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CLARENCE THOMAS is fed up. He believes he was tarnished unfairly by the accusations of some Senators that he is evasive and unscholarly and that he dissembled when he claimed to have held no opinion on Roe v. Wade. But instead of criticizing his accusers, Thomas blames his White House handlers. Says a sympathetic Republican who lobbied Senators on Thomas' behalf: "The White House told him to suck up to people and run away from his views. But as he found out, that approach gets you nothing." Not much respect, anyway...
Finally realizing her indiscretion, she clammed up like Clarence Thomas faced with a question about Roe. Can't tell you that, sir; can't even estimate. Further queries got the same kind of neither-confirm-nor-deny blather one usually associates with Kremlin cronies asked questions about Finland...
...more. Judge Thomas explicitly denies having a constitutional philosophy. Having proclaimed Roe v. Wade the most important constitutional case in the last 20 years, Thomas has tried valiantly to convince the Senate that he has never discussed the case with anyone or even thought about it himself. He seems to believe that he will sit on the highest court in the land only if people believe that he has no legal expertise. And he's probably right...
Nobody believes that Thomas, a federal judge, has never thought about Roe, and nobody believes that Gates, as deputy director of the CIA, didn't know what happened in his own organization in the early 1980s. Given the ignorance litmus test, both confirmations are in jeopardy...
...Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the abortion-rights decision, or some other court or Administration actions that cause large numbers of female Republicans to defect to the Democrats...