Clarence Thomas's Wife Calls Obama A Tyrant

[democracy1st]

Activism of Thomas’s Wife Could Raise Judicial Issues

As one of the keynote speakers here Friday at a state convention billed as the largest Tea Party event ever, Virginia Thomas gave the throng of more than 2,000 activists a full-throated call to arms for conservative principles.

For three decades, Mrs. Thomas has been a familiar figure among conservative activists in Washington — since before she met her husband of 23 years, Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court. But this year she has emerged in her most politically prominent role yet: Mrs. Thomas is the founder and head of a new nonprofit group, Liberty Central, dedicated to opposing what she characterizes as the leftist “tyranny” of President Obama and Democrats in Congress and to “protecting the core founding principles” of the nation.

It is the most partisan role ever for a spouse of a justice on the nation’s highest court, and Mrs. Thomas is just getting started. “Liberty Central will be bigger than the Tea Party movement,” she told Fox News in April, at a Tea Party rally in Atlanta.

But to some people who study judicial ethics, Mrs. Thomas’s activism is raising knotty questions, in particular about her acceptance of large, unidentified contributions for Liberty Central. She began the group in late 2009 with two gifts of $500,000 and $50,000, and because it is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group, named for the applicable section of the federal tax code, she does not have to publicly disclose any contributors. Such tax-exempt groups are supposed to make sure that less than half of their activities are political.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/us/politics/09thomas.html?_r=2&hp
via: huffingtonpost

[ensho]

1. and what shall we call her? hhhmmm. . . . .

traitor

[lunatica]

2. They always use such patriotic titles don't they

'Liberty' this, 'Freedom' that, 'American' whatever,

It's becoming so obvious that I get suspicious every time I see an organization name itself with patriotic jargon.

[tularetom]

3. Or "Family" nt

[AndrewP]

14. We had a radio station here called "The Flag"

Guess what? It's a right wing douchebag station! What a shock!

[CoffeeCat]

4. Clarence Thomas officiated Limbaugh's wedding...

and is a close, personal friend of Limbaugh's. Limbaugh often discusses
his friendship with Thomas and his wife, and how he has them over for intimate
dinners frequently.

Makes you want to puke.

[ensho]

5. don't it

nt

[Darth_Kitten]

6. Which one? All?

:shrug:

[CoffeeCat]

13. I know that Thomas officiated...

Limbaugh's wedding to Marta (don't remember her last name). She was an aerobics
instructor. They divorced and I think Limbaugh is on #4 now.

[Darth_Kitten]

17. Aerobics instructor? No wonder the marriage failed.

:)

[Kookaburra]

7. Projection

[felinetta]

8. Largest TP event.....2000 people. Is that supposed to be an impressive number?

[felinetta]

9. I want to add the Cheney /Scalia duck hunting trip. Here is part of

the article from CBS Jan 17 2003
Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of last week duck hunting together at a private camp in southern Louisiana, just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force, the Los Angeles Times says in its Saturday editions.
While Scalia and Cheney are avid hunters and longtime friends, several experts in legal ethics questioned the timing of their trip and said it raised doubts about Scalia's ability to judge the case impartially, the newspaper pointed out.
But Scalia rejected that concern Friday, telling the Times, "I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned."

[DirkGently]

10. She a real wingnut. Disturbing.

[FirstLight]

11. Thomas should be removed from the bench

unacceptable behavior.

[MadMaddie]

15. Considering that he has not asked a question in 4 years

and Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomoyer have both asked more questions than he has. He should be removed from the bench for failure to do his job.

[Bitwit1234]

12. You know I just can not understand the mental deficiency

of these republicans. In no way is Obama a tyrant. he hasn't taken over the presidency like his predecessor and wrote Executive Order after Executive Order saying he would not follow the laws passed by congress. He did not INVADE a neutral country and send 9billion dollars in CASH to Iraq which disappeared. And would certainly close the gap of some of the deficit. And Obama who has done nothing outrageous by writing Executive Orders defying the law or INVADING neutral countries is called a tyrant.

This woman should be arrested she is doing this illegally. And her husband should be impeached. The thing is the DOJ has a wet noodle for a head and he won't do anything to any republican.

The republicans are going to continue to call us names, defy the law, and do all the illegal things they are doing, whether we go after them and prosecute them or not. SO DAMN IT WHAT IN THE HELL IS THE DOJ WAITING FOR.

[spanone]

16. mrs clarence the mute