I guess the only real worry is that they actually DO represent a voting majority in this country,, because there can surely be no doubt now that their real, and ugly, and bigotted and sick face is finally showing.

Wanting to drag this woman who has been in a persitant vegatitive state for over a decade is just sick, purely for political purposes. Creating a circus show over human tragedy isnt what i expect from my government.

4 more years of this, how much lower can they go ?

I practice law in this area, and have been in the room of the dying.  

I hope in my heart that poor Terri Schiavo is dragged onto the floor of the Senate.  The Dems will take power back sooner than you can yell Newt Gingrich in a burning room.  The threat of subpoena in the arena of the dying will only create emnity in the American public.  Look at the CNN poll on permanent vegitative states.

This proves, once again, if you overreach while in power in American politics, you get burned for a generation.

... the biggest difference right now between liberals and republicans is that liberals believe that God is big enough to intervene in people's lives without passing a law on it and Republicans say that "God would want me to pass laws against things that displease Him.

Now, what Republicans don't think about is that

• "other people" believe in God also,
  
• God, is big enough to deal with peoples' individual mistakes
  
• Some people don't believe in God but it doesn't bother Him
  
• God expects us to be good examples of His love not Save the World.

They don't know the meaning of Christian compassion. In their hands it (Christianity )becomes twisted and ugly.

What a horrible spectacle they are making of this issue

I think we are missing the opportunity to remind people that just this week the House voted to cut 14 BILLION dollars out of the Medicade budget, and I find it hard to imagine that such a cut will not result in denying medical care that could be very life-giving, to a lot of poor and nameless people.  I think we should be reminding of that vote -- who voted for the House Republican Budget -- and which Republicans crossed the aisle and refused to support the cuts in the Senate.  

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Crack TNR editorial assistant Ben Adler recently fished this H.W. Bush quote out of the TNR archives (from the November 23, 1987 issue):

GHWB: "I think it's a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system and run the risk of [hurting] the people who've been saving all their lives.... It may be a new idea, but it's a dumb one."

For those keeping score, the comment came in response to a question from fellow presidential candidate Pete du Pont during a presidential debate. Du Pont was an advocate of partially privatizing the program.

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Bushypoop needs to listen to his dad more often. He wouldn't get us stuck in quagmires and potentially ruin the lives of old folks.

There are also rumors going around that her husband stands to benefit financially from her death (LIE!).  Last night Pat Robertson hinted that Mr. Schiavo may have physically abused his wife and the coma was the result of him hitting her.   My wish is that Mrs. Schiavo will experience peace as she dies. My second wish is that this incident will prove to be the undoing of the republican party's stranglehold on this country.  

That would be a real gift.  

Let's see them all jump the shark.

Then we can convert our natural advantage on issues into a coherent attack narrative that gives us a cultural argument, a game changer politically to show how the American Taliban Right Wing fundies are trying to Take Over Your Family By Any Means Necessary.

We need the children of the people to want to change their names.  We need to make these people not like crazy cousins but like crazy, dangerous, evil brownshirts in the culture.  We need wankers like Lieberman to pontificate against the craven immorality of the so-called morality police.

That's what we need, and I'm really getting impatient for us to get there, after our wakening to success in beating back the Social Security Abolition Movement.

Reform.  Truth.  Integrity.  Shared Prosperity.  Fairness.  Equality.  Freedom.

Welcome the new "New Democrats."

Don't fuck with us.

They have complete control over her and they may well love that.

The judge who ruled that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube must be removed is actually acting as a true conservative - he is reaffirming the legal reality that, lacking a living will or explicit directions from Terri Schiavo, it is the husband's right and responsibility to speak for his wife in this matter.

The judge, by his decision yesterday, is also reaffirming that this is not government's business, but rather a matter left to Terri Schiavo's husband and doctors, since Terri was an adult when her heart stopped and she suffered the brain damage that put her into a coma.

There is nothing conservative, on the other hand, about the people who are destroying our government from within.

I will not speak of them, however, but of those on both sides of the aisle in the national legislature who are abetting these people in power who would dismantle our government.  

Our congressmen and senators, Democrats and Republicans alike, are choosing to distract themselves and the nation, via the media coverage of their hearings and subpoenas, using the matters of Terri Schiavo and baseball, of all things, as wedge issues to distract and  divide we citizens and to destroy their own power as a legislative body.

Congress is playing itself these days like a campaign spin room for social fundamentalists:  Rather than concentrating on the business of the People in pressing matters like the budget, foreign policy, national security, and U.S. infrastructure, Congress spends it's days interviewing bulked-up former super-athletes and busies itself by subpoenaing a woman who can neither walk, talk, nor eat for herself.

This is deconstructivism at its worst.

They have complete control over us and they may well love that.