This is what happened with regard to the Schiavo matter. Jeb Bush, the Republicans in Congress, and George Bush (to some extent) tried to stride the middle ground, or at least did not challenge the de facto judicial supremacy in the Federal and state governments. Resultantly, they alienated a large portion of the social conservatives even though their legalistic rationales pleased the RINOs and secular conservatives.
I only hope the aftermath of this situation is not Democratic victories in 2006 and 2008.
The aftermath of this will be a whole lot of people checking into hospice thinking that their DRN means one thing when it really means they just won't be getting dinner some day. No water either. But look how it will help those insurance companies.
If that happens, and Conservatives put the blame on our President and Gov. Bush, it will be because they are uninformed, and want us to throw the laws out the window. Then, God help us all.
I hate what Terri and her family is going through.
However, THE PEOPLE WHO CAN CAST THEIR BALLOTS AND VOTE need to put their money where their mouths are, do the research, and not vote for these bleeding heart liberal judges come next election.
I doubt if it will hurt the Republicans in 2006 and 2008, IF the GOP in the Senate use this judge's "power" as more of an impetus to get Bush's judicial nominees through--
Besides, what are the Democrats gonna pound their chests about regarding this situation? They all ran away and hid like girly-men and girly-girls---especially the "leaders" like Hilary, Biden, Reid, Pelosi---haven't seen any of them on TV since BEFORE the vote two weekends ago---
NO, the Reps handled this awkwardly, the Bushs perhaps didn't do enough, or did too much, BUT the dems were AWOL (as usual)
Resultantly, they alienated a large portion of the social conservatives even though their legalistic rationales pleased the RINOs and secular conservatives.
I maintain they have alienated both sides of the issue with Pubs. The "alleged" RINOs and secular conservatives (and libertarian conservatives) are disgusted with both Bushes over the federal vs. state rights issue, and as soon as Terri dies, the social conservatives will hate them because they didn't get what they wanted. All will be disgusted with Congress for one reason or the other here. Therefore, I'm afraid the true loser will be the Pub party as a whole, and could have bad consequences in the 2006 and 2008 elections, caused by disgruntled Pubs, on both sides of the issue.
If, before the next election, the Republican leadership starts working to put members of the Pinellas County GOP Syndicate behind bars, they can probably come out okay. If they don't, they're nothing but crooks and deserve to be tossed out with the garbage.