When questions were first raised about the retreat last month, a court spokeswoman said Justice Thomas had made a “brief drop-by” at the event in Palm Springs, Calif., in January 2008 and had given a talk.
In his financial disclosure report for that year, however, Justice Thomas reported that the Federalist Society, a prominent conservative legal group, had reimbursed him an undisclosed amount for four days of “transportation, meals and accommodations” over the weekend of the retreat. The event is organized by Charles and David Koch, brothers who have used millions of dollars from the energy conglomerate they run in Wichita, Kan., to finance conservative causes.
Look the Kochs fund basically all of conservatism, so what’s wrong with wanting to help out their Supreme Court friends too? We all know Clarence Thomas will vote the way they want him too anyway, even if he can’t accept gifts from them. Common Cause should be going after the senators who let him get on the Court, not Clarence Thomas, because Supreme Court justices are untouchable by anything but the hand of Death. And, you know, Clarence Thomas seems to be good friends with Death too. [NYT]
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Check out the pubic hair on Koch's can.
Damn you!
Beat you to the low-hanging fruit, did I?
By seconds, though I suppose that was to be expected…harry palmer.
Good job, handsome!
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Question is, whose pubic hair was found on Koch's can?
Don't you mean IN Koch's can?
I guess any SC cases will be forever Koch blocked.
That's the Québécois pronunciation, no?
Something like that.
"I used to suck dick for Koch."
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
"and his Koch's cooks' cocks, too."
well if you're gonna suck a dick it might as well be a billionaire Kock!
It's all Long Dong Silver's fault. IMPEECH NAO
I used to think Justices of the Peace who perform marriages for $$ outside of their official duties had a license to print money. This must be the big time!
Clarence Thomas is Sun Myung Moon, we're all Korean now, and we just married some abusive stranger in a massive Stepford-wives fantasy.
"…because Supreme Court justices are untouchable by anything but the hand of Death"
Are you saying that Clarence Thomas can't be shamed into quitting? Well, yeah, true enough. But they can be impeached, or threatened with it, as was Abe Fortas. At least if Hopey leads the charge, they can't accuse him of racism.
I'm pretty sure they will, anyway, for the hell of it.
Obama's only half-black, by a non-American-born black. He's hardly black. Even many black Americans, otherwise non-supportive of Clarence Thomas, would admit that.
I know at least one guy who agrees. Oh, and here's a sign of his, also.
Job for life? Not enough. Doing job for life in a half-assed way without consequences? Also not enough. He craves the freebies like every other hack on the make in D.C. No doubt being called out on this will make him feel like he's getting another high-tech lynching.
The sense of entitlement of these assholes has no limits.
our flourishing union.
Thomas likes the Coke and Koch is always ready to provide as much as needed.
This will surely embarrass Justice Thomas into remaining silent during oral arguments before the court.
Koch rhymes with crotch, and we all know what an affinity Justice Thomas has for crotch and crotch accoutrements.
Love the phrase "crotch accoutrments". So classy and French sounding!
"Who put this merkin on my Coke?"
"Supreme Court justices are untouchable by anything but the hand of Death."
Ask Hosni Mubarak about that.
Of course, Americans are too fat and lazy to organize anything even remotely similar to what Egypt did. It's much easier to facebook and twitter each other, plus, it doesn't wear down our Rascal's tires.
"Things go better with Koch"
Nothing like a Palm Springs getaway. I have a feeling Ginni wasn't along for that trip.
Was THAT when she drunk-dialed Anita Hill that one time? That would explain a lot.
A lot of tears she's been holding inside…
"Tears of A Clown" keeps running through my head …
Appropriately so.
Tears of an Assclown
Impeach the Koch sucker.
Huzzah!
I'll bet Clarence and the Koch bros. were having some nice porn parties in the room….why not watch porn while you fuck America in the ass.
