Should somebody with such a grudge be allowed to sit on the Supreme Court... [View All]

Really now, the new and mightily indignant tome allegedly penned by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (are we sure Hannity didn't scratch out this screed on the back of old Fox News talking points) comes as somewhat of a shock to liberals and progressives. It should rankle the rest of the political spectrum, but what they hey, he did give them W.

New York Times Columnist Frank Rich puts it best in these two paragraphs from his sunday column....

It's useful to watch Mr. Thomas at this moment, 16 years after his riveting confirmation circus. He is a barometer of what has and has not changed since then because he hasn't changed at all. He still preaches against black self-pity even as he hyperbolically tries to cast his Senate cross-examination by Joe Biden as tantamount to the Ku Klux Klan assassination of Medgar Evers. He still denies that he is the beneficiary of the very race-based preferences he deplores. He still has a dubious relationship with the whole truth and nothing but, and not merely in the matter of Anita Hill.

This could be seen most vividly on "60 Minutes," when he revisited a parable about the evils of affirmative action that is also a centerpiece of his memoir: his anger about the "tainted" degree he received from Yale Law School. In Mr. Thomas's account, he stuck a 15-cent price sticker on his diploma after potential employers refused to hire him. By his reckoning, a Yale Law graduate admitted through affirmative action, as he was, would automatically be judged inferior to whites with the same degree. The "60 Minutes" correspondent, Steve Kroft, maintained that Mr. Thomas had no choice but to settle for a measly $10,000-a-year job (in 1974 dollars) in Missouri, working for the state's attorney general, John Danforth.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/opinion/07rich.html?em&ex=1191988800&en=1e333d89536557eb&ei=5087%0A

Danforth was, like Thomas and that other infamous favored son, W., all graduated from Yale....

One has to ask if Justice Thomas, an oxymoron if ever there was one, may have dug deep into to his anger at liberals in general and democrats in particular, to justify his vote to stop the recounts in FLA...

He is a dangerous man with abundant power who is playing some kind of warped reverse race card to reek vengeance on those who questioned his qualifications to sit in judgment on all of us...