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Democrats still unhinged over Schiavo case

by JohnHuang2

In a sign of how unhinged liberals have all become over Terri, I just finished reading the gazillionth story about how unhinged the GOP has become over Terri. And about the joys of starving to death, the hottest new craze sweeping the Nation magazine. (The incredible thrill of going malnourished never leaves you.) Millions of Zimbabweans live on the brink of starvation, so they've never had it so good.

Yet, fact is, it is illegal to starve a cow, which is precisely why it's illegal to stop feeding Michael Moore. Renowned medical professionals like Robert Wexler, who has diagnosed Terri from the studios of CNN, says her case isn't unique, that there are hundreds of thousands of cases like hers, where government decides to withhold food and water -- but enough about the Sudan.

Liberals, trying to win their noble life-and-death fight to keep Terri from being fed, offer a motley of asinine reasons the Asinine Party says justifies killing Terri (then getting her registered to vote). If I get the gist of their "argument," they say Terri's incapable of feeling pain, so they give her morphine to ease the tremendous euphoria of dehydrating to death which you couldn't do to ol' Barney no matter how 'slow' ol' Barney gets but Terri is not a Scottish terrier so there's no need to treat her humanely. Besides, she's been dead for 15 years, so you don't want to hurt her by doing things like keeping her alive through artificial means like food and water which prolong her suffering since she's unconscious and people in a 'Persistent Vegetative State' feel no pain or suffering, which means Terri's just a corpse, so Michael's marriage to her is alive and his efforts to end the corpse's life shows that he honors the sanctity of marriage. Michael says Terri has spent the last 15 years dead so it's time to let her die. And time for her parents to 'honor' their daughter's wish -- dying at the hands of her loving husband who found another honey after she became ill. It takes a 'right-wing' fanatic to think the philandering cad's priorities are not in Terri's best interest.

Such clear, coherent thinking is also amply displayed by Andrew Sullivan in his latest piece, cryptically titled, Terri is the dying martyr the Republican right can use. Regarding the killing of a disabled woman, Sullivan goes straight to the heart of the problem: People who go to church. And vote.

"Those of us who long worried that unleashing religious fundamentalism into the bloodstream of American politics would lead to disaster can feel only that our fears have now come true," writes Sullivan, his jaws shivering, his body trembling with horror. Our society prides itself as open and tolerant. So why do we let people like Jerry Falwell vote? Religious fundamentalists, using secret infrared rays, have taken control of the GOP, Congress, and the Presidency, Sullivan writes, gasping for breath. With their nifty wireless remotes, they got Congress and the President to intervene in a family matter -- in effect, giving "government" a "final say" in decisions which belong to private individuals, such as judge George Greer. It "strikes me as grossly inappropriate," notes Sullivan, adding: "You want proof that the religious right runs the Republican Party?"

But then, in paragraph #18 of Sullivan's piece, we learn that the Prez, rather than being under the control of pro-life 'fanatics' as he had been in the preceding 17 paragraphs, is really a pro-death fanatic who "signed countless death warrants as governor of Texas, with the most cursory of legal reviews." So, Bush is a pro-life fanatic and a pro-death fanatic meddling in a judge's decision to pull Terri's feeding tube -- a decision upheld by the U.S. Supremes, half of whom are on feeding tubes.

(Liberals insist there was no justification for intervention by Republicans in Congress, pointing to federal courts which reviewed the case to make sure judge Greer was right in ruling Terri's brain to be only three-fifths human.)

Greer determined that Terri would want to dehydrate based on the Clear and Convincing standard of hear-say table-talk. Terri's still alive after going without food and water for almost two weeks -- that's how badly she wanted to die.

Dr. Bernadine Healy, professor, cardiologist and former Director of the Institutes of Health, told Hardball Tuesday that "in terms of a quality of mercy in this case, I do not believe that it has occurred at the level of giving (Terri) a fair medical examination. I'm speaking about her as a patient; I'm not speaking about her as a law case; I'm not speaking about her at the Supreme Court. I'm talking about the fact that no one should die without a state-of-the-art medical evaluation. (Terri) did not have a doctor evaluating her since 2002. The most recent neurologist to see her said she thought she was not a vegetable."

