles with headlines like &quot;Study shows Bush would have won.&quot;

Can any Bush cultist explain why a &quot;liberal media&quot; would have obscurred and hidden the real results of this study in this manner?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d like everyone to keep in mind that our mainstream media looked at this report, saw the statewide results and then, almost universally, printed articles with headlines like &#8220;Study shows Bush would have won.&#8221;</p>
<p>Can any Bush cultist explain why a &#8220;liberal media&#8221; would have obscurred and hidden the real results of this study in this manner?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057118', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/04/souter-nearly-resigned-after-bush-v-gore-decision/comment-page-2/#comment-4057111</link>
		<dc:creator>Ret. Col. Jack Ripper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jazzist, again, go look at the actual NORC report. I&#039;ve provided the link. Scroll down to the table called &quot;Statewide results&quot; and see for yourself. This table counts ballots using the approved standards and lists the 4 different standards. By all standards and NOT COUNTING any disputed ballots, Gore wins every time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jazzist, again, go look at the actual NORC report. I&#8217;ve provided the link. Scroll down to the table called &#8220;Statewide results&#8221; and see for yourself. This table counts ballots using the approved standards and lists the 4 different standards. By all standards and NOT COUNTING any disputed ballots, Gore wins every time.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4057111', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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