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Where there is a Will, there is a way (to explain away.)

Now it is the Terri Intervention (pandering)...

It appears as if the Terri Factor is redefined, as if it were a non-conservative act of the Republicans to try to save Terri through the methods they used and by projection, to save her innocent life at all. It sounds as if the act of trying to save an innocent life is subsumed into a greater wrong of using the big government to bully. This is George Will, but George Orwell must be amazed. Because of this interpretation, the voices of the "right" can support the desires of the bioethickists and get the euthanasia show on the road post haste, squishing embryos and snuffing the infirm with impunity.

Of course the election-turning issue was not that $223 million bridge in Alaska, or even the vice of which it is emblematic -- incontinent spending by a Republican-controlled Congress trying to purchase permanent power. Crass spending (the farm and highway bills, the nearly eightfold increase in the number of earmarks since 1994) and other pandering (e.g., the Terri Schiavo intervention) have intensified as Republicans' memories of why they originally sought power has faded.

Sorry about that, Republicans, but you had it coming

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Here is another example of the redefining of the issue. The Terri Factor must loom heavily over their shoulders as the left and the useful idiots try to redefine her legacy into something bad for conservatives...

Sarah Chamberlain, the partnership's director, complained that GOP leaders had rejected popular causes such as the minimum wage, embryonic stem cell research, and lobbying reforms while ignoring health care issues that did not involve Terri Schiavo. The result, she said, was that moderate voters in the suburbs saw Republicans as extremists.

GOP pointing fingers -- at itself

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