Posted on 04/09/2005 10:14:10 AM PDT by smoothsailing
They are "backed up" by strawman polls, polls offering a strawman with a cortex made of straw--"Gee, Marge, why keep it alive?"
The fleshed-out reality is that Bill Frist, MD, never looked better, stronger, more likable than Friday March 18 on the floor of the Senate calling for another look, as he was "troubled" by the failure to do a "complete neurological exam".
Tom Delay looked good fighting against a "swamp judge."
Our president looked good with a call to "err on the side of life" and shooing the aircrew of AF1 into the cockpit early Sunday March 20.
Then the swamp judge and his gang bros spit on the Washington wingtips who all, save Delay, mumbled "we've done everything we could do."
Delay still looks good; the others to greater or lesser degree will improve with testosterone therapy and a review of the Constitution and oath of office.
I'm not Mort Kondracke; I'm just one of those people with the fundraising photographs adorning the refrigerator responding to the real polling--that form with methods of payment following a cheery letter.
I find politicians who get their legal advice from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy a real turnoff. Call me cranky.
http://www.priestsforlife.org/euthanasia/terri.htm
GOP isn't hurt? Read about Terri before we decide that the GOP is blameless. I realize I'm preaching to the choir here but lurkers should visit this link.
Yes, I urged Lindsey to DO SOMETHING. He was so worried about terrorists with panties on their heads but what about Terri?????
DeLay Bump.
She did not die a painless death. She was gasping for air the last day like a goldfish out of a bowl and she looked like a holocaust victim.
NOT A PROUD MOMENT FOR THE UNITED STATES.
"Obviously people like the writer of that letter have no family and no concept of this. I suspect it is literally true that most people who think this way have no family: in many cases, they are unmarried or have been married several times and are between spouses, or have never married and have had serial "girlfriends" or "boyfriends"(even though they are well past the age of being boys or girls), or despite the fact that they are unmarried have probably lost several children to abortion, are probably part of one or two-child families that are not very close, and have a rather distant relationship with their parents.
They don't trust anyone, they regard the state as their parent, but they know the state will be relentless in getting rid of them when they become a "burden." So their life is pretty bleak, they're accepting it, and they're projecting this on all the rest of us.
But it does show you how closely tied are life issues and family issues."
There HAS to be something wrong with people who are so pro-death and as cold as ice.
"It only hurt Republicans such as Jeb Bush who could have but did not help Terri."
What else would you have had him do? Send in state troopers to shoot at the local police?
"She will be his Mary Jo."
Oh spare me the B.S. please! This hatred for Jeb Bush is getting a little old.
Did you notice that the Orlando-based columnist Charley Reese came out after Terri's death praising both MRS and George W. Greer?
This article is so stupid. I was glad that Wash intervened until I realized that the Republicans were going to stand around and let Terri die after all. It was insane! It was like the GOP politicians figured they'd look good by saving Terri but then changed their minds when the polls went against them (seemingly) and then the monsters went and backed down. I WILL NEVER TRUST A POLITICIAN EVER AGAIN!!!
Thanks for the creepy letter from the University of Florida hometown newspaper. If he pretends to argue biology I wonder why he does not account for the fact that DNA is unique, not common?
To add to our creepy vision of the University of Florida, this morning I read an opinion article in the Gainesville Sun saying substantially the same thing as the letter I posted, although a little more refined and minus the bit about the cockroaches - and the article was written by a professor of neurology at the University.
Pretty scary, no? And these are the people who are teaching science and medicine to our future medical providers.
It seemed obvious to me from watching the shiavo coverage that a group has emerged called medical ethicists. Their version of ethics is not based on good and bad, as ethics is, or on the first principle of the Hippocratic oath. Rather, they claim the primacy of privacy and choice. they are a very odd, steely-eyed, scary bunch. The last night that guy Wolsfon appeared on TV in a black shirt and black leather jacket. With his scraggly hairy face, he could have been a vampire.
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