{"id":185119,"date":"2011-10-05T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/05\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-25\/"},"modified":"2011-10-05T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:54:00","slug":"whiskey-tango-foxtrot-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/05\/whiskey-tango-foxtrot-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding:5px; width: 394px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" class codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1200530035001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fcurrent.com%2Fshows%2Fcountdown%2Fvideos%2Frep-louise-slaughter-exploring-retroactive-recusal-of-justice-thomas-in-old-cases-with-conflicts-of-interest&#038;playerID=1040141195001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAA3B3xrZk~,HJshEnrCBsRvDMbCheku3Pjss6-I6ruG&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1200530035001&#038;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fcurrent.com%2Fshows%2Fcountdown%2Fvideos%2Frep-louise-slaughter-exploring-retroactive-recusal-of-justice-thomas-in-old-cases-with-conflicts-of-interest&#038;playerID=1040141195001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAA3B3xrZk~,HJshEnrCBsRvDMbCheku3Pjss6-I6ruG&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The power of wishful thinking<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Representative Louise Slaughter has suggested during an interview on Olbermann and she suggested that, because of Clarence Thomas&#8217;s repeated violation of conflict of interest statutes that his votes <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/shows\/countdown\/videos\/rep-louise-slaughter-exploring-retroactive-recusal-of-justice-thomas-in-old-cases-with-conflicts-of-interest\">might be subject to retroactive recusal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Slughter&#8217;s suggestion as a remedy is just wishful thinking.  <\/p>\n<p>There is a remedy, and it&#8217;s called impeachment, and the idea that Chief Justice Roberts as head of the judicial ethics commission would refer this to the Department of Justice is ludicrous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of wishful thinking Representative Louise Slaughter has suggested during an interview on Olbermann and she suggested that, because of Clarence Thomas&#8217;s repeated violation of conflict of interest statutes that his votes might be subject to retroactive recusal. Rep. Slughter&#8217;s suggestion as a remedy is just wishful thinking. There is a remedy, and it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}