I find it funny that nobody’s asked the following obvious question:

Why would a right-winger like Murdoch need to buy Clarence Thomas’s vote?  Who buys votes they already are assured of? There’s no REASON for Thomas to “sell out” to the nutty right--he’s already there, there’s nothing to corrupt.

Now if you told me some LEFT-leaning group paid Thomas to vote against his ilk, THAT would be a “Man Bites Dog” story.

No, if Murdoch needs to buy a justice it’s got to be Anthony Kennedy, not Thomas.  Kennedy now all alone decides the most important political cases--with Thomas, Scalia, Roberts and Alito voting as a block, and Souter, Ginzberg, Breyer and Stevens standing against them, Kennedy alone is the decision maker--HE is the one you need to buy.

Lifetime appointments to the court should be immediately nullified.

104206 by Lemeritus on 10/02 at 6:25 pm

“I just… want… my country back.”

which country was that?

Where women didn’t have the right to vote?
Where children were considered “Chattel?”
Where blax sat at the rear of the bus and never “raised their eyes” to a white man?
Where we subjugated populations around the globe?
Where we killed to obtain natural resources?

The Bushes didn’t do it, this country has always lacked justice for the poor, the minority, and the powerless.

I want a new country with peace, justice and non-interference as the founding principles.

I’m with JamesNimmo, DennisD, and Rage, especially the observation that capitalism is running the democracy show here in America. We sit at home cussin’ about it, but that’s about all we can afford at the moment. The good news is most of us can’t afford this stupid book.

Rage makes the money shot, though. We were so gung-ho to get an African American on the bench of that court, we completely overlooked this nut’s political history and past. The world knew nothing about this man when he was suggested to Congress as candidate for justice. All we saw was he was black.

Justice Marshall had jump-started us with his civil and human rights progress to move America forward. It’s why the current administration refers to Justice Marshall as an activist judge. Republicans got out the memo to stop approving Marshall’s type when they confirmed Thomas. Clarence Thomas is the prototypical Republican judicial appointment, with his compromised sexual history and long record of uneven and poor treatment of anyone who is not a white male. Clarence Thomas has a long record of accomplishments requisite for maintaining membership in the Republican Party. This book is evidence that this miserable reprobate is lost.

In America, everything is for sale. We call it crapitalism. The rich and well connected swear by it and the rest of us just swear at it.
In the end it all comes down to the Golden Rule - they who have it rule but since they’re such a small percentage they only rule as long as we allow it.

Just when are enough of us going to get out and say we’re not going to put up with this crap anymore and take it back.

Clarence Thomas is still brooding over who puts pubic hairs on his soft-drink cans.

With the inconsistencies in his book concerning Anita Hill as pointed out and refuted by Ms. Hill, one has to wonder how Thomas is able to summon the focus of mind to write Supreme Court legal opinions on his own or to direct his court clerks in the process.

With the leisure of time, the access to skilled ghost-writers, and surely some supporters to proof read his manuscript, Thomas was still unable to pave over the pot holes of his mind drilled by the chips on his shoulder.

One is left with the assumption then that Thomas’s opinions are written wholly by staff.
He had barely 18 months as a judge before being appointed by Bu$h I to take the African-American seat of Thurgood Marshall.

Is there nothing the Bu$hs can’t disassemble to their benefit and the detriment of the citizens, be it the Supreme Court or New Orleans, Louisiana?

Thomas is famous for rarely speaking from the bench during Court arguments and now we have irrefutable evidence what he’s really thinking about: He’s still brooding over who puts pubic hairs on his soft-drink cans.

I’ve always felt Clarence Thomas’ nomination for Justice on the Supreme Court, just so America could boast another Black judge replace Justice Thurgood Marshall, was a slap in the faces of America, particularly the faces of African America who has yet to see Clarence Thomas as a member of the African American community. We needed the next justice for our highest court to be more progressive, not just an appeasing black face to attempt to pacify the African American community. Black folks don’t see Thomas as the personification of justice or blackness. For what America wound up getting in this colored man, Congress could have qualified Idi Amin.

America was blessed with a golden opportunity to disqualify Thomas when Attorney Hill rightly accused him of sexual harrassment on the job. Still, Thomas made it through the Congressional guantlet anyway! Congress came to regret their endorsement, but not before this action sent the message that American women are as devalued here as nations of woman are in any other patriarchal society. In light of this accustation, if Thomas was not going have the dignity to graciously take himself out of consideration, Congress should have scrapped his application. Congress dumped Bork just for having Nixon tethers. Thomas was a proven on-the-job sex offender. Any sexually deviant boob who will licentiously subjugate any report does not deserve consideration for a promotion. This numbskull actually thought his humorless ridiculous claim of hairs sprinkled on a soda can being the pubic hairs from the direct report he was hoping to seduce was a harmless office joke. Using duct tape and celophane to seal eight or nine 20-pound bags of packing popcorn into a coworker’s cubicle is an inane office joke. This hair-on-the-can foul was technically and categorically sexual harrassment contributing to the creation of a hostile work enviroment. Thomas was publicly and officially BUSTED, and consequently unfit to be a Supreme Court Justice! He really should have been fired from the Justice Department.

What is stunning is that this jerk actually collected enough source material from his wretchedly lackluster existence to write an entire book. Then again, having sold his soul to Rupert Murdock, he really had to piece together a couple thoughts. This late in the evening, he probably had nothing else to rave on about on which he was a greater authority than justifying his having so pitifully been his grandfather’s bitter hateful ingrate son. Clarence Thomas is a craven coward of a sell-out and a deviant sex offender. He’s an empty, sad little man who hates everything about himself and his past. That he and Miss Virginny are vanely attempting to positively spin his mendacity in a way that is supposed to shame Anita Hill into recanting her accusation and apologizing for causing them such stress tellingly betrays his dismal reality. Thomas’ appointment to the Supreme Court should have been his greatest and most pleasurable accomplishment in life. Instead, it’s a barren dry place in his miserable existence where the satyrs of his chagrin dance to the desolate moans of his consternation.