Rick Santorum was right in his element at the National Right to Life Committee convention Friday,
telling the rapturous audience that the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage was the cancerous outgrowth of
Roe v. Wade. Via Miranda Blue at Right Wing Watch:
Roe v. Wade, he said, is “the cancer that is infecting the body of America” and “you saw Roe and its subsequent decisions bare its ugly head in the case of the gay marriage decision just a few days ago.” [...]
“It’s a fundamental rewriting of the Constitution, ignoring truth, ignoring Nature and Nature’s Law.”
Santorum promised to go back to the drawing board on dismantling marriage equality.
“When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They do not have the final say on anything! The American people have the final say on everything!”
Well, in some quarters, Rick, people see the Supreme Court as an integral part of our system of checks and balances. It's something I seem to recall the Founders working into that silly musing known as the U.S. Constitution.
But Rick don't care. He reminded the audience of his work following a Scotus ruling that overturned "partial birth abortion" bans across the nation.
"We drafted another bill and you know what that bill said: 'Supreme Court, you're wrong!' That's what the bill said."
It would be totally laughable except, that's pretty much
what happened after more than 30 states passed partial birth abortion bans in the '90s.
Those bans were struck down by the Supreme Court in 2000, but in 2003 Congress passed the Federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush. That law met challenges from abortion advocates but in 2007 the Supreme Court upheld the federal ban in Gonzales v. Carhart.
Perhaps it's worth remembering that if enough nut jobs are running the country, anything is possible.