Politicians gone wild
Yahoo! News - Bush Says Schiavo's Death Saddens Millions
Speaking with reporters later in Houston, DeLay said lawmakers "will look at an arrogant and out of control judiciary that thumbs its nose at Congress and the President."Asked if that included the possibility of the House bringing impeachment charges against judges involved in the Schiavo case, DeLay said, "There's plenty of time to look into that."
The whole 3 Branches of Government/Balance of Power concept was silly anyway. I mean, what's the point of government if politicians can't do whatever they want?
Posted March 31, 2005 4:48 PM
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This is less about this poor woman's "right to die" than it is about abortion and the future of stem cell research. The Republicans are posturing themselves for a suite of Supreme Court nominees.
In the words of Hendrik Hertzberg from the April 4 issue of The New Yorker, "Like a sixty-four-cell blastocyst, she [Terri] was without consciousness. Unlike the blastocyst, she was without potential. If letting her body die is murder, goes the logic, then thwarting the development of the blastocyst can be surely nothing less."
He goes on to say, "The death of Terri Schiavo's body will only enhance her symbolic value, elevating her to her destined place as a martyr in this dismal age of martyrs."
On the other hand, as the fictional Bob McKenzie, upon facing his imminent demise in a rapidly filling vat of beer, reflected, "My brother and I used to say that drowning in beer was like heaven, eh? Now he's not here, and I got two soakers... This isn't heaven, this sucks!
-Ronnie
Ronnie, April 2, 2005 12:09 PM
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