Clarence Thomas Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief with Weiner Downfall

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Clarence-Thomas-Can-Breath-by-earl-ofari-hutchin-110616-550.html

Every Democrat from the White House down screamed loudly for New York Representative Anthony Weiner to resign, and he finally did. But it's not a Democrat that's breathing the biggest sigh of relief at Weiner's downfall. It's Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. There was much talk a year ago that Weiner would be the point man on the House Judiciary Committee if it decided to go after Thomas for his long trail of financial manipulations, abuse, and duplicity. Weiner gave some hope that he'd be the go to guy against Thomas because he had been hammering him publicly on his dealings and demanding that he recuse himself from any high court deliberations and ruling on the constitutionality of the health care reform law that conservative's loathe.

Weiner certainly had a lot of ammunition to make Thomas's misdoings a prima facie legal and political embarrassment for the GOP. This stemmed from Thomas's wife Ginni's mini-king ransom earnings she received from assorted right wing foundations and think tanks. The Heritage Foundation, was a prominent funder of Ginni as well as the ultraconservative Koch brothers, the Coors family and Richard Mellon Scaife, all of which have a major interest in any number of Supreme Court rulings.


Thomas did disclose her earnings. He did not disclose speaking fees and perks he got from a bevy of the same conservative groups that his wife worked for and had close political ties to. And then he refused to acknowledge her involvement with Liberty Central.
Then there was the strong hint that Thomas perjured himself in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his court confirmation hearings in 1991 and that he compounded that by lying under oath to Congress during the hearings.

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Now Thomas and the GOP doesn't have to worry about that. Thomas's potential tormentor is out of the House and Democrats seem pretty much content to put the Weiner and the Thomas matter behind them. Thomas can now safely breathe a big sigh of relief at that.

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:sarcasm:

You do realize it takes Republican votes, too?

Just watch how this Boehner thing goes...

The bus runs both ways.....

Did he call for his indictment?

If not, then the worst you can say is "he said mean things".

A sign of relief, indeed...

If you haven't noticed, Republicans don't generally care if people say mean things about them.

and the pickle faced moralists played right into their hands.

and they got lucky. The same will happen to the next person that challenges Beltway corruption.

Sure enough Obama has said more about Weiner's little mistakes than he has about the real crimes Thomas is accused of.

And evidently we all recognized the dangers in attacking the right wing's

"ace in the hole" vote that gave them W and other rightwing decision, but

that didn't occur to Weiner?

the pubic hair king ---remember all that?

and---not to divert here---but what's the deal with bill o'reilly being so upset about what weiner did---when he was basically guilty of the same type of thing--ala the falafel? i'm just waiting for alan colmes or juan williams ( yeah, i know- they're wimps) to bring that up--billo would shut them up in a nanosecond!