Clarence Thomas’ Wife Is Part Of The Tea Party
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Of course she is.
The brand of faux resentment and self-inflicted paranoia practiced by the tea party should remind her a lot of her husband.
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God forbid POTUS or Congress mention SCOTUS in anyway once justices are
ordainedinstalled. But politics for Mrs. Supreme Court Justice? By all means. What a frackin’ farce the whole ‘impartiality’ thing is.Didn’t know he was married to Donna.
The brand of faux resentment and self-inflicted paranoia practiced by the tea party should remind her a lot of her husband.
Could who speaks both liberal and reality translate that sentence for me, please?
Could someone who speaks both liberal and reality translate that sentence for me, please?
Use dictionary.com for any words you’re unfamiliar with or aren’t in your vocabulary.
Yeah, thanks DA. I’m ok with the words, just not how they’re put together in a meaningful sentence. Do you have any idea just what that means, or are you afraid to take a stab at it?
by “faux resentment” I imagine he means indignation on the basis of false premises or an incorrect perception of reality. Either that or resentment that is not truly felt but aped up for rhetorical purposes (e.g. Thomas griping about “lynching” at his confirmation hearings).
by “self-inflicted paranoia” I imagine he means the invention (again, either unconsciouly or consciously for rhetorical purposes) of imaginary enemies to cast one’s self as a victim of persecution (e.g. tea partiers and FEMA camps, Acorn, socializzzzzummmmmm, etc.)
Does that help?
“Obama appointed communists like Ben Bernanke and Robert Gates”-Mrs. Thomas
The entire conservative movement reminds me of an eight-year-old in the back of the car holding his finger about an inch away from his five-year-old sister and saying “I’m not touching you! I’m not touching you!”
Faux resentment, Wilbur. You mean like pretending to be outraged that the wife of a US Supreme Court judge is active politically, but not outraged when a Supreme Court nominee to be an actual judge was a Leftist activist and a board member at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education fund who many times said “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would, more often than not, reach a better conclusion…..than a white male who hasn’t lived that life”?
Is that what he meant be faux resentment?
And self-inflicted paranoia, is that like being offended when the LA Times is described as being liberal media, such that they’d somehow feel for mere survival purposes to be bailed out by the leftist/statist agenda of the Obama Administration that it might be in their interests to write said hit-piece on Clarence Thomas’ wife at this very moment of national importance.
That kind of self-inflicted paranoia, Wilbur?
I am shocked and appalled to discover that Justice Thomas’ wife is a conservative.
I think it’s only fair that all justices be single — well, the conservative ones, anyway.
/sarcasm
The brand of faux resentment and self-inflicted paranoia practiced by the tea party should remind her a lot of her husband.
Could who speaks both liberal and reality translate that sentence for me, please?
I believe Oliver is referring to the fact that Thomas has expressed a strong opposition to affirmative action and civil rights legislation, even though he is by far the most prominent beneficiary of racial politics in American history. He was nominated to the Supreme Court to replace Thurgood Marshall, the only African-American ever to sit on the Supreme Court, after just one year on the federal bench because that one single year was enough to make him the only even marginally qualified candidate who was also (a) black and (b) staunchly conservative and vehemently opposed to the expansion of civil rights. A longtime Objectivist, he seems to view himself as a Randian hero whose natural brilliance is always being dragged down by the “moochers” and “looters” in the African-American community who disdain him for petty offenses like making much harder for future African-Americans to get into law school. Oliver sees a parallel between that attitude and the hysteria among the Teabaggers who think their country has been stolen away by some amorphous minority conspiracy led by a black man who couldn’t possibly have become President through legal means because that would mean that everything the Teabaggers believed about race was wrong.
Faux resentment, Frank.
Always the the Blue Plate Special special on the liberal menu.
I’m not surprised that Mrs. Thomas is politically active. I was certainly well aware of her Heritage Society membership and her active employment by the Bush campaign back in 2000, because if Clarence Thomas had been a jurist with any character instead of a Republican apparatchik, he’d have recused himself, Gore would have become President, and our slow-motion national suicide over the last 10 years might have been avoided. I am a bit surprised that she feels comfortable aligning herself openly with the Teabaggers, since by doing so she unavoidably brings herself into alignment with its more radical members. If she’s going to be this politically active, then I think it’s fair to ask her whether she agrees with the Teabagger loons that the President of the United States is a communistic Muslim Kenyan who wants to destroy America. And if she says “yes,” then I think it becomes a fair question to ask Justice Thomas whether he agrees.
