Scalia on Florida 2000: "Get Over It!"

For six years we've been treated to all sorts of noise from the wacky left about the Florida 2000 recount. "Bush was selected, not elected" and "Bush stole the election" ad nauseum. Some of the justices involved in the Bush v. Gore case are speaking out about their decision:

Three of the five Supreme Court justices who handed the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000 say they had no choice but to intervene in the Florida recount.

Comments from Justice Anthony Kennedy and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor are in a new book that was published this week. Justice Antonin Scalia made his remarks Tuesday at Iona College in New York.

Scalia, answering questions after a speech, also said that critics of the 5-4 ruling in Bush v. Gore need to move on six years after the electoral drama of December 2000, when it seemed the whole nation hung by a chad awaiting the outcome of the presidential election.

"It's water over the deck - get over it," Scalia said, drawing laughs from his audience. His remarks were reported in the Gannett Co.'s Journal-News....

"A no-brainer! A state court deciding a federal constitutional issue about the presidential election? Of course you take the case," Kennedy told ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg in her new book, "Supreme Conflict."

Kennedy said the justices didn't ask for the case to come their way. Then-Vice President Al Gore's legal team involved the courts in the election by asking a state court to order a recount, Kennedy said.

The best book on the Florida recount that I've ever read is Bill Sammons "At Any Cost" which you can still find on Amazon. He gives a blow-by-blow account of the legal and P.R. machinations attempted by Gore and his associates and is guaranteed to rile you up all over again as you read it. It's a must read prior to the '08 election.