For a Tea Party Republican, Senator Marsha Blackburn appears to know very little about the events surrounding the actual Tea Party.
Blackburn used her time at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week to attack and mischaracterize Jackson’s record on abortion, and describe Roe v. Wade as “one of the most brazen acts of judicial activism.”
The senator continued to express her anti-abortion viewpoint on Twitter Wednesday evening, attempting to school the nation about how the right to get an abortion is not in the U.S. Constitution.
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Her civics lesson was not well received, since all she really proved was that she hasn’t actually read the Constitution in a while.
“The Constitution grants us rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – not abortions,” Blackburn tweeted, quoting the opening line of the Declaration of Independence.
For some reason, she still hasn’t corrected it as of Thursday morning:
The Constitution grants us rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – not abortions.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) March 23, 2022
Here are some of the responses:
— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) March 24, 2022
That’s the Declaration of Independence you bag of hair.
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) March 24, 2022
Oh Honey Wrong document… pic.twitter.com/hB71Z7j367
— MrElias️ (@TheEliasRework) March 24, 2022
Marsha. Marsha. Marsha.
That’s the Declaration of Independence NOT the Constitution. https://t.co/OgzXOUbhzC
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) March 24, 2022
Kentanji Brown Jackson, Harvard Law, J.D. 2nd ranked law school in the nation.
Marsha Blackburn, B.A. in Home Economics. Mississippi State University. 198th ranked university in the nation.
— Grey_Obelisk (@Grey_Obelisk) March 23, 2022
I’m pretty sure most republicans haven’t read either one.
— Adam Metcalfe (@HillRobertS2) March 24, 2022
That’s Declaration of Independence. Though it figures you don’t know. I’ll argue pursuit of happiness means “my body my choice.” Otherwise all unvaccinated should be forced to. But I won’t tell them what to do, you have no right to tell anyone else. pic.twitter.com/b87gZV0D2C
— Mynmnobody ☠️ (@PMynmnobody) March 24, 2022
Someone who doesn’t know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence shouldn’t be involved in making laws.
— Julian Clark (@ThirdJulianC) March 24, 2022
How embarrassing that a sitting Senator didn’t know that’s the Declaration of Independence
— ᎶᏒᎥᎷᎷ ️⚡️⚕ (@grimm8675309) March 24, 2022
That’s a phrase from the *checks notes* DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, NOT the Constitution. I learned this freshman year of HIGH SCHOOL. Frankly, you have no business adjudicating the judge’s qualifications for SCOTUS
— SaltyCannonFodder(teacher) (@CrnchyMama) March 23, 2022
Tell me you’ve not read the constitution without telling me you’ve not read the constitution.
— (@ChidiNwatu) March 24, 2022
Cam
Yeah ago, Joan Rivers had a red carpet show and she commented on Faye Dunaway walking the red carpet, saying “There comes a point where they need to stop trying to wear the ingénue hair, it doesn’t work”
Marsha looks like she’s trying the same tousled style she wanted to wear in her 20s and now it just looks like a stiff sprayed, dried out, thirsty mess.
Since Marsha is anti-American, unqualified, and shouldn’t be a Senator, her hair was about the only thing related to her job I could reflect on.
MarcyMayer
The fact that Judge Jackson couldn’t answer a simple question like, “What is a woman?,” proves that Judge Jackson is a moron and NOT a great legal mind. Or, perhaps she was just trying to appease the wokesters in the far left of the Democrat Party.
Sadly, she’s an affirmative action pick by Biden. I’d like to know what grades she got in Law School and if they were weighted in any way.
Den
Jackson’s intellect, education and qualifications for the position are clear, and quite frankly unassailable. You, as a heterosexual man here to troll cannot cone close to her qualifications or even Blackburn’s slight ones, as your constant dull tirades make clear.
So tell us mister “marcy”, what exactly is the definition of a woman. Put up or shut up pissant!
