Justice's wife launches 'tea party' group .

LaTimes ^ | 03/14/10 | Kathleen Hennessey

[American Dream 246]

The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court. Reporting from Washington As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action. "I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you," she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama's "hard-left agenda." But Thomas is no ordinary activist.

[Balding_Eagle]

Thanks for the background

[is_is]

tag

[what's up]

Go Virginia!!

[Servant of the Cross]

"A High-Tech Lynching for an uppity Black."

From 'My Grandfather's Son ...
Ken Duberstein, a Washington lobbyist who had volunteered to help steer me through the confirmation process, called the next morning to say that Joe Biden wanted to talk to me before the vote. I called the Judiciary Committee cloakroom, and after a brief wait, Senator Biden came on the line. I held the receiver sideways so that Virginia could hear him speak as we stood together in the kitchen. The senator said that he was torn over his decision and had actually brought two statements with him to the committee meeting that day, one for me and the other against. He had decided to oppose me. He’d voted to confirm Justice Scalia, he explained, and now regretted it; he thought it was possible that I might turn out like Justice Scalia, so he couldn’t vote for me.

“That’s fine,” I said. “It doesn’t matter to me whether I’m confirmed or not. But I entered this process with a good name, and I want to have it at the end.”

“Judge, I know you don’t believe me,” he replied, “but if any of these last two matters come up, I will be your biggest defender.” (The other matter to which he was referring was the leak of my draft opinion.)

He was right about one thing: I didn’t believe him.

[Arrowhead1952]

Actually, it was posted about 12 hours ago with about 50 replies.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470633/posts

[kcvl]

Kathleen Hennessy

She has been a picture editor for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1998. Before coming to San Francisco, Hennessy was a Knight Fellow at Ohio University, where she received a Masters in Journalism.

Before entering graduate school, Hennessy was a picture editor at the White House, under the Clinton Administration. Prior to that, her staff positions included director of photography for the Washingtonian Magazine in Washington, D.C. and a picture editor for USA Today.

Hennessy has been a past lecturer at the International Center for Photography in New York, taught picture editing at Ohio University and is currently teaching at San Francisco State University. She received her Bachelor’s degree in photography from Arizona State University.

[kcvl]

Kathleen Hennessey

[Sherman Logan]

Thomas Sowell also wrote: “It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon—that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.”

Bears repeating.

The highest praise most intellectuals can bestow on a work of art or book is to call it "transgressive."

Which is just another way to say it mocks or shocks people's beliefs. So the easiest, more and more the only, way to gain status among these morons is to mock and shock.

This is, of course, a wasting asset, as with each new transgression the standard of transgressiveness must go up. Eventually it becomes impossible to achieve this effect.

[who knows what evil?]

I never have luck with the ‘search’ feature at this place...

[Chode]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks American Dream 246.

The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court. Reporting from Washington As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action. "I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you," she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama's "hard-left agenda." But Thomas is no ordinary activist.

So, Zero, *now* what do you think about your moronic comments during your moronic State of the Union?

[Marty62]

Since when do wives have to sit mute, due to her HUSBANDS profession?

[Carley]

God bless the Thomas family.

[El Gato]

Uh oh. Liberal heads will EXPLODE.

Normally I'd say we could give them a few rolls of duct tape. But in this case, I say, let 'em explode.

What ever happened to a woman having a public life independent of her husband's job?

And she's part of a "diverse" couple. Sort of like BO's alleged parents, but with brains.

[Ronbo1948]

You mess with the bull, you get the horn.

[Oceander]

Re: Justice’s wife launches ‘tea party’ group
Dear Ms. Hennessey;
This article is nothing but “yellow journalism.” You would never say this about an ACLU lawyer, or attack Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Sonia Sotomayor in this way. In fact there were a number of times Ginsburg should have recuse herself for a conflict but didn’t, where were you then? You are nothing more that a Marxist propagandist. The left has far more scandals that your biased press fails to even mention. Where is this type of story on Nancy Pelois’s booze cruses, where she spends $1,000 each week on booze when traveling from Wash. DC to Cal.?
And frankly you are an idiot, for you have not researched either the US Constitution or the Tea Party groups. Gee how shocking a Supreme Court Justice that wants to follow the US Constitution in steady of pushing a Socialist agenda.
As for your love of Socialism let me ask you this: Liberals never gets the most obvious question: Why has the Left killed 100 million people in the 20th century, according to French Marxist historian Courtois and his team? The Left must be made to answer: why does its blind “idealism” and its unquenchable power-craving lead to such disastrous results, over and over again? Why does the British medical system have patients parked on gurneys in dirty hallways? Why are their waiting times for life-saving operations so much longer than ours? Why does Prime Minister Gordon Brown advocate using your organs after you die, without your permission?
Thomas Sowell also wrote: “It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon—that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.”
R. Exton

Wow! Very succinctly, and powerfully, put! Thanks!

[Carley]

Reminiscent of the evil way Sam Alito was called a racist by the kennedy cabal during his hearings.

[Carley]

Let’s be honest about it. Hilary Clinton never ever interjected herself in to the political process when First Lady.

[Marty62]

You mean her hugging Arafats wife and praising the Palistinian “efforts” on peace wasn’t politics.
Or HILARY CARE wasn’t a huge interjection. How short the memories.

[Outlaw Woman]

What ever happened to a woman having a public life independent of her husband's job?

That's just for the left doncha know...