Terri Schiavo
the Schiavo case... is so riddled with horrible political ironies. Just a few I've wanted to write down:
1) Bush says we must "err on the side of life," enough to conspicuously rush home on Air Force One to sign that bill -- but to my knowledge he did not commute a single death sentence as governor, and in fact he made jokes about that woman who was executed.
2) "Preserving life" is all-important -- but not the 18,000 unncessary deaths each year due to lack of health insurance (CAProgress stat today) -- heck, those are jes' poor sick folks.
3) States' rights and small federal government are important -- except not here. No, here the Giant Federal Fist must burst through the window, after eight years of ceaseless litigation!
4) Marriage is a sacred institution and we have to protect it at all costs -- except for Terri Schiavo's marriage. That's fair game!
5) Terri Schiavo's parents used Medicaid checks and a $1 million medical liability lawsuit award to keep litigating her case -- and the GOP is now trying desperately to limit both of those venues dramatically.
As an aside, I cannot believe the vitriolic, hateful rhetoric these guys use against Michael Schiavo. Watching Bay Buchanan call him "the lowest of the low" on CNN, listening to the vicious way DeLay talks about him -- what the hell do they know about him? It's like this political reflex to destroy the target, whatever it is, just raze it to the ground with words. And last week DeLay was speechifying about how Democrats are using "the politics of personal destruction" against him. Jesus.
1) Bush says we must "err on the side of life," enough to conspicuously rush home on Air Force One to sign that bill -- but to my knowledge he did not commute a single death sentence as governor, and in fact he made jokes about that woman who was executed.
2) "Preserving life" is all-important -- but not the 18,000 unncessary deaths each year due to lack of health insurance (CAProgress stat today) -- heck, those are jes' poor sick folks.
3) States' rights and small federal government are important -- except not here. No, here the Giant Federal Fist must burst through the window, after eight years of ceaseless litigation!
4) Marriage is a sacred institution and we have to protect it at all costs -- except for Terri Schiavo's marriage. That's fair game!
5) Terri Schiavo's parents used Medicaid checks and a $1 million medical liability lawsuit award to keep litigating her case -- and the GOP is now trying desperately to limit both of those venues dramatically.
As an aside, I cannot believe the vitriolic, hateful rhetoric these guys use against Michael Schiavo. Watching Bay Buchanan call him "the lowest of the low" on CNN, listening to the vicious way DeLay talks about him -- what the hell do they know about him? It's like this political reflex to destroy the target, whatever it is, just raze it to the ground with words. And last week DeLay was speechifying about how Democrats are using "the politics of personal destruction" against him. Jesus.
posted by Will @ 3/23/2005 02:59:00 PM
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