"When we praise what the Palestinians do on security, it is meant to send a signal that progress is underway, and it is progress toward a two-state solution.
VOA: standard.2009.11.02
As an affair of the state, Obama must send the signal that the days of free handouts to oil are over.
This could send a signal that, Bush v Gore notwithstanding, the justices still consider that state election disputes are not a matter for the highest court in the land.