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He Said What?

In a contest for America’s nuttiest member of Congress, Iowa’s Steve King has to be at the top of the list. Steve King opposes the USDA settlement for discrimination against African-American farmers. His reasoning?

“Figure this out, Madame Speaker: We have a very, very urban Senator, Barack Obama, who has decided he’s going to run for president, and what does he do?” King said. “He introduces legislation to create a whole new Pigford claim.”

He then said the claims — which stem from discrimination against black farmers in the 1980s and 1990s — are “slavery reparations.”

“We’ve got to stand up at some point and say, ‘We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress,'” he said. “That war’s been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there’s no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery. No one’s filing that claim.

The Pigford claimants, he said, “They’re just filing a claim because they think they can get away with it.” Standing up against the settlements, while unpopular, he said, is “a matter of justice and equity.”

Shorter Steve King: Barack Obama is black.

Pre-Chanukah Asshats of the Day

So I’m sitting here chilling to some Celia Cruz (Azucar!) and thought, hey, I haven’t honored anyone lately with an asshat award. And today we have two winners.

Our first winner is Eugene Delgaudio, a Republican representing Sterling on the Loudoun County (VA) Board of Supervisors. I think we all read about Pandora’s experience with the TSA. Basically non-eventful. But Delgaudio takes this asinine reluctance to ensure that our airways are safe to a new level – he uses it to further his homophobic views and raise money for his sham non-profit (he’s probably the only one profiting from it). He claims that the new pat down procedures are part of a “wide-scale homosexual agenda.”

Delgaudio made the comments in a widely distributed e-mail sent in his capacity as president of the conservative nonprofit Public Advocate of the United States.

In the e-mail — reported by WUSA9 — Delgaudio also says the TSA’s non-discrimination hiring policy is “the federal employee’s version of the Gay Bill of Special rights.”

“That means the next TSA official that gives you an enhanced pat-down could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission,” he wrote.

Yeah, I’m sure that’s exactly what the TSA folks are thinking. But this isn’t the first time that Delgaudio has reared his ugly homophobic head.

In a petition urging opposition to The Student Non-Discrimination Act introduced in Congress by Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado, Delgaudio said the bill would turn America’s “playgrounds into homosexual breeding grounds.”

In a fundraising and survey appeal, Delgaudio also reportedly said the homosexual agenda in Congress promotes same-sex marriages and adoptions, which will lead to “men hand-in-hand skipping down to adoption centers to ‘pick out’ a little boy for themselves.”

As an expert homosexual, I can tell you that none of the gay men I know would touch this schmuck, even if he was buying the drinks at the Blue Moon and handing out hundred dollar bills. I look at his picture and all I can think of is CLOSET CASE! Maybe Down-low David knows him.

And for one final time, here is the Real Gay Agenda:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGaShCWbcE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Our second winner,Texas State Representative Leo Berman is just your average run-of-the-mill birther, but one who holds elective office. This is what we would have in Sussex if Crazy Eileen ever ran for something and managed to win. I’m surprised that Anderson Cooper just didn’t call this guy a lying sack of manure. It seems that Rep. Berman was severely beaten with a stupid stick when he was a young man. Either that, or he’s a product of Texas public schools.

Two for the price of one. What a great way to start off the Chanukah holiday.

Conservatives Rewrite Thanksgiving History

Apparently politics can’t rest, even for one day. Conservatives now have a new Thanksgiving history lesson – socialism caused the Pilgrims to starve and they were saved by embracing capitalism.

In an accompanying post on the Fox News website, Stossel explains that “had today’s political class been in power” on that first Thanksgiving Day, today would be “called ‘Starvation Day’ instead of Thanksgiving.”

Here’s how Stossel and the tea partiers break it down:

The Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony organized their farm economy along communal lines. The goal was to share the work and produce equally.

That’s why they nearly all starved.

According to the narrative, it wasn’t until a more capitalist structure was imposed that things really started to work. From Borowski’s FreedomWorks post:

In 1661 and 1662, the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians did share two meals together. But it wasn’t until the “miracle of 1663” that they celebrated a bountiful feast like we do today. As Governor William Bradford wrote that year, “instead of famine now God gave them plenty.” This was the year that Bradford switched to a more capitalist system.

In short, Borowski writes, “private property saved the Pilgrims.”

Oh, really? Historians don’t agree.

