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David Axelrod: A surprising request from Justice Scalia
CNN ^ | 2/14/16 | David Axelrod

Posted on 02/14/2016 4:11:46 PM PST by sakic

When the shocking news of Justice Antonin Scalia's passing hit Saturday night, my mind raced back to a White House Correspondents Association dinner seven years ago, when we were seated together.

We bantered about my hometown of Chicago, where he had taught law before ascending to the bench. He opined on wine and music and generally lived up to his reputation as a man who told and enjoyed a good story.

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To: MLL

Everyone knows that Scalia would have wanted a staunch Conservative. No one has said otherwise, but under the conditions, which Scalia understood, it makes sense that he would want someone he liked and respected.


61 posted on 02/14/2016 5:18:43 PM PST by sakic
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To: MLL

Everyone knows that Scalia would have wanted a staunch Conservative. No one has said otherwise, but under the conditions, which Scalia understood, it makes sense that he would want someone he liked and respected.


62 posted on 02/14/2016 5:18:44 PM PST by sakic
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To: MLL

Everyone knows that Scalia would have wanted a staunch Conservative. No one has said otherwise, but under the conditions, which Scalia understood, it makes sense that he would want someone he liked and respected.


63 posted on 02/14/2016 5:18:44 PM PST by sakic
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To: MLL

Everyone knows that Scalia would have wanted a staunch Conservative. No one has said otherwise, but under the conditions, which Scalia understood, it makes sense that he would want someone he liked and respected.


64 posted on 02/14/2016 5:18:46 PM PST by sakic
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To: MLL

Everyone knows that Scalia would have wanted a staunch Conservative. No one has said otherwise, but under the conditions, which Scalia understood, it makes sense that he would want someone he liked and respected.


65 posted on 02/14/2016 5:18:47 PM PST by sakic
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To: MLL

Everyone knows that Scalia would have wanted a staunch Conservative. No one has said otherwise, but under the conditions, which Scalia understood, it makes sense that he would want someone he liked and respected.


66 posted on 02/14/2016 5:18:48 PM PST by sakic
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To: sakic

Scalia would have seen in a second what a Piece of Shit Axelrod is and wouldn’t have given him the time of day.

Axelrod is trying like a little bitch to build a narrative, for when Atty General Cruz comes for his sorry azz.


67 posted on 02/14/2016 5:19:38 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: sakic

Wow.

Did my computer go wild.


68 posted on 02/14/2016 5:20:10 PM PST by sakic
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To: sakic

I was speaking of Axlerod. Only a creep like him would make up lies.


69 posted on 02/14/2016 5:21:02 PM PST by MLL
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To: TBP

I knew Axelrod in a previous life. He likes collies. Young ones.

L


70 posted on 02/14/2016 5:25:10 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Dr. Ursus

He’s not even honest enough to be a democrat liar!


71 posted on 02/14/2016 5:32:28 PM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: sakic

And you can bet your behind that if Scalia actually said that then Obama would NEVER have nominated her. Because that’s how Obama works.


72 posted on 02/14/2016 6:01:26 PM PST by sheana
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To: Doogle
I think you maybe have intended to write "rabid" instead of rabit.

Meanwhile, although I do agree with your [unstated] stance against torture (just a little sly joke there, if you don't mind --what good would that do at this point anyway) we do need to find way to quarantine the most rabid of the behind-the-scenes manipulative socialists liars who insist we all be forced to quaff (and pay for) communism by the drink.

If more government control is the answer, I am persuaded we need to reformulate whatever question(s) it was that led to that answer=have somebody else do it, and pay for it too.

If we keep "progressing" down the same road we've been on under Obama (and his advisers such as the Chicago Socialist Axelrod) then form of slavery of the masses (if not politically connected, employed by government, or else wealthy enough to pay into all the assorted and highly stealthy pay-to-play schemes the community organizer-in-chief has been playing both ends against the middle of) ...is just around the bend.

You could say that we're pretty much there already, but it can get worse, oh you betcha'.

73 posted on 02/14/2016 6:47:24 PM PST by BlueDragon (TheHildbeast is so bad, purty near anybody should beat her. And that's saying something)
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74 posted on 02/14/2016 6:56:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: sakic

You can say that again.


75 posted on 02/14/2016 7:02:18 PM PST by IncPen (There is not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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To: sakic

Dems in Senate passed a resolution in1960 against election year Supreme Court appointments
By Thomas Lifson

Read it and weep, Democrats. The shoe is on the other foot. David Bernstein at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog:

Thanks to a VC commenter, I discovered that in August 1960, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution, S.RES. 334, Expressing the sense of the Senate that the president should not make recess appointments to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a breakdown in the administration of the Court’s business. Each of President Eisenhower’s SCOTUS appointments had initially been a recess appointment who was later confirmed by the Senate, and the Democrats were apparently concerned that Ike would try to fill any last-minute vacancy that might arise with a recess appointment.

The GOP opposed this, of course. Hypocrisy goes two ways. But the majority won.

As it should this time.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/dems_in_senate_passed_a_resolution_in1960_against_election_year_supreme_court_appointments.html


76 posted on 02/14/2016 7:26:44 PM PST by GOPJ (Hillary has 416 'superdelegates'... Bernie has 14... Wake up democrats - the election's rigged.)
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77 posted on 02/14/2016 7:27:52 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: dp0622

We’re alum, Axelrod and myself. Stuyvesant class of 72. He was pretty much an avowed communist back then from what i remember. To be fair (not myself)it wasn’t totally out of bounds back then with Viet Nam going on.


78 posted on 02/14/2016 10:58:22 PM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: Spunky

I don’t understand why people find it hard to believe.


79 posted on 02/14/2016 11:01:27 PM PST by wiggen (#JeSuisCharlie)
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To: wiggen

you guys ever play Wagner or Farrell in football :)

and yes, that was about the time commie was in.

HECK, i worked in nyc only several years ago and people who made six figures said they were communists :)


80 posted on 02/14/2016 11:08:56 PM PST by dp0622
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