Conservative equals tea bagger now? Thanks for finally admitting it.
Haha, Dennis can’t even do snarky right.
This is one of those situations where you have to feel sorry for a guy like Clarence Thomas who married a woman who obviously doesn’t have a real job or was never prepared for a real career.
. You mean like pretending to be outraged that the wife of a US Supreme Court judge is active politically,
He’s not outraged, he’s mocking the fact that she’s joining up with such a hackish outfit. And I’m laughing at the fact that her career has been such a big fat zero in her life that she’s reduced to begging for corporate cash by piggy-backing on the tea bagging movement in a desperate bid for attention. I mean, seriously, obviously this person is a derelict and a failure– much like many Republicans’ political and social lives, but that’s neither here nor there. But that’s what Republican activism is — a movement which takes the intellectual and moral dregs of society and makes them feel important by getting them to advocate for immoral beliefs.
@Dennis
I would suggest that you are demonstating self-inflicted paranoia right now. Bravo for making plain your understanding of it!
@Marco
I point you to her website, which shows itself to be affiliated with Tea Party Patriots.
Can’t get plainer than that, can it?
High comedy:
…and corporations. “Fellow citizens and corporations,” she means. Got to love them Republican grass roots. So grass rootsy.
Doesn’t this show without a doubt that “Justice” Thomas is not an impartial judge? That he is in fact the dreaded “activist judge”?
Faux resentment, Wilbur. You mean like pretending to be outraged that the wife of a US Supreme Court judge is active politically, but not outraged when a Supreme Court nominee to be an actual judge was a Leftist activist and a board member at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education
Perhaps, with the exception that the PRLDEF is a legitimate organization doing good work for people who need help. The teabag outfit is a bunch of crazy wingnut whiners.
And self-inflicted paranoia, is that like being offended when the LA Times is described as being liberal media, such that they’d somehow feel for mere survival purposes to be bailed out by the leftist/statist agenda of the Obama Administration that it might be in their interests to write said hit-piece on Clarence Thomas’ wife at this very moment of national importance.
Can someone translate that from right-wing loonish for me?
Clarence Thomas is not an Objectivist unless he has recently changed his mind. Your credibility just dissolved.
I think your problem might be that someone who speaks reality did translate for you, what you need is someone to explain it in wingnut paranoia. I’m not really fluent, but I’ll give it a shot:
Just as Clarence Thomas has been persecuted by racist liberals who resent his success and actively seek to destroy the constitution, his wife Ginni fears the current administration and it’s allies in congress seek to persecute patriotic Americans and trample on their rights.
On conservative blogs, this line of reasoning is likely to devolve into comments speculating as to whether the Army or the National Guard will be willing to assist Obama in declaring martial law once the citizen’s revolt becomes too unruly.
Mrs Thomas just “coincidentally” is now going to benefit enormously as a result of the ruling just supported by her husband that allows corporate entities to donate huge sums of money to her enterprise.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!!!! MOVE ON!!!!
I thought conservatives were against activism?
Outraged? Nope. Amused that the wife of a supreme court justice is part of a movement that doesn’t know dick about our system of government.
Clarence Thomas is not an Objectivist unless he has recently changed his mind. Your credibility just dissolved.
He talks about the impact that Rand’s writings have had on his life in his autobiography. He famously makes his law clerks watch that awful adaptation of The Fountainhead where Gary Cooper is hilariously miscast as Howard Roarke.
I’m curious why as a member of a group of people you claim are racists who can’s stand the idea of a black man in the White House, and in whom their opposition to HCR is based on their innate racism, that you haven’t called Ginny Thomas a racist.
I’m curious why you feel a need to distort and lie about Oliver’s positions on those issues.
On second thought, check that, I’m not curious – I know all I need to know.
What, Wilbur, you think Oliver doesn’t think Tea Partiers are racists?
What position did I distort and lie about?
Sorry…everyone is missing the main point here. I don’t care how hard core tea baggy she gets. She can staple tea bags all over her body. She can profess to be the most dedicated tea partier ever. She can out-crazy Bachmann and Palin combined…This isn’t going anywhere. This organization will not have any impact…Why? This is a white woman is married to a black man. And THAT is not how those tea bag folk roll…just sayin.
Indeed.
well, all the conservative judges are Catholics so they should be single like their priests.