At first, I read that as "Clarence Thomas Now In ‘Trouble’ For Going On Paid Crotch Trips" and was not surprised in the least.
Can it be considered a conflict if the people handing out money have given you your ideas for free for years?
…I read it as some form of koochi pad, so at least I was already in the pubic area…
That's pretty much the conserative bench defense to all charges of corruption stemming from their ridiculously close relationships with people and issues who come before them. Like Scalia going hunting with Cheney on Cheney's tab, the argument is that since everyone knows Scalia's a douchebag who is going to be a conservative douchebag no matter what, it doesn't create a conflict somehow.
When can I get a gig to be a vegetable mute on the SC and vote the way the Koch Bros. and Scalia tell me?
Cuz… based on P points (and your opinion of Thomas) you probably have a conscience. Sorry pal.
Supreme Court justices are untouchable by anything but the hand of Death or impeachment if they make the shenanigans too obvious and ruin the scam for everyone else…
Sadly it's not too likely; there's only been one Supreme Court Justice actually impeached, and even he was acquitted by the Senate.
Can you remember a time when people serving in positions like this had a sense of honor that would not allow them to continue to serve with a blemish like this on their record? Nah, me neither.
Problem with that is, impeachments originate in the House and are prosecuted by the Senate. Imagine our current House of Dicks actually *doing* teh impeachment, babeh! Not gunna happen.
Not unless you're name is Sotomayor or Kagan.
I bet they wouldn't mind taking Ginsberg out, either. Which makes her recent speech totally teh lulz.
…and since I am a forgiving person, I am happy to accept the resignations of Thomas, Alito, Scalia and Roberts as penance.
You're a better man than I am, KochFembot.
Dude isn't a real conservative, just a conscience-less corrupt toady. All the real assholes just let him think he was passing, though.
Except Ringo had better rhythm.
and no Ginny problems…
I couldn't even imagine what it would be like to have Barbara Bach drunk dial my wife and abuse her for what she did to an ex-Beatle.
The accommodations in question consisted of all-expenses stay for him and his trollop at the pricey resort, Uncle Tom's Cabins.
You all are so unforgiving. Imagine poor Clarence Thomas. He gets to this big to do sponsored by the Koch Brothers, and only after he gets there, he finds out they spell their names differently and are not related to Long Dong Silver.
Irony: Thomas hooked by a high-tech wire-fraud.
Rentboy.com for all your Koch-trip needs….
Between this and his wife's "work" for Senator 'isName, Heritage thingy, there seems to be a hint of an ethics appearance problem. It makes me uncomfortable.
Too German. Seriously. At least, that's how Koch Medical in the Midwest become "Cook", even thogh we already had a Cook Medical company.
I get the feeling the Thomas’s isn’t really into the Supreme Court thing anymore if he ever was. Clarence probably never asks any questions because he’s day dreaming about dumping his wife for someone who understands his unique needs.
You just know he and Anita Hill are going to end up together.
A fatter white lady?
canI get a Koch History month in here?
David Koch's name is on the Hall of human Origins at Smithsonian Natural History. I guess money gets clean if the Smithsonian takes it.
Does that mean that he acknowledges that humans came from monkeys? Now I'm REALLY confused.
Kochs don't care about social issues – they're all about lower taxes for themselves.
Clarence Thomas: the best Supreme Court Justice money can buy.
And quietist!
Ginny will be drunk dialing the Fed Soc and demanding an apology for their reckless reimbursement.
Oreo-on-Oreo violence
Thanks, if…ya,
my fucking hearty laugh of the day.
This is Classic® Koch.
Free food and all the porn you can watch? Yea, thats our Clarence!
More like Mickey Dolenz to the Monkees or Susan Dey to the Partridge Family or the dudes from Milli Vanilli. Ringo could play at least.
And he had a bunch of hit records after the Beatles broke up.
The worst for the Republic is the fact that this Chief Justice Impersonator has not asked a single question during a Supreme court hearing in 5 years..60 months without a single question to any of the lawyers before the court.