Trouble is, the Times reports, the conservative Thanksgiving tale is not exactly true. At all. From the paper:

Historians say that the settlers in Plymouth, and their supporters in England, did indeed agree to hold their property in common — William Bradford, the governor, referred to it in his writings as the “common course.” But the plan was in the interest of realizing a profit sooner, and was only intended for the short term; historians say the Pilgrims were more like shareholders in an early corporation than subjects of socialism.

Whatever the political leanings of the Pilgrims in that system, a historian tells the Times, “the arrangement did not produce famine.”

Let us all celebrate this socialistic holiday (sharing food!) and have a safe, happy & fun Thanksgiving! Don’t worry conservatives, tomorrow is the ultimate capitalist holiday.

Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything

Well, Chanukah starts next Wednesday at sundown, so I thought the email with this gift information was just in time.

NOT!

Here’s the text from the email:

With the holiday season quickly approaching, there’s no better time to visit the GOP Store and find truly unique and inspiring gifts for all the commonsense conservative Republicans in your life! Celebrate our 2010 election success and ring in the New Year with great gifts from your GOP Store…

Featured Items

2010 Republican National Committee Collectable Ornament

Add some patriotic good cheer and Republican pride to your holiday décor with this limited edition brass RNC Holiday Ornament — a fantastic keepsake for celebrating a successful 2010 election year!

Plush RNC 2010 Holiday Elephant

Meet “Twinkle,” the newest member of our adorable line of collectable RNC plush elephants! “Twinkle” is ready for merriment and makes a perfect stocking stuffer for all your little Republicans who have been so good this year… Actual size 5″ x 4″.

2011 RNC “American Exceptionalism” Calendar

Get ready for an exceptional new year with our 2011 Commemorative RNC wall calendar! Featuring original artwork that celebrates the unique character and achievements of the American people, the 2011 RNC Calendar will inspire you and yours throughout the coming year.

You Fired Pelosi — Now Get The Gear!

Let everyone know you helped send Nancy Pelosi a pink slip — and are ready to give Barack Obama a taste of the same medicine in 2012! Get t-shirts, buttons, travel mugs, bumper stickers and more from the GOP Store today!

Twinkle the Elephant? That sounds a lot like Michael Steele’s drag name. And I couldn’t find the Sarah Palin version of the Bass-O-Matic. Damn!

Monday’s Asshats of the Day

Numerous winners today, so I’ll get right to it.

First winner, that lard ass of a NJ governor Chris Christie, for demanding that the Delaware River and Bay Authority stop letting employees and retirees get free tolls if they use EZ Pass when crossing the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Only problem is, DRBA doesn’t have such a policy.

NEWS RELEASE: Delaware River and Bay Authority DOES NOT Have Free E-ZPass
Statement in Response to Governor Christie’s Recent Press Release Concerning PANYNJ

(New Castle, DE) The Delaware River and Bay Authority (DRBA) wants to correct an inaccuracy contained in yesterday’s press release from the Governor’s office entitled, “Governor Chris Christie Applauds Action to Remove E-Z Pass Perks at the Port Authority of NY/NJ.” Contained in the press release was the following quote attributed to Governor Christie: “…It’s time for the authorities that have not yet acted on my directive, the Delaware River and Bay Authority and the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to end these abusive practices as well…”

Since the inception of electronic tolls at the Delaware Memorial Bridge in July 2001, the DRBA has never permitted free E-ZPass usage on the Delaware Memorial Bridge for its employees or retirees. In 2008, free E-ZPass privileges for DRBA Commissioners to use the Delaware Memorial Bridge were also eliminated.

“It’s very difficult to eliminate a benefit that doesn’t exist,” remarked James N. Hogan, Chairman of the DRBA Commission. “In the future, I would respectfully request that the Governor direct his staff to do proper due-diligence to insure that such inaccuracies don’t occur again and that the DRBA be evaluated on its own merits.”

Asking Christie or any teabagger in office to do due diligence is like talking to a wall. If it’s good enough for a sound bite, to Hell with the facts.

Second up is St. Sarah, once again. This time it’s for her latest experiment in book writing (c’mon, we all know that this was ghost written since St. Sarah doesn’t read newspapers or books – maybe Tripp or Truck or whatever that other kid that we never see wrote it for her) in which she condemns JFK for his statements about his Catholicism (saying he ran away from his religion) while praising Mitt Romney for standing by his Mormonism. It’s apparent that St. Sarah had no idea what JFK was talking about, but her slam on an assassinated Democratic President makes good reading – for teabaggers. Interesting that the book came out on the 47th anniversary of JFK’s murder. And I’d be remiss for not mentioning her swing at President and Mrs. Obama with her raising that all too familiar bogeyman, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Too bad most of her followers still aren’t above the “See Spot Run” level in reading comprehension.

