{"id":15679,"date":"2015-07-23T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15679"},"modified":"2015-07-23T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T16:44:16","slug":"rachel-and-the-the-froth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/23\/rachel-and-the-the-froth\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel and the The Froth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Most of you should remember that Rick Santorum has been so hateful to gay people that the gay community gave his name a <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadingsantorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">special meaning<\/a>.&nbsp; His positions have not changed one iota, but he&rsquo;s so desperate to gain recognition that he actually appeared on Rachel Maddow&rsquo;s show.&nbsp; He tried to hide his frothiness.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"0723santorum\" border=\"0\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/0723santorum.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"0723santorum\" width=\"360\" \/>MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night sat down with former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) for an interview on same-sex marriage, which led to a heated debate over the Supreme Court&#39;s recent ruling that gay couples have the right to marry.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum told Maddow that the Supreme Court &quot;is not a superior branch of government&quot; and argued that Congress can still pass a law regarding same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Maddow insisted that Congress could only pass a constitutional amendment that directly contradicts a Supreme Court ruling. Santorum disagreed and said that all three branches of government can determine what is constitutional&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/rachel-maddow-rick-santorum-gay-marriage\" target=\"_blank\">TPM<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">First, let me note that virtually everything he says about his past is a lie.&nbsp; <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Rachel actually had two frothy segments. Here&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1IjSFSX\" target=\"_blank\">the first<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_bsantorum1_150722\" width=\"635\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Because his policies are so horrific, I never realized he can come off as more affable than he is.&nbsp; <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/1IjQI9d\" target=\"_blank\">the second<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_csantorum2_150722\" width=\"635\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It will be interesting to see if this segment gets him enough attention to get him a top ten seat at the <em>Faux Noise<\/em> Festival of Lies.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Speaking about reversing the Supreme Court decision guaranteeing LGBT people the right to marry, he dis say one thing that is true.&nbsp; <\/font><font color=\"#0000ff\">&quot;If you have a new group of Justices, you might get an entirely different decision.&quot;&nbsp; What better warning could we have.&nbsp; If Frothy, or any other Republican, gets to make the next round of Supreme Court appointments, the decisions that Court makes will spell the end of America.&nbsp; It MUST be prevented.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you should remember that Rick Santorum has been so hateful to gay people that the gay community gave his name a special meaning.&nbsp; His positions have not changed one iota, but he&rsquo;s so desperate to gain recognition that he actually appeared on Rachel Maddow&rsquo;s show.&nbsp; He tried to hide his frothiness. 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