Could he be the Uncle Tom of America?
He doesn't ask questions because he's sleeping. With Ginny always screeching at him at home, he can't get any sleep there.
Clarence is in no danger of impeachment or anything. Who will impeach him? The last thing the Republicans will do is give Barry another opportunity to appoint someone from the reality based community. There would have to be pictures of the K-Bros and Clarence and Rush Limbaugh buggering a line of Dominican cabana boys to even get peoples' attention. Not likely to happen.
I'm sure the House will vote to impeach him, just like they did with Bush.
Huh, who would have thought, Clarence Thomas really does have no ethics, just like Anita Hill said decades ago.
My wife had me silkscreen some "Anita Hill for President" shirts at that time so she could wear them around town. Reactions were very positive, as I recall, especially at the PTA where she was co-chair.
Can't we just cut to the season finale: Ginny comes home from her Klan meeting to find Clarence has auto-asphyxiated while perusing the latest issue of Jugs. Hilarity ensues.
Can't wait to join the zany antics!!
definitely going to die in jail!!
I hear they were sending him free porn too.
Won't be no pubies on the Koch cans.
It was a four day, Koch-fueled orgy.
This seeping wound on a Court that has become a mockery of its noble history, this seeping wound that is Thomas, would treble his understanding of basic constitutional principles by watching this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLQg7G3hkGY
More the pity that he needs Schoolhouse Rock to advance what is laughably called his intellect. Oh, and fucking "Ginnie" is a fucking "Cunt."
I can buy all of that, except calling Ginny Thomas a fucking cunt. First, I don't think she's been doing any fucking with that thing for a while, and second, she doesn't come across as soft, warm, inviting, beautiful, and pleasant to me. Just sayin'.
Welcome the 2011 house nigger…"Justice" Thomas.
Thank ya Misur Koch, anything you say mastah Koch… Ginny a bad girl, do whatevers you want sirrah….
(yeah, i can say nigger. so shut the fuck up.)
shut up is right, seems that Uncle Clarence hasn't had a SINGLE word to say in 5 WHOLE YEARS…sweet holy jeebus, he's gotta be the BIGGEST douchebag on the SCOTUS ever
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/13/justice-...
Honestly, there should be some kind of statute against that. It just seems so wrong. It shows a ridiculous level of disrespect for the office, and makes a mockery of it, that you can essentially phone it in.
Virginia "Ginni" Lamp Thomas has brass balls.
and a brain the size of a Walnut.
There have been a fair number of worth-shit Justices during the history of the Republic. A few are inevitable, given the process by which they are elevated.
Thomas is the most egregious current example. The thing that pisses me off, as an American citizen, is that when he eventually croaks, he will still be thinking that he was important, whereas in reality he was Scalia's sock puppet.
I don't believe in Hell, so all I can do is be pissed off.
We prosecute cokeheads every day of the year; why aren't we prosecuting these Koch heads/fiends/whores?
When I saw Rachel bring this up as "breaking news" the other night, that was my first thought. It was kind of "And?" Seriously, so what if it's found that he's uncomfortably close to the Koch brothers. What are/can you do about it? Nothing, really. Technically, he could be impeached, keyword "technically" because Democrats don't impeach, and Republicans impeach but only impeach Democrats.
Well, I did think about saying that, and then I thought, "But as a noob here, I will totally get my ass kicked by the regulars for strong language, or something," so I desisted. Alright, alright, it's good. Damn your eyes.
Welcome noob! Be advised that there is no such thing as "strong language on Wonkette. One of our major themes here is ass fucking or buttsex if you prefer. The other is Trucknutz.
It's OK – it will all become clear in due time. I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't worry about the language.
Thanks, fellow-feline! Although, given my predilection for creative cursing, you might well have opened a Can O' Wormz. Spread that Santorum!
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