Next up, we have Mesa County (CO) Commissioner Craig Meis, who believes that’s it’s OK to break laws you don’t agree with. This past summer, he was ticketed for allowing his 14 year-old son to operate a personal water craft in a state park. Colorado law requires operators to be 16. Meis is fighting the ticket and trying to use his fight to stir up the teabaggers on Colorado’s Western Slope. When he was ticketed, Meis decided to let the park ranger that he was screwing around with the wrong person.

According to the report from the park officer who issued the ticket, Meis several times raised the fact that he is a county commissioner and that he knows the local district attorney well.

The officer wrote the ticket anyway.

Meis then wrote letters decrying the ticketing to other Republican officials in Mesa County and to Mike King, director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. He questioned the truthfulness of the officer who ticketed him and denied trying to use his public office to sway him.

Meis’ fight over the ticket cost the county several thousands of dollars as they had to bring in a special prosecutor. Meis lost the case.

And finally we have Curly from WGOP radio, who was railing today about the full-body scanners and enhanced pat downs at the nation’s airports. Granted, he’s so fat, it will take 2 TSA screeners to do a pat down. But his claims that this is just some socialist plot (along with the Food Safety Act) are just so totally out there, it’s laughable. Actually, I pity him, because it’s obvious that he has totally lost his mind. Hey Curly, why are you so soft on protecting America from terrorists?

Are Republicans Purposely Sabotaging The U.S.?

Republicans pulled a nifty trick in November. Despite the fact that it was Republican policies that broke the economy and Republicans have opposed every effort to fix the economy, Republicans benefited in the election because Democrats are the majority party and got the blame for the bad economy. Republicans seem to have gone collectively crazy – calling Obama both a fascist and a communist and saying that he’s the most left-wing president EVER!!!!! Pundits are starting to ask the question – do Republicans care if the country fails as long as it hurts Obama?

On Monday, Matt Yglesias chimed in, suggesting that the White House needed to be prepared for “deliberate economic sabotage” from Republicans. On Friday, after taking note of recent Republican attacks on the Fed’s quantitative easing program, Paul Krugman agreed:

The core reason for the attack on the Fed is self-interest, pure and simple. China and Germany want America to stay uncompetitive; Republicans want the economy to stay weak as long as there’s a Democrat in the White House.

Steve Benen collected these quotes today and added his concurrence: “We’re talking about a major political party,” he said, “possibly undermining the strength of the country — on purpose, in public, without apology or shame — for no other reason than to give themselves a campaign advantage in 2012.”

Strong statements! But here’s what’s really remarkable: virtually no one in any position of authority has picked up on this since Collender first suggested it. On the Republican side, practically everyone from the party leaders on down is thoroughly convinced that Barack Obama is one or more of: a socialist, an appeaser, a Chicago thug, a racist, a would-be killer of grandmas, and a president who wants to undermine everything that makes America great because he’s ashamed of his country. This is just standard rhetoric from Fox News pundits, radio show hosts, rank-and-file members of Congress, and party poobahs. It’s hardly even noteworthy anymore.

Just look at the new START treaty. Despite the fact that Reagan signed the first START treaty and previous treaties have been approved easily. Despite being begged by the military and former Republican leaders, approval of the treaty is uncertain at best.

Last week I Matt Yglesias called our system a “reverse parliamentary democracy” because we are run by the minority and not the majority. Mitch McConnell has admitted that his top priority is not the economy or jobs, it’s denying President Obama a second term. Republicans have benefitted by not getting much of the blame for the poor economy. Now that they control one branch of Congress, this should change.

Night of the Long Knives and Pitchforks

Well, it didn’t take long for the O’Donnell faction of the GOP to begin the civil war. At last night’s meeting of the Sussex County GOP Committee, Don Ayotte, who is a contributor over at that other political blog (you know the one, the one run by Delusional David) demanded Tom Ross’ head.

