The Court of Supremes issued a new tape today and it looks like mud. I didn't like their first release and the press that followed, but that is another story. This time round, the legalities may make moot the actual count. Maybe its time to call for "A Day of Moons" volunteers? Running down what I think of the group individually is not of any good purpose, but to say that the only appointee younger than me (Clarence the Clod) stood moot. (No brainer...he has no brains!) As for the candidates, the least said the better. From all the truly dumb crap emoting from all concerned, I figure this country deserves whatever happens. But, I am pulling for Gore. Still...from what the Tilden-Hayes contest evidently had, this could go on for a very long time to come. A "hunnert years ago", they thought they had cleaned up the process, BUT, like campaign reform after Nixon-McGovern, we are again reminded that "no good turn goes unpunished!" About the Leiberman resignation thing: this is only in the event that Gore were to win the Presidency. Somewhere in the back of my memory is a faint recollection that the Vice President is sworn in somewhere other than the Capitol building an hour or so before the new President. I guess that is for security reasons, since the entire country will explode into outer space if we do not have a Head of State. Anyway, the Senate is locked up 50-50 with Leiberman elected with Dodd to represent Connecticut. The governer of that great state is a Republican and has stated he will appoint a Republican if Joe gives up his seat to be Vice President. My point is that he should not because doing so will give the Republicans both houses of Congress, leaving nothing but the "bully pulpit" of the Presidency to initiate bills that could be expected to pass Congressional muster (like the Budget). Else, the mess that Knute Ging-rich made a couple years ago that shut down the federal government (but not really) is certain to come from the likes of De-lay, Are-me and the Mississippian. If Joe gives up his Veep office before being sworn in, Big Al names whomever he wants. Who? Buncha names like Harry Reed (Minority Senate Whip), Diane Feinstein (California), or that sandy haired guy who whant to be Speaker. In Reeds case, not good. Republican govenor again. Feinstein would be fine (and she is Jewish besides). I personally would name Bill Clinton just to spite the frigging Republicans. Talk about a Constitutional crisis!