Rush on Chief Justice Clarence Thomas

Rush had a great deal to say about Clarence Thomas today - these two men are great friends, and Thomas presided over Rush's second marriage.

There's a link on the transcript page to buy Thomas' memoir, My Grandfather's Son. If interested, check it out at Amazon.com.

RUSH: There's a great piece in the New Yorker by Jeffrey Toobin. You know what's about? It is the most amazing story, a story I never thought I would see, although I know why it's been written. It is a story about how Clarence Thomas is the driving intellectual force of the United States Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni, are the two people working the hardest to stop Obamacare. It is Clarence Thomas that provides the guidance for Antonin Scalia, not the other way around, according to this story by Jeffrey Toobin.

RUSH: Walter Russell Mead has reviewed the Jeffrey Toobin piece in the New Yorker about Clarence Thomas, and Walter Russell Mead's thesis -- and, folks, I gotta tell you, you're gonna be as stunned as I was when you hear this. Walter Russell Mead's thesis of Toobin's article is that Clarence Thomas, while being completely smeared and underestimated by the left, may well have already laid much of the intellectual groundwork necessary to bring down the New Deal era scaffolding around the Constitution, may have already laid the groundwork for repealing Obamacare.

Here's a quote from the Toobin story: "In several of the most important areas of constitutional law, Thomas has emerged as an intellectual leader of the Supreme Court. ... When it comes to the free-speech rights of corporations, the rights of gun owners, and, potentially, the powers of the federal government; in each of these areas, the majority has followed where Thomas has been leading for a decade or more. Rarely has a Supreme Court Justice enjoyed such broad or significant vindication." I know you're asking, "Wait a minute. They impugn this guy, he's an idiot, he doesn't say anything in oral arguments, he does nothing but copycat Scalia. What is this?"

I'll tell you what it is. It's the truth. And the reason that they are getting to the truth now is because what's Toobin's doing with this piece, he's alerting the left to start targeting ethics complaints against Clarence Thomas to try to knock him out of the Obamacare decision. They are gonna try to force Clarence Thomas to recuse himself or to force himself out of the decision making precisely because what they've written about Thomas is true. He is intellectual giant; he has laid the groundwork, and he could lead the court to repealing Obamacare, and that's why they're doing the story now, to try to alert the left to ratchet up their attacks on Justice Thomas anew.

Read the entire transcript at Rush's side.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_083011/content/01125111.guest.html

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