Heywood Jablowme
@MarcyMayer: Sen. Blackburn doesn’t think YOU are a woman. She thinks you’re a man who took a lot of estrogen (and maybe cut off your d*** and/or nuts). Doesn’t that bother you?
This is aside from the fact that no one HERE believes you’re trans, either!
jcool
@marcy whatever
how simple are you to think she COULDN’T answer the question? she chose not to answer several bs questions about culture war subjects. the hearing is about her judicial qualifications to be on the SUPREME COURT. does it ever hurt to feel the need to come to this site to start fights?
202gay.com
Her whole brain is concentrated in her hairstyle, nothing has been left in her head for a long time
barryaksarben
MARCY MARCY MARCY. Dear it is YOU who cant answer that question. You seem to think that having a woman’s first name makes you a trans woman which we proved a long time ago you ARE NOT. Judge Jackson’s answer was well thought out and showed how a JUDGE in a court of law must only rule on things that are brought up in a court case. However since you like Ms Blackburn have such a shitty understanding of the BASIC rules of all three of our branches of government it is no surprise you have it all wrong AGAIN
The Accidental Polemicist
How about….
“There are no United States founding documents that grants anyone the right to an abortion.”
Her point was accurate, but her choice of document was incorrect.
Happy?
ZzBomb
9th Amendment – Abortion is an Unenumerated Right.
Get Over IT
The Accidental Polemicist
@ZzBomb
Well, I certainly know how you liberals love to kill nascent human life.
Kevan1
Yeah let us know how things work out if God forbid a child you love is raped or is a victim of incest. Your type always has the answers until it happens to you. Then you run off to another state and or country to do what should be legal everywhere. Until you are a women or child in any Myriad of situations that ends up pregnant and fears for your life. Go whine to someone else. Abortion is a traumatic decision between the pregnant person and their God or lack of God. NOT YOURS.
Cam
The Constitution as written also didn’t give women the right to vote, so the irony of her talking about the original document. LOL
But it’s cute that the right wing troll keeps on blathering on.
Sotzume
Yes and you right wing radicals like to kill the rest of humanity.
barryaksarben
the constitution does give you the right to drive or the right to every modern activity because it wasnt done when the thing was written. It is implied as zz pointed out to you that made you feel stupid. Roe v Wade and abortion itself is supported by a vast majority of Americans. It WILL destroy the gop if and when they vote their religion to get rid of it and a few thousand women and girls die. I was here when poor women died or were forced to have unwanted children. Back alley abortions were REAL a**hole and will be again but none of you give a rusty F**K about the women. While letting the men off scott free. DISGUSTING
ZzBomb
Dear Conservatives,
There is this is thing called “Unenumerated Rights” highlighted in 9th Amendment. Look it up, a right doesn’t have to be explicitly stated in the Constitution to be considered a right. An example of such a right is the right to travel. No where in the Constitution does it say you have the right to travel, hence it is unenumerated right but a right nonetheless. So like the right to travel, abortion is an unenumerated right as well.
Get Over IT
The Accidental Polemicist
@ZzBomb
Thank you, Mr. Supreme Court.
I certainly hope our Supreme Court Justices look to your expertise when they address this issue later this year.
ZzBomb
@ TAP
The SCOTUS decision, if they overturn Roe will end the Republican party from ever attaining a majority in the gov’t again and will be undone in time making abortion legal again. Just watch.
MarcyMayer
Abortion like marriage equality is a state issue, and not a federal issue.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
barryaksarben
See how the right wing nuts respond to someone who actually knows jack shit about an issue just look to the name calling after zz’s intelligent comment. Accidental goes right to the playground since tat is as far as his mind ever got. ignorance is red
Kevan1
Sadly.. I have to share a city and state with this hag. I wish she finish drying up and just blow away.