According to Jud Bennett, a member of the committee,

With absolutely no regard for the rules, Don Ayotte, with the backing of a vociferous and determined, stacked house, demanded that a Sussex County Resolution be passed, censoring State Chairman Tom Ross for his actions concerning Christine O”donnell (sic) during the Primary campaign and after. According to the resolution, Tom Ross had said “Christine O’Donnell could not be elected to dog catcher”. He also “did not support O”donnell properly after the Primary”, according to Ayotte’s resolution– in which O’Donnell upset Mikle Castle in the wake of Tea Party support.

We all knew that this day was coming, but Ayotte, who is known for his extremist views at the other blog, couldn’t even wait a week. All of us over here at DL are socialists and Marxists and he’s the sane one. Bennett continues:

Vitriol, shouting, and a total break down of order transpired. Ron Sams tried to explain that this action would serve no productive purpose in unifying the party. Moderate Republican, Maria Evans expressed her views in opposition of this action, and denied the validity of Ayotte’s proposal. She also held up a tape recorder, saying that she was taping the whole deal, which no doubt will be played on the internet, and on all the local and national TV and radio stations.

I’m beginning to think this is why Dan Gaffney tweeted today “and people wonder why I don’t join the ‘club’.” Better to steer clear of this mess, Dan.

But wait, there’s more. Bennett “called for a point of order–suggesting that only official committee members are allowed to vote on something like this and it requires a quorum of 50 voters.” After this– Ron Sams brought those Sussex Committee members to the front to count them. Only 31 were present, making any official action not relevant or legal.” But Ayotte and his teabagging fellow travelers would have nothing to do with the rules.

They wanted blood, they wanted to punish, and they wanted it known that Tom Ross needed to go and this was to be a vote of no confidence. County Councilman Vance Phillips called for a planned vote on the resolution at the next meeting, but Ayotte and company would not hear it. Finally, Ron Sams said, “you want to vote, go ahead. The unruly crowd , in a voice vote, overwhelmingly supported the resolution, with a few squeaky nays in opposition.

Standing on the sidelines urging on this unruly mob, with their torches and pitchforks at hand, were Vance Phillips and Sam Wilson, two members of the Sussex County Council. Both of these guys make Joe McCarthy look like a moderate. According to a friend of mine who was at the meeting, both of these fine gents moved that the resolution be placed on next month’s agenda. My guess is that they will ensure that there is a quorum present to vote on the motion. This is also what Curly has been advocating since the primary – he wants Ross’ head on a pike.

In closing his email to his Coastal Conservative Network, Bennett said this:

Regardless, without compromise, with this “take no prisoners”, vitriolic attitude, the Delaware GOP will not rebuild, will not heal, and will continue to lose elections. This is not the right way in my opinion, but I’m just an old dinasaur. So be it.

Dave Burris probably saw this in his crystal ball, which is why he left the party. And if the GOP splits, their caucus in Leg Hall will continue to shrink.

h/t to Independent

Friday’s Asshat of the Day

Feeling newly empowered, head House teabbagger Michelle Bachmann has been demanding a position in the House GOP leadership. She’s going to be disappointed, because I doubt that The Orange Man wants her to be the spokesperson for the party going into the 2012 election cycle. Anyway, she’ll be gone after 2012 as her district will probably be merged with that of another republican House member from Minnesota.

But she wins today’s Asshat award for her claim that the President’s upcoming trip to India will cost taxpayers $200 million a day.

To say this figure — $200 million a day — has made the rounds in the blogosphere would be a huge understatement. It has been repeated by nearly every conservative pundit in the land: Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Drudge. Always with a healthy dose of indignation.

It also got picked up by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Nov. 3, 2010, it was just the latest example of government excess and spending from the Obama administration.

“The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day,” Bachmann said. “He’s taking 2,000 people with him.

Yeah, I guess you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet, Frau Bachmann. Didn’t you realize how stupid your claim was when you said it? Or did you just exercise the teabagger’s way of not checking your facts before opening your pie hole?

When she was asked where she got her figures, Frau Bachmann said that “these are the numbers that have been coming out in the press.”

Actually it’s a figure that came from just one source, a news agency in India, relying on an anonymous source. It was then repeated thousands more times in the blogosphere and over conservative airwaves.

The claim that the U.S. would be spending “a whopping $200 million per day” on Obama’s visit to Mumbai, India, originated in a report from the news agency Press Trust of India. It was an estimate attributed anonymously to “a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit.” Maharashtra is a state located in western India.

White House spokesperson Kate Bedingfield said “The numbers reported in this article have no basis in reality.” Sounds just like Frau Bachmann and the rest of the teabaggers – they have no basis in reality. Guess we just need to file this claim away alongside the death panels that grandma is going to have to start reporting to soon.

