Clarence and Ginny - Crazy Love!

[Howey]

Now this is what I call eliminationist rehetoric!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703652104576122100035445220.html

'String Him Up'

On Sunday, Common Cause hosted a panel discussion called "Uncloaking the Kochs," which, according to the Common Cause website, "was followed by a rally outside the posh Rancho Las Palmas resort where the Koch brothers were holding one of their political strategy meetings." The Koch brothers' support of free-market causes makes them enemies of "democracy," in Common Cause's view.

Christian Hartsock, a videographer who contributes to Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, attended the Common Cause rally and produced a devastating four-minute video of his interactions with the Common Causer supporters.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ctO7fdrcc&feature=player_embedded

Hartsock: After we impeach Clarence Thomas, what do we do with him? Let's keep it real.
Middle-aged white man with mustache: Put him in--put him in--put him back in the, um--put him back in the fields. I mean, he's a scumbag.
Hartsock: Yeah!
Mustache: He's a dumb sh-- scumbag. Put him back in the fields!


Hartsock: What do you say we do with Clarence Thomas after we impeach him?
Young woman with sunglasses and nose ring 2: Bad things.
Hartsock: Like what?
Nose ring 2: I dunno, 'cause I'm all about peace, but I would say torture

Hartsock: [After] we impeach Clarence Thomas, what do we do with him?
Middle-aged woman with squeaky voice: What do we do with him? String him up. And his wife, too. Let's get rid of Ginny.


There's nothing like calling for the lynching of black man to remind me of the progressive mindset!

Oy #1: Here's a novel and civil way to get rid of illegal immigrants!

http://www.cullmantimes.com/local/x2072622472/Beason-Dems-don-t-want-to-solve-illegal-immigration-problem

Beason ended his speech by advising Republicans to “empty the clip, and do what has to be done”.

Oy #2: Really? Breitbart and Big Gov? The same guys who recently likened "gay conservatives" to "Islamist conservatives"? Real credible...Kinda like the kid they paid to infiltrate Acorn a couple of years back, huh? I wouldn't be a bit surprised when these folks are outed as Breitbart posers...he does have a history for this stuff, doesn't he?

Here's Common Cause's statement regarding this "provocation":

Common Cause’s 40 year history of holding power accountable has been marked by a commitment to decency and civility – in public and private. So we are of course outraged to find that a few of those attending the events around a gathering Common Cause helped to organize Sunday near Palm Springs voiced hateful, narrow-minded sentiments to an interviewer in the crowd.
We condemn bigotry and hate speech in every form, even when it comes from those who fancy themselves as our friends.
Anyone who has attended a public event has encountered people whose ideas or acts misrepresented, even embarrassed, the gathering. Every sporting event has its share of “fans” whose boorish behavior on the sidelines makes a mockery of good sportsmanship; every political gathering has a crude sign-painter or epithet-spewing heckler.

Oy #3: Thomas should be impeached. He and his absolutely nutcase wife are too involved in teabagger craziness for him to even try to be a SCOTUS. Scalia too...

more later...

[ekg]

I want to get more into this Clarance and Ginny thing later because this is really,extremely, troublesome.. and the GOP should be jumping on this just in the name of righteousness.. forget fucking politics for a minute, the precedent they are waiving thru because it benefits them today is massive-danger-land on a scale which we've probably never seen.

seriously, we're talking pope-being-paid-by-french-king-dark-ages shit here. this isn't something to just enjoy and ignore just because you're benefiting from it. and the fact that the GOP is silent.. and almost encouraging, is a disgrace to every person who lost blood fighting for this country. Their lack of comment and outrage, while predictable, is unsettling.

[Howey]

You should be scared:


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47855.html#ixzz1DlaoqYzU

To mark Friday’s anniversary of a court decision that allowed corporations to sink millions into politics, Common Cause, a reform group, is asking the Department of Justice to investigate alleged conflicts of interest involving two Supreme Court justices – in hopes of forcing the court to vacate the 5-4 ruling.

Common Cause officials and at least one legal expert acknowledged the difficulty of getting the landmark case overturned in this way. But in a document to be submitted to the department Thursday, Common Cause President Bob Edgar cites appearances by Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Antonin Scalia at retreats sponsored by Koch Industries, a corporation run by two major Republican donors who helped finance some of the new GOP groups founded after the ruling.

“It appears both justices have participated in political strategy sessions, perhaps while the case was pending, with corporate leaders whose political aims were advanced by the decision,” the Common Cause petition asserts.

In addition, Common Cause argues that Thomas should have recused himself because his wife was the founder of Liberty Central, a conservative group funded with a small group of anonymous donors who endorsed candidates in about a dozen 2010 races.

It’s unknown whether those donors are corporations or individuals, but Virginia Thomas said publicly that she’d accept corporate money in light of the decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Even scarier are comments made by one of the Koch brothers, masterminds behind Citizens United:

“We cannot rely on politicians to do so, so it is up to us to combat what is now the greatest assault on American freedom and prosperity in our lifetimes.”

He also boasted that at the summer 2010 meeting in Aspen, “our group heard plans to activate citizens against the threat of government over-spending and to change the balance of power in Congress this November. In response, participants committed to an unprecedented level of support.”

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[Howey]

I wonder how much money Scalia and Thomas are getting from the Koch brothers for ruling their way?

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/20/scalia-thomas-koch-industries_n_769843.html

They also attended this year's bash:

http://crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/60,4258,16244

At last count 74 members of Congress have joined Rep. Weiner in asking Thomas to recuse himself:

http://www.anthonyweiner.com/conflictedclarencethomas

I'm not even at Crazy Ginny's actions yet. Those will be later...

btw...before it's brought up...Elena Kagan has recused herself from every single case she's been involved on that went to the SCOTUS. How refreshing!

[Howey]

Oops. No wonder he hasn't opened his mouth in four years!

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Discrepancies in reports about an appearance by Justice Clarence Thomas at a political retreat for wealthy conservatives three years ago have prompted new questions to the Supreme Court from a group that advocates changing campaign finance laws.

When questions were first raised about the retreat last month, a court spokeswoman said Justice Thomas had made a "brief drop-by" at the event in Palm Springs, Calif., in January 2008 and had given a talk.

In his financial disclosure report for that year, however, Justice Thomas reported that the Federalist Society, a prominent conservative legal group, had reimbursed him an undisclosed amount for four days of "transportation, meals and accommodations" over the weekend of the retreat.

Just how much has he not filed with the IRS?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_02/028005.php

To be sure, whether Thomas "dropped by" or stayed for four days may seem pretty thin as scandals go, but the fact that he's offered competing versions of events about this retreat matters. Indeed, in this case, Thomas attended an event where powerful conservatives discussed strategies for overturning campaign finance laws. This was soon followed by Thomas participating in a case related to campaign finance laws, and concluded with Thomas ruling to overturn campaign finance laws, giving the Koch Brothers considerably more political power.

If Thomas, as a guest at the retreat, was part of these strategy talks, then maybe he should have recused himself from the case?

For that matter, if Thomas is telling the truth and only "dropped by" the event briefly, why did he seek reimbursement for four days? Was this a gift Thomas failed to report? Or perhaps he claimed these reimbursements in order to evade taxes?

I'm still trying to imagine what the response would be if a similar situation arose with a center-left justice. How quickly would congressional Republicans raise the specter of impeachment?