That said, I feel like laying low for awhile from politics. The Republican Party has failed us in this. I just want to lay low. In other words, I'm not waving the flag for them for the time being. I'm being apolitical and just hanging on the religious threads and the "bread and circuses" threads that keep me satisfied in my peon status.
The state gives me bread and American Idol; what more do I need? (/sarcasm)
"I feel like laying low for awhile from politics."
You and 3-5 million other Christian pro-lifers.
What happened the past two weeks is unbelievable.
The Republicans CANNOT undo the damage they did by letting Terri die. All they can do to prevent the damage from getting WORSE is to pass the Nuclear Option, quickly, so that at least we can start getting judges up there who won't do this again...maybe.
Problem is, Thomas and Scalia, and dozens of other Republican judges, did not intervene to save Terri. When they have wanted to, they have always been capable of finding an argument. They didn't want to.
The Nuclear Option is not really going to FIX the issue, because it merely means putting judges on the judiciary we HOPE will do the right thing. The only thing that passing the Nuclear Option really does is send a message to the pro-life Christians that we have no been abandoned.
But don't hold your breath.
The truth is that we have probably been abandoned.
Were we fools for not seeing how we were being played all along?
Perhaps yes.
But we're not fooled anymore.
Life and death is beyond the ability of the spin-meisters to spin.
I see Gary Bauer is out there trying to put a brave face on it, saying how this shows more than ever how we need to be committed to the Republicans, in order to protect life.
Are you convinced?
Me neither.
No.
The Republicans have to SHUT UP and ACT.
I don't believe a word they say any more.
Neither do you.
If we are representative of millions of Christian pro-lifers, and I suspect we are, then the Republican majority died with Terri.
Unless those Republicans ACT.
Not talk.
ACT.