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In writing Friday's article on the Demorats' “gunning” for Justice Thomas, we we cited a letter from Rosylnn R. Mauskopf, Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Court's to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, explaining the “personal hospitality exception” to 5 U.S.C. ¶ 7573.
We thought it suspiciously curious that Mauskopf's letter referred to an inquiry from Senator Whitehouse, dated 21 February 2023, concerning the same “personal hospitality” exception. That inquiry meant that prior to the “bombshell” Pro Publica report on Thomas' vacations, somebody on Capital Hill was nosing about the Supreme Court's regulations concerning “gifts”.
In our mind, the inference was plain: the Democrats on the Hill and their scribblings in the media were out to get Thomas and, once he fell, Alito. The only problem was that two dots do not a connection make.
What I mean by this is simple. Two dots make a correlation, but something more is needed to flesh out either a cause or a conspiracy. In my case, that “cause” was my general historical knowledge of how humans behave in the political arean. Simply put, read enough and you get good a smelling shit.
But convincing others requires more than bragging “I am good at this stuff.” Well, as fate would have it the third point was published just this weekend, Truthout, a progressive on line source, which ran a headline entitled:
Lawmakers Urge Chief Justice Roberts to Probe Clarence Thomas’s Secret Trips
calls mount for Thomas to be investigated after accepting millions in undisclosed gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow.
HERE
calls mount for Thomas to be investigated after accepting millions in undisclosed gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow.
HERE
Ho, ho, ho, ho ho-ooh. And who might those “lawmakers” be perchance?
Breathlessly, Truthout reports that: “In a letter led [sic] by” Whitehouse... the Democrts ... cited Thrusday's BOMBSHELL REPORT by Pro Publica....” etc.
Cunningly omitted was the fact that Whitehouse had been sniffing at the base of this bomb, at least, since February. The utterly fake narrative thus presented was that intrepid journalists from Pro Publica had uncovered a scandal, and now, the stunned and surprised Democrats were indignantly calling for an investigation.
Not, not and NOT. Not only does the letter “led” by Whitehouse confirm that he was looking for indignation back in February, it reveals without doubt that the Demorats and their scribblings in the media began circling their prey in June of 2011 (see links on page 2 of the letter.)
In that month Think Progress ran a story entitled:
Ah yes... the ubiquitous “linked to” so favoured by cops lying in their search warrant affidavits.... The essence of this scurrilous report was:
Other than this flagrant misstatement of fact, nothing in the article supports an inference that the American Enterprise Institute gave anything of value to Thomas.
Then, after falsely stating that it had, Think Progress back pedaled, with “To be clear, there is no direct evidence that Crow lavished gifts on Thomas in order to switch his vote in any of these cases. “
What Think Progess can't stand is that think-alike conservatives associate with one another and, in doing so, inform and support one another's outlooks. That is true but exactly the same might be said of the Democrats, of any one, and even of Marxists!!!
What it all boils down and stacks up to is that the Demorats are now embarked on a contrived and coordinated campaign to smear Thomas off the bench.
We have never argued that the Supreme Court should be “above politics.” The Supreme Court is eminently a political institution. To think or argue otherwise is just plain stupid. But it is a politics grounded in the constraints of grammar and logic as distinct from that other politics which is grounded in number and power.
The Democrats are degrading both. In consistently, resorting to trumped up scandals and repeated calls for the impeachment of their opponents, the Democrats are turning the politics of compromise and consensus into political bloodletting. They will rue the day; and, if they don't, then we will.
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“In a letter led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (...)
Breathlessly, Truthout reports that: “In a letter led [sic] by” Whitehouse... the Democrts ... cited Thrusday's BOMBSHELL REPORT by Pro Publica....” etc.
Cunningly omitted was the fact that Whitehouse had been sniffing at the base of this bomb, at least, since February. The utterly fake narrative thus presented was that intrepid journalists from Pro Publica had uncovered a scandal, and now, the stunned and surprised Democrats were indignantly calling for an investigation.
Not, not and NOT. Not only does the letter “led” by Whitehouse confirm that he was looking for indignation back in February, it reveals without doubt that the Demorats and their scribblings in the media began circling their prey in June of 2011 (see links on page 2 of the letter.)
In that month Think Progress ran a story entitled:
Second Harlan Crow Connected Group Has a Perfect Litigation Record Before Justice Thomas
Ah yes... the ubiquitous “linked to” so favoured by cops lying in their search warrant affidavits.... The essence of this scurrilous report was:
Harlan Crow ... donates the American Enterprise Institute.It was worse. What Think Progress actually wrote was: “AEI filed at least three briefs in the Supreme Court after giving Thomas this very expensive gift.”
The American Enterprise Institute filed briefs in the Supreme Court.
Crow gave gifts to Thomas.
Q.E.D.
Other than this flagrant misstatement of fact, nothing in the article supports an inference that the American Enterprise Institute gave anything of value to Thomas.
Then, after falsely stating that it had, Think Progress back pedaled, with “To be clear, there is no direct evidence that Crow lavished gifts on Thomas in order to switch his vote in any of these cases. “
What Think Progess can't stand is that think-alike conservatives associate with one another and, in doing so, inform and support one another's outlooks. That is true but exactly the same might be said of the Democrats, of any one, and even of Marxists!!!
What it all boils down and stacks up to is that the Demorats are now embarked on a contrived and coordinated campaign to smear Thomas off the bench.
We have never argued that the Supreme Court should be “above politics.” The Supreme Court is eminently a political institution. To think or argue otherwise is just plain stupid. But it is a politics grounded in the constraints of grammar and logic as distinct from that other politics which is grounded in number and power.
The Democrats are degrading both. In consistently, resorting to trumped up scandals and repeated calls for the impeachment of their opponents, the Democrats are turning the politics of compromise and consensus into political bloodletting. They will rue the day; and, if they don't, then we will.
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