Desparate and Stupid

What can we say about O’Whack-a-Mole’s political commercials. To me, their amateurish at best. My guess is that her ambulance-chasing former campaign manager set her up with some media shop who promised great commercials that would help her win. Instead, they’ve turned out dreck!

Witchiepooh has yet to run a single positive commercial telling the voters why they should vote for her. Instead, she’s trying to do to Chris Coons what she did to Mike Castle. But we were prepared. And we also didn’t realize how many gifts she’d give us (SCOTUS decisions, separation of church and state, mice with human brains).

Here’s her latest anti-Coons ad (I got a preview copy in my email from her campaign).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIa0q3bIK90&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Monday’s Asshat of the Day

It’s the week before Election Day and some folks are getting desperate and paranoid. Today’s winner thinks there’s an evil plot by the President to get your personal information.

Yes, those wacky, paranoid, idiots over at resistnet.com (you know, the ones that want to round up illegals and shoot them from the backs of pick-up trucks and the ones who worship at Curly’s obese feet) are telling their members that a page on Facebook is not as innocent as it looks. Under the title of “Facebook Users, BEWARE! Obama Supporters Launch Misleading Facebook Application Which Steals Your Personal Information,” Assistant National Director Mellie of Dallas, GA tells her minions

Commit fraud. Obama’s lust for power has lead his team to create a Facebook app which data mines your page and steals as much sensitive information as it can. As you can see from the photo below, it attempts to convince
you to give up everything about you, which is then fed into the Team Obama database, and WILL be used against you at some future point.

This app wants to know everything about you, including your religious and political beliefs. If you see this app on your page, we highly recommend you to not only delete the post, but also block the app and then block the person who posted it to your page. This is war, people, make no mistake about that. Because Obama’s Team has no intention of taking prisoners.

We aren’t the least bit paranoid, are we now, Mellie?

And an honorable mention goes to Friday’s winner, Sean Bielat, who just doesn’t know when to stop. Last week, he introduced a homophobic commercial to the campaign. But as is typical of the teabaggers, they love to shove another foot in their mouth (amongst other things). Yesterday, he compared being gay to being short, when it comes to military service.

According to the Huffington Post,

Bielat also did something else. He made a bizarre comparison when discussing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to the Boston Herald, arguing that gays should have no guaranteed right to serve in the military — just like short people.

“There’s no absolute right to serve. Men under the height of 5 feet, 2 inches can’t serve — I don’t see anybody protesting. Where are the people standing in front of the White House, the short guys standing in front of the White House? You don’t see it,” Bielat told the Boston Herald. “We understand that there’s no absolute right to serve in all these other areas,” he continued.

Bielat is not an asshat. He’s a complete and utter fucktard!

Take The Elitism Test!

Charles Murray (of The Bell Curve fame) has an op-ed in the Washington Post about how liberals are a bunch of elitists who don’t understand Real Americans(TM). I put together a quiz based on Murray’s elitism litmus tests.

Scoring: Each correct answer is worth 1 point. For Yes or No questions, Yes is 1 point, No is 0 points. Please be kind to your fellow commenters and don’t put the answers in your comments.

1. Who replaced Bob Barker on “The Price Is Right?”
2. Have you ever watched a full episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show?”
3. Who is Jimmie Johnson (2 answers)?
4. What does the acronym “MMA” represent?
5. Have you ever read “Left Behind?”
6. Have you ever read a Harlequin Romance?
7. Do you have an RV?
8. Have you ever been on a cruise?
9. What is the significance of Branson, MO?
10. Have you ever attended a Kiwanis or Rotary Club meeting?
11. Have you lived a year in a small, non-college town?
12. Have you lived in an urban neighborhood where most of your neighbors don’t have college degrees?
13. Have you ever spent a year with a family income less than 2x poverty (college student doesn’t count)?
14. Do you personally know an evangelical Christian?
15. Have you ever worked in a factory or ever visited a factory floor?

Scoring:
0-5 You’re an elitist! I bet you had to put down your latte to type, didn’t you?
6-10 You’re an elitist wanna-be
11-15 Congrats, you’re a Real American(TM)!

Thursday’s Asshat of the Day

Ah, another day, another teabagger being named Asshat of the Day.

Today, we bring you Keith Rothfus, who’s running for Congress against Democratic incumbent Jason Altmire in Pennsylvania’s 4th District.