MarcyMayer
So, leave Tennessee. Clearly, you don’t agree politically with most of the residents in your state.
barryaksarben
THAT hair! and she doesnt like drag queens? she looks like the most outlandish queen on rupaul. OH and just ignore Marcy we all do. By the way she is really a he and we found that he is a straight white guy thinking he is fooling people. Having a woman’s first name made him think he was trans LOL
Paul Leary
Is it possible the GQP is getting stupider?
MarcyMayer
Before we answer that question, let’s give Biden an evaluation to see how far his dementia has progressed.
Den
Provide one verifiable indication that Biden has dementia Mr. “Marcy” or be revealed as the regressive lying heterosexual male we all know you are. There are innumerable videos of Trump’s aphasia and confusion, not to mention his innate stupidity. Perhaps it is you that is displaying the beginnings of dementia. After all you seem very easily manipulated and taken in by even the stupidest right wing talking points.
Honestly, you make most of the people here sick, and with good reason…no honesty, no intellect, no integrity. Just here to ‘troll the f@gs’ that we know your kind despises.
Mister P
The republicans don’t believe in abortion except in the case of their daughter or mistress.
MarcyMayer
I’m a libertarian. I vote Republican and I support abortion rights and LGBTQ+ rights.
Den
Cut the crap. Nobody believes that bull. You are about as stupid as That Jenner woman (except you are clearly a man).
And there are none as deluded and foolish as libertarians. They (you) live in a make believe world where empathy and altruism are weaknesses, and selfishness, self absorption and corruption are virtues!
Halfnhalf
There you have it. A “small” government tea party Republican, who doesn’t want Government in their money pouch, but is perfectly fine with the government being in other people’s most personally difficult decisions between their doctor and themselves.
The Accidental Polemicist
@Halfnhalf
It’s called – protecting the most vulnerable amongst us.
Since Democrats love to destroy nascent human life, conservatives will gladly take up the mantle.
ZzBomb
@ Tap
Bible says life starts at BIRTH. Look it up. A lima bean worth of cells a human does not make.
MarcyMayer
I say: Stay out of my bedroom and my wallet.
barryaksarben
How is forcing a woman to give birth protecting the most vunerable? The gop has no exceptions even for rape and incest. WHo could possibly be more vunerable than a young girl in her own home being raped by a relative? you need to explain your dumbass comment
Prax07
Blackburn, just another example of GOP morons at “work”. Waste of air the lot of them.
GrizzleyMichael
God didn’t she bother to look in a mirror, oh I forgot when she looked in the mirror it broke
Kangol2
Embarrassing and telling that this Repug US Senator doesn’t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution, which she took an oath to uphold. Also, the Medusa Wannabe look doesn’t help her credibilty one bit either.
mecmass
Even if she had quoted the correct document, the chucklehead displayed her lack of knowledge anyway. The preamble to the Declaration of Independence reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all … are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Where, pray tell, does that sentence state that our ONLY rights are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness? It specifically says that these are only a few that are AMONG our inalienable rights.
As Bill Engvall says… “Here’s your sign”!
DCFarmboy
I’m a gay man, but I find Marsha Blackburn sexually alluring.
rukwir2
Holy cow! What a mess! This woman needs to see a gay hairstylist. Like yesterday, bless her heart.
white-queer-african
Oh how i miss SamB et al. Then again. NOT! Ms M*ntalMayer and ATP’s trolling is more than a sane can stomach.
As for the senator. No comment!
white-queer-african
Correction. Should read “sane person”.
SparkyMICH
I’ve sent rats’ nests neater than that thing on top of her head.
white-queer-african
Best comment today Lol Lol Lol.
Crow’s nest maybe?
johncp56
Con-servative twat!
JromeGervais09
Not only did she miss her history class, she also doesn’t realize that her hair-do aaah, correction it’s a hair don’t, went into the Boston Harbor when disco was dumped into the harbor in the 80s.
barryaksarben
the gop has given us way too many ignorant senators and representatives. Jewish space lasers etc. Just horrifying to think these idiots can make laws that effect actual people