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The Only Graphic That Matters. Please distribute widely. (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 May 2012 OP
Excellent! ZombieHorde May 2012 #1
K&R nt abelenkpe May 2012 #2
Remember, Scalia has the same health plan as zbdent May 2012 #3
Yep. progressoid May 2012 #4
This may be the biggest issue this November. longship May 2012 #5
I'd expect scalia to stick around - WAAAAAAAAY past his prime. Just because. calimary May 2012 #7
I vote we give Scalia a new nickname: Louie DePalma. TrollBuster9090 May 2012 #8
I'd argue most of the blue is probably purple. n/t Gore1FL May 2012 #6
K & R n/t Tx4obama May 2012 #9
I've only heard about Ginsburg (2016) thinking of retiring, not Kennedy and Scalia - got a link? Tx4obama May 2012 #10
I don't have a reference for that, no. TrollBuster9090 May 2012 #12
Uh, yeah. Warren DeMontague May 2012 #11

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
3. Remember, Scalia has the same health plan as
Wed May 30, 2012, 03:58 PM
May 2012

Thurmond did ... and probably the same provider of new hearts as Cheney ...

longship

(40,416 posts)
5. This may be the biggest issue this November.
Wed May 30, 2012, 04:55 PM
May 2012

But, does anybody think Scalia will retire during an Obama admin? So I dunno if the graphic would apply if Obama wins.

calimary

(81,098 posts)
7. I'd expect scalia to stick around - WAAAAAAAAY past his prime. Just because.
Wed May 30, 2012, 07:02 PM
May 2012

Because he feels some sort of pseudo-messianic mission is at work here to ensure that the Supreme Court remains horridly CONservative. AND because he's just that arrogant. This guy wrote the book on arrogant! But make no mistake - he won't go willingly til there's a republi-CON in the White House. He won't risk his replacement being named by a Dem. He's THAT partisan. It'd have to be some illness or family crisis or some such thing over which he has no control, that forces him to resign before he damn well feels like it. He won't go voluntarily, just because he might be WAY old enough.

Don't misunderstand - I DO NOT wish him ill. But I sure wish he'd step down. Get that really disgraceful and utterly Troglodyte mentality and agenda OFF the high bench. And wouldn't he love to go on the mashed potato circuit and cash in with speaking engagements and book deals galore?

Hey fat tony, ALLLLLL THAAAAAATTTTT AWAAAAAAAAAAITS YOOOOOOOOO... All you have to do is step down and pony up. All your rich little friends on the wrong-wing extremist "think tank" and "foundation" scene would welcome you with lucrative fellowships and elder-statesmen positions and seats on all their boards of directors. They'd practically canonize you at Liberty "University"! They'd appoint you president of the whole works by acclamation! Regent "University" too! You'll be richer than trump! You won't have to waste another minute of your precious time suffering all those annoying nuisance arguments put forth by attorneys and Solicitors General from the enemy camp while you sit on the bench and sneak your game of Angry Birds or text somebody you're not supposed to, or jerk off under your robes every day. AND you can hide in the shadows of the "private sector" instead of being in a public-works crucible that all the newspeople keep track of, and you can have all the privacy and wheeling/dealing you can eat. Which, as we know from the size of your ego and the history of your appetite, is quite substantial.

C'mon, tony. DO IT. DO IT NOW while you're still pretty healthy and have a lotta livin' yet to do! Go! The world's yer oyster! Think of how fat the fat tony retirement fund will engorge and all the ways you can go out and have fun spending it, and there'll always be more! That CONservative fan base just won't quit and Pox Noise will be riiiiight (LOL, get it?) there beside you, just stokin' those fires! You'll be richer than the kochs! And you'll be out of range of all those idiotic critics and stupid do-gooders - they won't care about you anymore and they'll forget all about you. Outta sight, outta mind, dontchaknow.

C'mon, tony. DO IT. You know you want to...

TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
8. I vote we give Scalia a new nickname: Louie DePalma.
Wed May 30, 2012, 07:58 PM
May 2012

"The Affordable Health Care Act? I haven't seen a mess like that since somebody stuffed a firecracker up my uncle Emilio's parrot!"



I think you're right, he's never going to resign. Not when one of the perks of his job is to drill peep holes into Sotomayor's dressing room so he can watch her changing into her robes.

TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
12. I don't have a reference for that, no.
Thu May 31, 2012, 07:40 AM
May 2012

I think whomever made the poster was just speculating based on age. However, to be honest, I'm guessing that if Obama is re-elected the first one to go will be Ginsburg (due to poor health), but she'll be quickly followed by THOMAS, not Kennedy or Scalia. Thomas will piss off out of there like greased lightning, one step ahead of Eric Holder who'll be holding a subpoena for his financial records. Maybe I'm just an optimist, but my feeling is that after Obama is re-elected his administration will actually start going after corporate crooks, corrupt bankers, and corrupt politicians. They haven't done it yet because they don't want to appear to be scary and radical before the election, but once they don't have to face re-election again I think it will embolden them. No reason at all why they can't present old Clarence with an indictment for 20 years of TAX EVASION behind closed doors, and then allow him to resign instead, to avoid the impending scandal.

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