Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), a top Senate Republican set to retire this year, on Sunday struggled to explain his opposition to Justice Clarence Thomas’ recusal from Jan. 6-related cases after revelations of Thomas’ wife’s pro-coup texts.
Shorter Roy Blunt: ‘IOKIYAR, so shut up!’
The GOP did not select the right person to convincingly respond to this question. Not the right person at all.
Agreed. Blunt sounds scared and this response suggests GOP leadership (as opposed to the rabid insurrectionist lizard-brains like Boebert, MTG, Gosar, Cawthorne, Hawley, and that slimy pudgy asshole Cruz) is worried about the Ginni-Clarence pipeline.
Ummmm…photo caption mentions Moscow Mitch as “D(KY)” — which would be fantastic but sadly, not possible in this universe.
Oh, yeah, and even the Goopers don’t think anyone will believe Blunt’s whopper lie.
Clarence is not at all influenced by Ginni’s insurrection support as evidenced by his vote for allowing tfg to withhold J6 records from the committee. Oddly, the other 8 justices didn’t agree.
Blunt and his family are wired into every lobbying firm in DC.
I would assume he is carrying water now for whoever will be paying
his tab next January, although “principled Republican” is a compelling narrative for a Sunday Morning hack.
Notwithstanding that Thomas was the only Justice who desired to withhold J6 evidence, it’s immaterial whether Thomas agrees or disagrees with his wife’s insurrectionist activities-- there is a clear and apparent conflict of interest when topics directly concerning his wife appear before the Court. His opinions about them or other’s representation of them don’t matter at all.
Well, to be honest, Yoko, I mean Ginni is pretty damn disagreeable.
Magnetic poles flipped overnight, didn’t you notice?
The correct question(s) would have been, should Elena Kegan recuse if her husband were involved in the fundraising of Jan 6? What if her husband texted Mark Meadows, the Chief of Staff. Should she recuse then?
An utterly corrupt Senator whose family business is trading on his elected position is trying to defend an utterly corrupt Supreme Court Justice whose family business is trading on his lifetime appointment. What they have in common is they both hide their family businesses behind their wives and in the case of Blunt their children.
Odd-he doesn’t seem conflicted in the least. I can almost hear his argument:
“I am a fascist asswipe and I would be voting for the fascists asswipes who own my soul. It is unfair to expect me to bow out just because my wife agrees with me.”
Right?
Is there a right person?
Blunt was asked about calls for Justice Thomas to recuse himself from election cases given his wife’s, Ginni Thomas, active involvement
…his wife Ginni Thomas’ perhaps?
Right. The Blunt family lobbying operation is very, very well documented. Look it up. Of course, we are talking about the Congress of the United States where everyone blinks at such corruption.
There is never a right person to make a GOP argument convincingly, because a GOP argument is never defensible, much less laudable.
Shorter Blunt - “I know nothing about the situation, but I’ll try to portray Thomas in the least-corrupt way possible”
More bullshit from Blunt and the rest of the Party of Insurrection. Why aren’t they all in jail?