This week delivered a bracing lesson from the School of Unintended Consequences when news broke that Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni, had felt moved, nearly two decades down the road, to "reach across the airwaves" and leave a voice mail for Anita Hill, asking for an apology. She didn't get one, but she did unleash a torrent of pubic-hair-on-a-Coke-can flashbacks, and inspired Justice Thomas' ex-girlfriend Lillian McEwen, a former prosecutor and law professor, to break her 19-year silence and talk about her "freewheeling sex life" with Thomas in the early '80s, as well as his porn "obsession" and fascination with large-breasted women. Oops. Chastened, Ginni Thomas canceled an interview with NPR, while her new Tea Party-inspired group, Liberty Central, walked back claims that Obama's health care law is "unconstitutional." I guess she never heard the expression: "Let sleeping Long Dongs lie." In the words of Ginni: "Okay, have a good day."
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I recall being glued to the TV watching a brave young woman describe a classic case of hostile work environment. I also recall the Ms. Hill's treatment by some of the members of the committee. Certain members' behavior and comments were reprehensible, assuring those who would really think about it that she wouldn't have placed herself in that most public situation, making herself vulnerable to further attacks of a different sort, unless her testimony were true. Now it comes out that there were others who could have testified to support Ms. Hill's testimony, showing a pattern of behavior by Mr. Thomas.
It was painful to watch the entire incident, actually a harbinger of other Republican tactics indicative of their willingness to achieve their goals and agenda at the expense of attacking people of character and substance. Ms. Hill was and is a "Profile in Courage".
Impeachment? Count me in.
So I shall say "Hi Arianna" now, and I think she might read it. Thank you for the free place to let us talk. Sorry for the occasional whining about 'pending comments'. We get so indignant, you'd think we were paying dues. wunderground.com, my weather site, charges me 5$ a year to have no ads. I pay it gladly. I also feel comfortable writing them to complain when it is cloudy for a few days.
Anyway, Hi and thanks. ("Let sleeping long d&ngs lie"....haha)
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In fact, Clarence Thomas went beyond towing the Party line. He repaid Bush the Father by casting a deciding vote (5-4) in Bush v. Gore to hand the 2000 election to Bush the Son.
Many African Americans were against him getting on the Supreme Court then......
For almost 20 years, Thomas has sat on the Supreme Court like an empty block of wood taking up space and voting for whatever pleases his benefactor, George HW Bush.
The only one in those hearings with integrity and strength was Anita Hill.
There is so much rotteness between the tea baggers, Fox News, the Thomases and garbage in general, so who knows what's going on behind the scenes if the cr*p that is public is this sordid. Imagine what we don't know, yet.
http://www.blackcommentator.com/54/54_cartoon_female_clarence_pf.html
THAT SHE IS TRYING TO GET HER HUSBAND IMPEACHED
To get even for all the years of living with the lies
"Uh, hon...I finally called your ex today. Would you like to hear what I said? Hello? Hello?"