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Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
November 28, 2017 2:28 am
Utah Republican Orrin Hatch called bullcrap on Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown last week. The Senate Finance Committee lion tore into Brown for spewing that the Republican tax plan to transfer a trillion dollars to the rich was in reality a Republican tax plan to transfer a trillion dollars to the rich.
I got my first dose of Hatch during the wall-to-wall coverage of the confirmation of Clarence Thomas, George H.W. Bushs Supreme Court nominee. Hatch was the Republicans designated questioner of Anita Hill. She was called to testify because shed told the FBI that Thomas had sexually harassed her 10 years earlier, when he was her boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Education.
Sitting behind her were her mother, Erma (who is going to be celebrating her 80th birthday); her father, Albert; her sisters, Elreathea, Jo Ann, Coleen and Joyce; and her brother, Ray. No way she was going to lie to the committee, or to us, in front of them.
Hill testified that Thomas had repeatedly asked her out, and that she repeatedly refused. So he demeaned her. He told her someone had once put a pubic hair on his Coke can. He said porn star Long Dong Silver had nothing on him in the endowment department.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/clarence-thomas-must-resign/
He should never had been put on the bench in the first place
rainin
(3,011 posts)sexually abused by Thomas please come forward? Please? This is the time. Thank you, Anita, for your bravery. On behalf of Americans, I'm sorry we weren't ready to act on the truth of what happened to you.
BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)Only Dems will be held accountable.
Btw the logic here is lacking. Yeah lets replace a 70 year old right wing judge with a 45-year-old thats even further to the right and who has decades of life left. Great plan.
janterry
(4,429 posts)that admit it.
The republicans, at least most of them, just lie.
(Values, indeed)
dlk
(11,567 posts)The GOP demanded a right-wing zealot and they got one.