The example of Carl Rove takes precedence. When the
U.S. Congress permits Carl Rove to piss away its order
to testify, of what value is the US Congress?

Carl Rove was simply a “tool” of his string-pullers,
continues to use his intelligence to avoid the truth,
while his string-pullers continue to shield him from
accountability. This will change.

In the case of Anita Hill, she is a bit late, unless
all she wants is publicity.

I’m delighted to see someone remember the Anita Hill case. I had been at home recovering from surgery during that whole disgusting debacle, and watched the ‘trial’ on TV. The condescending attitude of our, now, vice president, Joe Biden; the awful way in which Anita Hill, clearly telling the truth, (what reason did she have to lie after all)  was treated by that all male panel of chauvinists…..
By the way, look at other Republican appointed African American spokespeople.. The conflicted Juan Williams? .. Who by the way, had told me that ‘Clarence Thomas is good folks’ when I expressed to him, horror at the witch hunt taking place…
Uncle Toms all!!
Best Wishes!

Confirmation hearings were a cakewalk back then as compared to now, although patisanship trumped ethics both then and now.  Sexual harrasement wasn’t quite so main-stream back then either.  If “Long Dong Silver” (Uncle tommy-Clarence Thomas) pulled that shit today his career would be over.  He’s stupid, but not that stupid unfortuneately; still without doubt, one of the worst ever to serve on the SCOTUS.

As 50Gigs says, it’s about hatred of women, but it’s also about fear, and conservatives fear everything!  That’s why they are such cowards.  That’s also why they are such control freaks, who live to tell everyone else how to live.  Clarence loves his job for just this reason, and for the same reason is soo unfit for that job! May he drop dead soon or at least get busted humping a minor!

WriterOnTheStorm should know that Supreme Court justices can be and have been impeached for various offenses, real or imagined; and although none has been successfully removed by impeachment, at least one (Abe Fortas) was forced out because of a financial scandal. Article III of the Constitution says that they hold office “during good behavior,” which gives latitude for impeachment on a variety of grounds.
That said, I don’t imagine that Thomas’s possible perjury during his appointment hearing will cause him to be forced out of office.

Why Hill’s testimony no longer matters:

Once you’re in the Supreme Court club, only death can force you out.

I wasn’t sitting in the hearing room, as was Ruth Marcus, but I watched much of
it on television. To me the most telling testimony was the dean of the School of
Law of Oral Roberts University; where Anita Hill taught after she left her
association with Clarence Thomas. He reported that Clarence Thomas visited
the university, and before leaving had breakfast with the dean and his wife; AND
Anita Hill, who the dean invited, knowing nothing about what Anita then
claimed had occurred. He reported that Anita accepted the invitation, appeared
to have a good time, AND offered to, and did, drive Clarence to the airport;
which SHE NEVER WOULD HAVE DONE, if what she testified at the Senate
hearings had taken place.

Further, Clarence testified, and Anita NEVER denied, that while he was
supposedly doing all those terrible things to her, she repeatedly allowed him to
drive her home after work, and come up to her apartment to visit. Something
she NEVER WOULD HAVE DONE, if Clarence had been acting as she claimed in
those hearings.

It was obvious to me at the time, that liberals, especially feminists,
automatically assumed Anita was telling the truth, just because she was a
woman and Clarence was a man; not at all because Anita’s testimony was
presented with a tone, voice quality, and body posture mannerisms that
indicated she was telling the truth. All of her demeanor, to me, obviously
indicated she was lying, out of a personal agenda; based on what she
considered to be numerous past insults. Not necessarily done by Clarence, but
by many men, and Clarence was the fall guy.

There was nothing about that hearing, quite partisan on both sides of the aisle,
that remotely came close to providing an environment where truth was sought.
It is literally impossible, solely based on the testimony that was given, to
determine who told the truth. Only those who have developed discernment can
tell that.

“Because we’re living in a Post Democratic Party Country.”

Obviously. That’s why there’s so many Democrats around.

In fact, we’re living in a post Republican Party country, where the party of law and order, of Lincoln enlightenment, of devotion to Christian principals is degenerating into a force corrupting our most fundamental institutions and values.

They do not know simple geography, much less thoughtful principle.

Standing against this corrupting force is the Democratic Party, unfortunately dependent for effectiveness on the contribution of people who believe horrendous acts committed against women “don’t matter”.

Thomas’ behavior is entirely consistent with the conservative mindset.  Look at the number of religious conservatives who’ve been caught in compromising sexual situations.  The list is long and distinguished.  David Vitter, of DC madam fame, is expected to win another term.  So why should we be surprised when Thomas denied he’d done anything wrong or that his conservative friends supported him.  Hypocrisy is the conservative’s middle name.

Try to understand something for a moment Ruth. What you say what you think, what you write has no value anymore, except of course it’s value to you, and the others like you that you happen to piss off.

Why? Because we’re living in a Post Democratic Party Country. And that means the end of Liberalism and Progessive politics as a meaningful political force.

So whether or not Clarence Thomas said something horrendous to Anita Hill, really doesn’t matter. It may have mattered at one time, but not now. It’s like the bloody spot on the highway that marks a traffic accident that happened 20 years ago.

And why is this? Because above all else progessive politics needs to create victims, and in doing so they have turned this whole nation into a vast wasteland of victims. 

There will be mourners, but to continue with that is to live in the past.

And so what is Anita Hill, but another victim in a country full of victims, because progressives lack political will. And conservatives, will do absoulutely anything to retain political power.

You need to rethink your poltics, it’s over.

“He said that if I ever told anyone of his behavior that it would ruin his career.”

Another example of Thomas not knowing what the heck he’s talking about!

She told and he was not ruined.. He was confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice, not too shabby. And even yet rules over us all in overt and covert ways that will dis-color our lives and freedoms for as long as we exist as a nation.

The perversion of our system of judicial and administrative appointments and confirmations to (short term) political grandstanding and goals is anathema to our republic… on the other hand Thomas, Scalia and now Roberts were, it seems, chosen for their long term roles (Example: keeping Bush, Cheney and their compadre thugs out of jail if ever the Democrats were to grow a pair).

All the ‘little stuff’ (like the Hill testimonies) mostly diverts any real inquiry into the history and qualifications of the judge-to-be. So we get a sort of public lashing of the candidate for things that, in the grand scheme, don’t especially matter.. and then feeling cleansed, we all swallow the poison pill.

Adios!

Even further, what does it say about the conservatives who championed him then, and all the time since then?

Uninformed? Incompetent?

That’s the BEST that can be said.

Modern American conservatism harbors a deep-seated and extreme animosity toward women. It’s revealed in the action of conservatives like those at Operation Rescue. Their drive to “save babies” so completely bypasses all consideration of the mother that she is invisible in the issue.

There is only the self-righteous, who assume for themselves the sole determination of who matters.

It isn’t power. It isn’t control. It’s the darkest imaginable hatred for women, femininity, and female sexuality. Republicans say it themselves. They are the party of the angry male.

Quite.