Yet, "When I saw" Terri, with her sunken eyes, parched skin, seared lips, caked mouth and swollen tongue, "she looked beautiful," George Felos told reporters Saturday. "In all the years I've seen Mrs. Schiavo," she's never looked better than after a week of dehydrating. He said that what he saw, as her nose bled, bladder burned and brain cells dried out, was the "look of beauty". Since this little sick maggot is Michael's insane lawyer, I presume Michael also thinks now that his wife is in the process of being drained of body fluid in that wonderful slaughter house called a 'hospice', she's never looked hotter. (Felos is so fascinated with death, he calls visits to the cemetery, 'Happy Hour'. In the morning, happiness is coffee, eggs, sausage and the obits.) Killing the brain-damaged, the mentally impaired, the disabled, the 'undesirables', the unborn -- Hitler would be a Democrat today.

Anyway, that's...

My two cents

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[MikefromOhio]

so are the Republicans and especially FR....

[dutchess]

It's Thursday at the Finest... The left still doesn't get it as John so eloquently tells us in his own words. Join us for another dose of John's 2 cents...This one is stark with lack of pictures...I think the words speak for themself.

P.S. Warning...this thread deals with Terri...speical prayers for Terri and her family and also for Pope John Paul.

[Lancey Howard]

I assure you, I am not at all "unhinged" over the court-ordered murder of Terri Schiavo.
Appalled, disgusted, sad.... yeah, of course.
This murder sure has been excruciating to follow these past couple of weeks - - this has got to be one of the most lengthy and barbaric murders in history!

Too bad nobody in charge would do anything to stop it.

Tick.... tick....

[Mama_Bear]

Thank you both.

[MikefromOhio]

just wait until she passes...you will see an Fr like you have never seen...and it will be pathetic....

I would certainly expect:

Calls for violence

Calls for impeachment

death threats

general hysteria

people saying the government is coming RIGHT NOW

and some good old fashioned Democrat hating. it will be a long and sad day. I hope no one gets stupid and makes things even worse.

[RasterMaster]

Well said...thanks for the post!

[speed_addiction]

just wait until she passes...you will see an Fr like you have never seen...and it will be pathetic....

I have been very outspoken in my outrage at what is being perpetrated on this poor woman. I have even shed tears of frustration over it, but my fight was for her to be allowed to live. Once she dies, it is no longer my fight. Greer, Michael Schaivo and the people who allowed this to happen are going to be held accountable some day and it won't be to me, to the Republicans or to FR. It is God who will have the last say on this one.

[annajones]

Thanks duthcess/John. Very creative, but sadly true.

[MikefromOhio]

It is God who will have the last say on this one.

you got that right. But believe me, it will happen on some scale or another.

[Lancey Howard]

Yes. This case will haunt the nation for years - - regardless of what the spineless politicians hope for. This will not go away. They will all be looking for an angle, or a way to "position" themselves depending on the direction of the wind. Either that or heading for the high grass.

It's a shame, too. Only a week ago, somebody in a position to act could have nailed down a place in history and had the nation at their feet by simply doing the right thing. Somebody needed to take extraordinary measures to save the life of this innocent American citizen.

.... tick.... tick....

[speed_addiction]

Yes. This case will haunt the nation for years - - regardless of what the spineless politicians hope for. This will not go away. They will all be looking for an angle, or a way to "position" themselves depending on the direction of the wind. Either that or heading for the high grass.

I think that in the outrage tht is sure to follow Terri's death, the ones who voted to save her life will be seen as being in the right. The ones who voted for her to die and the ones who hid behind not casting a vote at all are going to suffer greatly for this. This will come up when they campaign in 2006. Their opponents will bring it up, count on it. How can they answer?

[Lexinom]

It will be a sad day, but not for the reasons you've described. It will be a sad day because someone has died needlessly. It will be a pathetic day for that reason. It will be a violent day for that reason - the violence being against Terri.

Some are more outraged over the outrage over the outrage than at the outrage itself.

[swilhelm73]

A true intellectual tour de force JohnHuang2. Excellently done.

[MikefromOhio]

I am just sick of the whole situation honestly.

[Lexinom]

I am too. No one seems to know what to do.

[MikefromOhio]

I did, but since I won't blame the Bushes, I am considered part of the culture of death by some....

Unfortunately, sometimes someone needs to die needlessly for a movement to get started. Judicial reforms? On their way most likely.

There is also a very very badly written law that the state of Florida passed. the one that says feeding tubes are considered the same as a ventilator. I dont know who sold them on this crap, but what's done is done.

protest if you like. But let's remember there is more than one person in that hospice and families in a time of great stress and grief in there as well. They dont need some nut yelling in a bull horn....

[dino1955]

Thanks, John and dutchess...well written and very compelling piece. I perceive there will be a fair amount of bitterness in this country after her death. I pray this is not the case.

[Lexinom]

Thanks for the well thought-out response.

Like you, I'm thousands of miles from the action.

Also like you for sure, I've got a job to do.