Clarence Thomas has admonished his fellow Supremes, lamenting that they ask too many questions during oral arguments, interrupting the poor lawyers, who don’t get a chance to present their case, complete with exhibits hand decorated with dried macaroni, Elmer’s glue, and glitter.
Instead of using oral arguments to do a Sudoku puzzle–or a Where’s Waldo’s in the case of Clarence Thomas–these Ivy League jurists waste the court’s time asking silly questions about what, where, why, when, who, and how. I mean who do these egg heads think they are, Woodward and Bernstein?
Don’t these guys know that they are just window dressing and are not to speak? All they have to do is quietly listen to whatever the two sides have to say, go back into the cloak room, and decide whatever way Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove wants them to?
These bozos make themselves look like fools every time they open their mouths. People have admonished Clarence for asking just one question in the last four years. They belittled him when Sotomayor took the bench and asked more questions in one hour than Thomas had asked in ten years. Well, these naysayers are the ones who are the fools. Thomas well understands what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
Thomas knows he wasn’t hired to make a point. He was hired to be a good boy, and keep the illusion alive that Republicans have a big tent. Truth be known, the only big tent we Republicans have is the one Republican Senators and Congressmen pitch for young male pages.
So I salute Thomas. With the exception of his outburst this week, he has been mostly seen and not heard.
Just like George H. W. Bush wanted him.
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