Clarence Thomas Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief with Weiner Downfall

[kpete]

Clarence Thomas Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief with Weiner Downfall


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.

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But with the 2012 elections nearing and the possibility that the Democrats could either win back control of the House or substantially boost their numbers there, the Thomas's financial double dealing and shadowy political ties could easily have been back on the political table. Weiner showed intense interest in Thomas's doings, and his public hectoring of Thomas during the health care debate about his financial dealings sent a mild signal that Thomas at some point could be fair game for a probe. That would have done much to further expose the financial, legal, and moral misdeeds by conservatives that the GOP routinely sweeps under the rug.

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

[xchrom]

1. True, that. Nt

[CrossChris]

2. And after the scorched earth media push against Weiner, no one will mess with a conservative judge

The message has been sent---bring up a real critique against a conservative judge, or open up the can of worms on "judicial insider trading", and this is what will happen to you.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Seriously, Clarence Thomas' claim to fame is that he's the first black man

the Republicans went to bat for. He's so teflonated it's going to take someone as pure as Jesus Christ to expose him.

[NorthCarolina]

4. Sad but true. F*@k the ConservaDems that forced Weiner out. nt