Snatching Up The Fallen Standard

On to Thomas!

Er, well, that didn’t exactly work out as hoped. Our knight went down, felled by his own sword, so it falls to us to take up the banner and press forward, riding through the countryside ringin’ those bells and shootin’ those guns, or lances or quoits or suchlike also, to remind the populace of real crimes that actually affect them. These real crimes are concealed beneath not simple grey ring-spun but the intricate folds of Clarence Thomas’s judicial robes, and they’re not just the ones you’re thinking of, either, or even those other ones you might be thinking of, though lord knows they’re all scheevy enough.

There’s actually more to the conflicted Clarence story than just his serial sexual harassment, his “forgetting” to disclose his wife’s earnings for twenty years, and the money she has made while forming two comically different-yet-awfully-alike, wonderfully opaque groups sharing the same Grishamesque mail drop (great Protect Our Elections YouTube, with creepy soundtrack and sekret kam, via bradblog) trying to defeat the HCR bill, the constitutionality of which her husband is due to consider.

As detailed by Karoli at C&L way back in February, and Brad Friedman in this excellent post at Bradblog, twenty years ago, during the Thomas confirmation hearings, a certain group took out over $100,000 worth of pro-Thomas ads targeting obstinate anti-Thomas senators. You might have heard the name: Citizens United.

The Citizens United decision spawned so much outrage in so many directions, that while this aspect of Thomas’s clear conflict-of-interest was noted at the time, it certainly wasn’t splashed all over the way it would have been had the dick involved been more than metaphorical. It seems the job of correcting that publicity injustice is currently up for grabs, so here’s to doing our little, grabby part.

Posted by Mrs. Polly on 06/11/11 at 03:34 PM • Permalink

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Well, our current national Weiner roast has done what no other item could for the past ten years, nearly turned me away paying any attention to politics, at least for the longer short term.

Thomas is a skunk and a thief and a liar with a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. Short of dead girls or live boys found in his bed, he can, like the rest of the robed masters of the universe, thumb his nose at all of us, and do pretty much what he pleases.

Hell, with today’s GOP, they could find the shriveled corps of Jummy Hoffa in his bed, and he’d likely get a medal from his fellow wingnuts.

Might as well buckle in Mrs Polly, the stoopid is just beginning, and next I predict, we will engage, once again, on a national snipe hunt for the Whitey Tape, or something else real or imagined. Nobody cares about anything unless there is a bare nekkid pecker with a politician connected it.

BTW, that collage image is gonna give me nightmares, I just know it. :)

Comment by General Stuck on 06/11/11 at 05:09 PM

@Stuck, I avoided politics for several day because of Weiner’s weiner, and I’m becoming increasingly pissed off about it. It’s just discouraging how much attention Weiner has gotten and how swept under the rug the whole Thomas ethics business has been.

And, I agree that the collage is nightmare-inducing.

Comment by asiangrrlMN on 06/12/11 at 12:28 AM

that collage image is gonna give me nightmares

Can I help it if the past two weeks has been a game of political Snakes and Ladders?

Just trying to move us all down the road. Now don’t make me stop this thread and turn it around, particularly considering the objects in the rear-view mirror. ;o}