Monday Open Thread

Welcome to your Monday open thread. Well, I made it through the Superbowl. Events like that are tough when you’re dieting because events = food.

Michele Bachmann thinks she would be a good president. She’s even telling us her top priority:

“I take my first political breath every morning with one thought in mind — repeal Obamacare. That’s my motivation in life. This bill is something else. It is the crown jewel of socialism. President Obama, and I’m willing to say it, ushered in socialism under his watch…my opinion is we can’t shut this president down fast enough.”

– Rep. Michele Bachman (R-MN), quoted by the Missoulian.

Clown.

Justice Clarence Thomas can’t wait to cash in on his own rulings. His wife, Ginni Thomas, has a new career – as a lobbyist to Congress.

Now, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has recast herself yet again, this time as the head of a firm, Liberty Consulting, which boasts on its website using her “experience and connections” to help clients “with “governmental affairs efforts” and political donation strategies.

Thomas already has met with nearly half of the 99 GOP freshmen in the House and Senate, according to an e-mail she sent last week to congressional chiefs of staff, in which she branded herself “a self-appointed, ambassador to the freshmen class and an ambassador to the tea party movement.”

But her latest career incarnation is sparking controversy again.

Thomas’s role as a de facto tea party lobbyist and — until recently — as head of a tea party group that worked to defeat Democrats last November “show a new level of arrogance of just not caring that the court is being politicized and how that undermines the historic image of the Supreme Court as being above the political fray,” said Arn Pearson, a lawyer for Common Cause, the left-leaning government watchdog group.

Thomas should resign. Of course, Common Cause is right – Clarence Thomas doesn’t care and he’s not worried about being impeached.