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Marriage ought to be afforded the same quality as heterosexual marriage. if we know that equality is equality why wait until the legislative process moves on? i mean if you extract justice scalias argumentation to an awful conclusion then he might not have moved to address the questions of interracial marriage. he would have allowed the legislative process to play itself out on a whole host of issues involving civil rights women, gays african-americans, so i think what justice kennedy did was to...

Washington, and the first thing they do is run against washington. i think he has done it in record time. >> and in terms of obama care itself, can we assume literally tomorrow, once the government is back up and running, the debt ceiling issue is shelved, were not going to see the obama care back up, something the republicans wanted to see because they believe that president obama could be quite vulnerable on this. >> well, look, i think obama care is the law. i think youre going to see a lot o...

Are political implications to a great many of the courts decisions and so the court and politics have never been far apart. >> and there is a split on the court on whether they believe the constitution is a living, or breathing document and we should be following the original intent. depending on the way we feel, it leads to the 5- 4 decision. you can point out the liberals are more happy with the court an the conservatives right now. and not all. one thing many on the left were unhappy about la...

>> when barack obama says he wants to transform america, and he looks down his nose at people who cling to their guns and bibles, understand, he understands that the critical transition america has to make is to reject the declaration, to reject that living, breathing document of the constitution. >> and senator santorum joins us now from houston. senator, thanks very much for your time. we appreciate it. lets get right to it. i guess youve been watching whats been going on this week at these to...

About this is that our constitution is a living breathing document. thats the way the founding fathers set it out. so it is interesting how as we progress as a country and as how our culture anges, that we should see the constitution changing to fit different opportunities. but that was a very important moment. ted olson and david boies there with the four plaintiffs, this is their day. it sounds like from jeff toobin and joe johns that the justices were all over the place. so well have to wrat ...

National tv, i have not done any of those things. i have a dog, but ive never had sex with my dog. because im normal. just like everybody else. and for that man to go around saying things like racial entitlement, bestiality, et cetera, et cetera, its farcical. i wrote a column back in november -- back a couple weeks ago when he did this thing on racial entitlement. i said in the column i thought i was hearing a justice of the supreme court from the 1960s or from the 19th century. this is a man t...

We didnt used to think that women should have the right to vote. we used to think it was okay to have racially segregated schools. so that is part of our history. that is part of what makes us the great country we are that were able to see our constitution as a living, breathing document and the principles in the constitution obviously are what should prevail. but the principles of equal protection, the basic idea that everybody, if they play by the rules, and if theyre willing to accept the res...

And i think -- you know, when i think about the president and his inauguration, he said that we have an obligation. thats the term he used, to move the country forward. watch this, angie. >> you and i as citizens have the power to set this countrys course. you and i as citizens have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas. >> he talked about us shaping the debate. is that...

From those ads, but he repeats their attacks on the campaign trail. heres what he tells fellow tea partiers about brown. >> never met a tax he didnt hike. never met a regulation he didnt like. thinks the constitution is a living, breathing document. tramples on our freedoms, says the government is the engine of job creation. >> mandel says hes against tarp and hes against the automobile loan rescue. but when the editorial board of the cleveland dealer pressed him for specifics on job creation an...

Partiers about brown. >> never met a tax he didnt hike. never met a regulation he didnt like. thinks the constitution is a living, breathing document. tramples on our freedoms, says the government is the engine of job creation. >> mandel says hes against tarp and hes against the automobile loan rescue. but when the editorial board of the cleveland dealer pressed him for specifics on job creation and health care reform he said, i think theres some issues that id like to wait until im a senator an...