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Terry Schiavo and Republican Hypocrisy.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Ant on March 21, 2005, 02:03:54 PM ---I'm beginning to wonder if the concept of hypocrisy even exists in the republican vocabulary, but once again you have republicans becoming blatant hypocrites in a disgusting attempt to score political points.
When I first started reading about this story and frequently saw the name Delay and Frist popping up in the article I was entirely confused. It didnt seem to make any sense that these two guys, one of them in the running for scumbag politician of the year, had anything to do with this story. And if there was any sense of sanity left in the GOP they would have nothing to do with this. Most real conservatives deep down probably have a pit in their stomach over this whole controversy, yet for the most part the party has remained silent and the democrats have played a long.
Real conservatives, and people in the know, understand the stupidity of the federal government intervening in this case. The republican's first commandment is government shall not get involved in our personal lives, yet eager to score political points with their new found crazy christian friends (since they didnt delivery much on their gay marriage promises) they stepped in to save poor Terry Schiavo from liberal "judicial terrorists" as one republican columnist called the judges who repeatedly decided that a brian-dead Terry Schiavo should be allowed to finally die.
So why do republicans care so much about Ms. Schiavo? A GOP memo sent to all republican senators says it all:
"This is an important moral issue and the pro-life base will be excited that the Senate is debating this important issue.
This is a great political issue, because Senator Nelson of Florida has already refused to become a cosponsor and this is a tough issue for Democrats. "
Republicans don't really care about Ms. Schiavo, nor should they, its not the governments job to get involved in every single medical issue. No, the real reason republicans are running around talking about "saving Terry's life" is because they know its an issue that will drive people like Trauma to the polls. But that's not the worst of it.
The worst part of the whole story is that it brought to our attention a little known law that Bush signed into Texas law while governor giving hospitals the right to pull the plug on patients on life-support if their family can no longer afford to pay for treatment. In fact, ironically, a baby was denied the right to life-support in Texas just this week against his mother's wishes.
Mr. Delay took up the Terry Schiavo case for political reasons after having his ass on the line for the past few months he needed a chance to pretend to be the good guy. But those in the know see this thing for what it really is. A disgusting display of republican's willingness to use a brain-dead woman for political gain.
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Props for explaining this to me, I couldn't figure out why it was getting so much media attention, there had to be a political agenda behind it. Actually though, for me it has been an interesting story because I work at a hospital, even though it happens everyday, now we are able to engage in public discourse about this subject.
Ant:
18 Lessons for the Sciavo Case... (stolen from a progressive blog)
# Jeb Bush, George W. Bush, and Tom Delay are all world renowned neurologists.
# 22 successive court battles that all ended in exactly the same way means there is something wrong with the courts, not the Schindler's case.
# Mike is after money which is why he turned down 1 million dollars and 10 million dollars to sign over guardianship.
# Congress and the State Legislature of Florida has nothing better to do than pry into the private medical affairs of others.
# Pulling life support is bad in Florida when authorized by the legal next-of-kin, but pulling life support is good in Texas when you run out of money and the mother pleads not to pull the plug on her baby.
# Medical diagnoses are best performed by watching highly editted videotape made by Randall Terry rather than in person by trained physicians.
# Minimum wage making nursing assistants are more qualified to diagnose a persistant vegetative state than experienced neurologists.
# Cerebral spinal fluid is a magical potion that can mimic the entire functions of a missing cerebral cortex.
# 15 years in the same persistant state is not really enough time to make an accurate diagnosis.
# A feeding tube that infuses yellow nutritional goop is not really "life support".
# Jesus was wrong when he said that a man and woman should leave their parents and cleave only to each other.
# Marriage is the most sacred of all unions, except when it isn't.
# Interfering in a family's private tragedy is a great reason to cut short a vacation, but getting a memo that warns a known terrorist is determine to strike inside the US is cause to relax and finish up some R&R.
# Pro-lifers are really compassionate people which is why they are hoping that Michael Schiavo dies a horrible painful death.
# The Supreme Court of the United States and the State Supreme Court of Florida mean "Maybe" when they are saying "No!".
# Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a bleeding heart liberal.
# 7 Supreme Court Justices were appointed by republican presidents, so it's Clinton's fault.
# A judge who makes rulings based on the law is obviously an atheist, liberal, democratic activist even though he is a conservative, republican, Southern Baptist.
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