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Wow. I have this short list--very short list--of people for whom my compassion runs
so low, that mustering even a modicum of sympathy for their passing, timely or otherwise, is very difficult. You could throw a couple of Cheneys in there, maybe a Schlafly and a couple of televangelists. But Antonin Scalia, long-serving Supreme Court Justice is on that list. I'm reminded that he was very good friends with fellow justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, so I'll keep that in mind, and remember that he's got a family, and they might have had warmer feelings for him than I do. Maybe. So, I'll give them all my sympathy But I'm going to have difficulty working up a tear.
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FOX "News" was in such a hurry to get this story out,
that they only managed a sentence, and a faulty headline.
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Now, all eyes will turn to the nominating process, and whether or not the US Senate will try to run out the clock so that President Obama doesn't get a third justice on the bench. I think it would be tremendously bad form, for there is absolutely no reason they should stall other than playing politics. But the stakes for the presidential election just shot through the roof. And the delicacy of the
language that the candidates, pundits and other politicians use around the situation could prove daunting. I say, wait for Donald Trump to say something crass before saying
anything but the most boilerplate statements. Then, carefully guide the issue to one of fairness, justice, the American way. Don't play politics, the Senate must do its duty, etc., etc. Force the Senate to do their jobs.
We'll see.
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Well, at least you didn't Photoshop Scalia's picture.
ReplyDeleteNah. I didn't look for a bad one either, and that would have been easy. I still think he was awful, awful, awful. But sometimes entertaining, what with the angle bargle and other colorful phrases. His dissents always seemed to be more interesting than his majority opinions.
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