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Late Night: Stupid Republican Tricks

Posted: April 12, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: just because, right wing hate grouups, Surreality, U.S. Politics | Tags: , , , , , , |9 Comments

Tea party leader and all around wacko Michelle Bachmann wants Congress to limit the powers of federal judges to rule on equal protection under the Constitution.

Republicans treat the Constitution like a toy that they can manipulate however they choose. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) claims that all federal education programs — including Pell Grants and student loan assistance — are unconstitutional. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says that they are constitutional problems with the federal ban on whites-only lunch counters. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) suggested that child labor laws, FEMA, food stamps, the FDA, Medicaid, income assistance for the poor, and even Medicare and Social Security violate the Constitution. And when the Ninth Circuit held that yes, the Constitution does have a First Amendment, Newt Gingrich’s political advocacy group called for that court to be abolished.

With so many Republicans claiming that the Constitution can mean whatever they want it to mean, it should be no surprise that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) wants a piece of this action. Yesterday, Bachmann told a gathering of social conservatives in Iowa that if the courts insist on applying the Constitution’s requirement that no state may “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” to gay people, then Congress should strip federal judges of their power to hear marriage equality cases.

Transcript:

“Something else that we can do to reinforce our pro-marriage, pro-life, pro-family agenda is to limit the subject-matter jurisdiction of the courts,” Bachmann said during a Monday speech in Pella, Iowa.

“At the federal level with what are called Article III courts, Article III of the United States Constitution, we can limit the subject matter that justices can rule on. We have it within our authority to decide what judges can rule on and what they can’t.”

9 Comments on “Late Night: Stupid Republican Tricks”

  1. bostonboomer says:
    April 12, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    Bachmann blatantly lied to Iowans about her own family history–claiming to be a 7th generation Iowan. But her ancestors really lived in the the Dakota Territory and then Wisconsin. She told these lies at an event called The Rediscover God in America Conference.

    • TheRock says:
      April 12, 2011 at 9:48 pm

      HOW DOES SHE KEEP GETTING RE-ELECTED?!?!

    • dakinikat says:
      April 12, 2011 at 9:57 pm

      I seriously think she has mental/emotional issues. I’ve never seen any one who has reality confused with a dream world in such a public position. Since many of her delusions are based in religion, she’s allowed to roam free. If they were based in anything else, she’d be locked up somewhere.

    • dakinikat says:
      April 12, 2011 at 10:05 pm

      AC Cooper is ‘fact checking’ Bachmann right now on her outrageous statements on Planned Parenthood.

  2. dakinikat says:
    April 12, 2011 at 10:43 pm

    The Des Moines Register on Quotes: Michele Bachmann in her own words on marriage, judges, a stolen election when she appeared in Pella, (home of the tulip festival) Iowa including THIS DOOZY:

    ON THE MILITARY: “… whether it’s our United States military, which has become a proving grounds for social engineering with the new imposition of ‘don’t ask don’t tell,’ which our military by the way is set against. You’ll hear a lot of phony baloney polls, but our military is set against this policy.”

  3. Glenn McGahee says:
    April 13, 2011 at 5:44 am

    The more she is allowed to spew, the better. She proves she’s a crackpot without us having to say a word.

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