Foaming-at-the-mouth lunatic who we've put in charge of our laws
I see Rep. Steve King has escaped from his crate again. This time it is to agree with a random wingnut radio caller that by gum, maybe is
is time to impeach two of the three female Supreme Court justices for
foisting marriage equality on America.
“That provision does exist, and let’s hear what the public has to say,” he added. “If that were put up before me today, and I think I mentioned Ginsburg and Kagan as being two that had been conducting same-sex marriages on their spare time and did not recuse themselves, I would put up the vote to remove them from office. And I’d like to see that case heard again and it would come down four-to-three and it in the end it would come back to the states for that decision, where it should be. But I don’t know if the public is ready for that.”
Mickelson then asked King about Sen. Ted Cruz’s idea of establishing retention elections for Supreme Court justices — similar to those in Iowa in 2010 that resulted in three state supreme court justices losing their jobs in retribution for marriage equality votes — which King said he thought was “a pretty good idea.”
When one of the farthest-right anti-immigrant anti-everything nutjobs has the same Constitution-punching ideas as some of the Republican presidential candidates, somebody needs to feel a little shamed by that. And for once, it's not Steve King.
He also repeated his plan for states to “abolish civil marriage” in order to deny the benefits and responsibilities of marriage to gay and lesbian couples.
Because that's an entirely reasonable reaction to gay Americans being able to get the same legal benefits as straight couples. Just burn down the whole thing—
done. Now
nobody gets any benefits! See, Steve King told you the Gays were going to destroy straight marriages.
We need to be very clear here: actual member of Congress Steve King is not right in the head. He's not right in the head, and he only gets away with being not right in the head because half of his entire political party is also not right in the head, and they're angry and bitter and fed up with other people's notions of America that don't recognize the inherent supremacy of people who like corporations and hate gay people and think immigrants are melon-calved drug mules being sent here to rape our wommenfolk and vote brown people into office. This is an entire movement that is not right in the head. Steve King ranting about how it's time to end marriage entirely rather than let The Gays get a piece of it is the frothing rantings of a madman, and we need to be having a much more transparent national conversation than we are about why a good chunk of America is happy to vote madmen into office.