Nope. You are telling it like you FEEL it is.
Re the so-called nuclear option. Personally, I'd rather see them return to true filibusters. Bring in the cots and keep everyone in session until the filibuster is broken. That's the honest way to do it.
As for the rest of it, take a chill pill, because you are, indeed, being an idiot. Betrayed? The entire legislative and executive branches of both the Florida and federal governments has tried to accommodate you people. They have gone WAY beyond in an effort to accommodate your point of view.
You are now demanding that the President and/or the governor of Florida betray their oaths of office, initiate severe national and state constitutional crises, and break the law in order to accommodate you.
You hypocrites make me sick. Why Schiavo? Hmmm... Why aren't you similarly screaming about every single case like this in the nation? Never remove life support measures from anyone under any circumstances, no matter how cruel, how inhumane, how unmerciful it would be to leave them hooked up. Set yourselves up as the god you profess to speak for, and try to never let anyone die under any circumstances. Call in the National Guard every time someone pulls the plug or removes feeding tubes.
Heck, why stop with the National Guard?! As long as you're throwing away every shred of constitutional government, throw away Posse Comitatus and call in the army.
Better yet, call in the militia that keeps saying it's going to go protect our borders (but instead retreats like cowards to remote places). Get them to surround the hospice, put guns to the heads of the doctors, and put the feeding tube back in.
How dare you whine about feeling betrayed, you ungrateful twit. I didn't see the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States disrupt their entire schedules, fly back to Washington, pass emergency legislation (and spend a lot of taxpayers money in the process) to represent my views. They represented your views.
The betrayal is the waffling on the nuclear option.
What is going on with Terry Schiavo was a betrayal of life by the courts. But we already knew the problem was in the courts.
The Executives, US and Florida, DO have the power to intervene. But asking them to do that is indeed asking them to provoke a Constitutional crisis. If they choose not to, as apparently they choose not to, they will be diminished in the eyes of many in the pro-life movement. But that is not a betrayal by the Republican party. It is the weakness of men pulling back from the brink of confrontation.
It is the other thing going on in Washington, the Republicans in the Senate pulling back from the nuclear option that will change the judiciary to end this madness of abortion and imperial judicial overreach: THAT is the betrayal that is unforgiveable.
They haven't done it yet.
Maybe they will come through.
If they do, they will have done what they were elected to do and will have the full support of their pro-life Christian base. If they don't, they will lose the pro-life Christian base, because there is nowhere to hide anymore when you have the power and refuse to exercise it to fulfill your promises.
The Schiavo case is tragic. There is a right answer. Maybe the men involved don't see it.
Their weakness is eventually forgivable.
Failure on the nuclear option is calculated, and not forgiveable.