Hillary sums up our botched Presidential election perfectly in Living History. Here she is writing about Justice Scalia granting a stay which stopped the counting of ballots in Florida on December 9, 2000:

"Continuing the recount, according to Scalia, might cause "irreparable harm" to Governor Bush. Scalia wrote that counting the ballots might "cast a cloud upon what [Bush] claims to be the legitimacy of his election." His logic seems to be: Counting the ballots must be stopped, because the ballots might show that Bush did not win after all."

Doesn't this make you absolutely livid? She continues:

"The majority said Florida's recount standard, requiring any ballot to be counted if it reflected the clear intent of the voter, was not specific enough because it could be interpreted differently by different vote counters. Their solution was to deny the right to vote to all citizens subject to the recount, no matter how clearly their ballots were marked. Amazingly, the Court carefully warned that "[o]ur consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities." They knew the decision was indefensible and had no intention of letting its reasoning be applied to other cases. It was just the best argument they could come up with on short notice to achieve the result they had already decided to impose."

If this doesn't just make your stomach turn I don't know what will. I can only hope that people get off their asses and vote against Bush and the sneaky lawlessness he represents next year. I think the only thing that makes my stomach turn more than the Florida "recount" is the thought of this guy in the White House for four more years.