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Ax: 'Good exchange' with Franken | POLITICO 44 David Axelrod, speaking late yesterday to C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers,” interviewed by C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut and The Wall Street Journal’s Gerald Seib: — On his closed-door clash with Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who argued that President Barack Obama should have taken a more insistent role on health reform: “We had a very good exchange. He expressed his feelings about this. I thought [I] responded very candidly to him. And it was a good airing of views. … I think people would like the president to … snap fingers and finish this out. We have a system: You have to have a certain number of votes to pass a bill. … And it is not something that you can do by command or by ordinance of the president of the United States. It takes some work, and we’re working through it. I’m encouraged by what I see.” Axelrod invoked Stuart Smalley, a lisping self-help guru that Franken used to play on “Saturday Night Live”: “At the end of it, as I was watching Sen. Franken, I thought to myself: However this turns out, I’m good, I’m smart, and doggone it, people like me.’ So I was OK with it.” Smalley YouTube — On the administration's handling of accused terrorists: "This isn't new. We haven't invested anybody with one more right than they had before we took office. And we're actually not behaving any differently than the last administration did. Which raises the question: Is this about politics, or is it really about dealing with the issue at hand?" — On differences, reported in The New Yorker, between Attorney General Eric Holder and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, on the method of trying Sept. 11 conspirators: “Rahm … looks at things from a legislative perspective. He looks...
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