Rothfus has a solution to deal with Supreme Court decisions he doesn’t like. If elected, he’ll defund the Court.

However, Rothfus took his defund-mantra a step further. When asked by a constituent whether or not Congress can override the Supreme Court, Rothfus argued that Congress could simply strip funding from the Supreme Court if it makes a decision he disagrees with. Said Rothfus, “if the Supreme Court rules you have to do something, we’ll just take away funding for it”:

CONSTITUENT: Keith, I have a question concerning the courts. It seems that the courts are having the final say on these matters, the Supreme Court. But isn’t it the Congress that can ultimately override the Supreme Court, the checks and balances?

ROTHFUS: Yeah, there are different checks and balances you can do. Congress’s ultimate weapon is funding. If the Supreme Court rules you have to do something, we’ll just take away funding for it. You can always pass a constitutional amendment. I myself have several amendments I’m thinking of. One is to tell the Supreme Court that when you consider American constitutional principles, American constitutional rights, you cannot rely on foreign law to adjudicate those. We have certain members of the Court who want to draw from Europe, and draw from Europe, Europe, and Europe. They’ll never want to draw from Saudi Arabia or something. They talk about these international evolving standards of decency, and they’re always talking about western Europe, which is dying. They want to incorporate really socialist principles into our constitutional regime.

He obviously doesn’t see a problem with interjecting politics into Court decisions. He’ll try to hold the Court hostage unless it issues rulings he wants. So much for respecting the Constitution and the separation of powers.

Honorable mention asshat today is Ken “buyer’s remorse” Buck for finally admitting that he doesn’t believe in global warming.

Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck, like his endorser Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), believes “global warming is the greatest hoax that has been perpetrated.” Buck is part of the Tea Party army storming the U.S. Congress this November that believes the overwhelming scientific consensus about the threat of fossil fuel pollution is a conspiracy. On Wednesday, Buck toured the state with Inhofe, whom he celebrated as “the most conservative senator in the U.S. Senate.” Meeting with supporters, Buck said the “evidence just keeps supporting” Inhofe’s senseless conspiracy theory:

Sen. Inhofe was the first person to stand up and say this global warming is the greatest hoax that has been perpetrated. The evidence just keeps supporting his view, and more and more people’s view, of what’s going on.

Oh, how I fear for our Nation.

Wednesday’s Asshat of the Day

Drunk dialing. It’s what someone does when they’ve had one too many. Most of us have done it at one time in our lives, most likely when we were in college.

But in a exercise of extreme chutzpah, Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, decided to call Anita Hill after 19 years a demand an apology from her for “what you did to my husband.”

Virginia Thomas, who, besides being the wife of the biggest jerkoff on the Supreme Court, is a Tea Party activist, must have been having a weird Saturday morning on October 9! Because around 7:30 a.m. she called up her old, you know, person whom she hates, at her (Hill’s) home office in Waltham, Mass., and left the following message in what The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer calls “a singsong voice”:

Good morning, Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas. I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. OK, have a good day.”

Now, Ginni Thomas is unusual for a wife of a Supreme Court Justice. Most, if not all, of the spouses of the Justices have not taken an active role in politics, since the Justices themselves are not supposed to be political. But Thomas has her own PR firm, and is the CEO of Liberty Central, whose mission is to “promote education, civil discourse, and activism focused on protecting core founding principles of the United States.” Basically, it’s a teabagger organization.

In November of 2009, Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas founded Liberty Central, a 501(c)4 organization whose primary objective is to harness the power of citizen voices, inform everyday Americans with knowledge, and activate them to preserve liberty. Ginni recognized the need for our country to bridge the gap between our nation’s citizens and its Capitol and return to a government that adheres to our core Founding Principles – limited government, personal responsibility, individual liberty, free enterprise, and national security.

Her public comments about President Obama have raised serious ethical questions about Justice Thomas’ ability to be an impartial jurist.

Max Reed, who authored the post on Gawker raises a serious question:

Serious question: Maybe I am parsing the Ginny Thomas Saturday Morning Account-Settling a little too much, but what does she mean by “did with my husband”? This is like a Raymond Carver story, isn’t it?! Though, Mayer says the message sounds “more adversarial than most peace offerings.”

Yes, what did Ginni mean by her statement?

Ginni, next time you feel the urge to call someone on an early Saturday morning to demand an apology, have a Coke and think about it. And make sure the Coke can doesn’t have a pubic hair on it.