From the Annals of  If Only You Could Turn Back the Clock –   In 2001, after an extremely close and hotly contested election, Vice President Al Gore presided over a joint session of Congress that certified Texas Governor George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000 Presidential election.  The decision came two months after the election due to a heavily-criticized Supreme Court decision ending Gore’s attempts to have Florida recount  disputed ballots. Gore became the third Presidential candidate to win the popular vote but lose the election after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to halt Florida’s manual recount. The ruling in effect gave Florida’s 25 electoral votes to Bush giving him 271 to Gore’s 266 exactly one more than needed to win the election.  Bush’s two-term presidency ultimately ended in disaster with two unfinished and costly wars and an economy closing in on a depression.  He is consistently ranked near the bottom in the all-time worst presidents category.   He now paints dogs at his home in Dallas.