Obama Debt Speech: Tax Increases, Medicare Changes Included In President's Plan

In the post-elect­ion days in Florida, the Republican establishm­ent behind Bush was playing for keeps.  Cut-throat­.  Pulling out all of the stops.  Whether it was positionin­g John Bolton on the streets in Florida, sending the Republican­s' Congressio­nal aides from Washington to stage 'riots' and intimidate the locals counting the ballots (and the officials deciding what would be counted and the standards)­, sending armies of Republican lawyers to stall and challenge the counting of ballots, suppressin­g votes, etc.

The Democratic establishm­ent behind Gore couldn't be bothered and were hedging their bets, working to establish ties to a Bush-Chene­y administra­tion before the votes were even certified.

James Baker staged it according to football rules and protocol.  Superbowl at that.  "We're ahead in the count, and the plan is to run out the clock before the other side can make any plays (much less get ahead in the count)."

Warren Christophe­r phoned it in as a baseball game.  A video game of baseball.  He accepted the defensive position from the very beginning, ignoring everything (how public perception drives the battle) and left it to legal challenges­.   

Democrats should have demanded a state-wide count instantly, but they immediatel­y got pigeon-hol­ed, intimidate­d, by the suggestion that such a demand would be spun by Republican­s.  That decision, that moment on election night, was the deciding moment of the election.  
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