Defense of Marriage Act
Posted at 10:48pm on Mar. 25, 2008 Bill Clinton defends federalism.
On DoMA, no less.
By Moe Lane
It's fascinating to watch, really:
Speaking as a supporter of same-sex marriage, and speaking not as any sort of legal professional, the part of DoMA that allows states not to recognize other state's SSMs is bad law... and a damned good idea, because if it ever gets overthrown by the courts (it won't be repealed, and I don't care what nonsense Senator Obama uttered about how he'll go about doing that) we will see a Constitutional amendment pass Congress with unseemly haste, coupled by a quick ratification by enough states within 2 years, tops. And the hypothetical President Obama will not be able to do anything official about it, because the Constitution is set up explicitly to prevent the Executive branch from being formally involved in Constitutional amendments... for reasons that should be blindingly obvious to anyone who's bothered to think about the subject for thirty uninterrupted seconds.
We will now pause for the hardshell progressives to catch up.
(pause)
Excellent. As Hot Air noted, it's fun to watch Bill Clinton defend federalism - particularly to a student journalist - but this is turning into the weirdest election campaign on record. Seeing a Democrat defend federalism (which is one of their code words for "state's rights," which itself is one of their code words for "I feel like calling a Republican a racist") will do that to a person. So will hearing one of them actually say (as Allahpundit notes): "So you don’t care what the practical implications are?"
Although that may just be because Bill Clinton looks and acts pretty tired right now. Then again, they probably all are at this point: it's a long season, and it's just going to get longer. Stagger those vacations in shifts, Democrats. You've got at least two more months of the grind to go, and this is the slack time.
Well, for you. We're recharging, ourselves.
Moe Lane
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