As you know, our country is sick. Many of our friends and neighbors have succumbed to a peculiar form of mental illness known as teabaggery? It’s been traveling, like a virus, through the population for about a year now, and, I’m sad to report, it’s finally reached the U.S. Supreme Court. According to reports in the press today, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence “Is that my pubic hair on your Coke” Thomas, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, has come out as a proud Tea Party patriot. Here’s a clip from the LA Times:
…”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.
She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and she has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court.
In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative “core principles,” she said…
Maybe it’s just me, but isn’t this the equivalent of a left-leaning Supreme Court Justice announcing that her husband believes that our last few Republican presidents were blood-drinking reptilian humanoids from outer space?
I mean, I know it’s a free country, and she should be able to do whatever she wants, but isn’t there a line somewhere that shouldn’t be crossed? Is it OK if she starts wearing an Obama-as-the-Joker t-shirt? How about if she starts making comments about how Obama is having ovens built in which to kill Christians?
It’s also worth noting that Thomas is counselor to the President of Michigan’s ultra-conservative Hillsdale College. (Prior to joining Hillsdale, she worked at the Heritage Foundation, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.)
Oh, and here’s my favorite part of her official bio: “She is intrigued by Glenn Beck and listening carefully. She also enjoys motor homing and watching ’24′.”
