| Wednesday, June 15, 2005 |
01:32 - They don't make Hitlers like they used to
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1118894835.shtml
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Dean, who has had a dog in the Terry Schiavo fight since before most of the rest of us had heard her name, has a good reaction piece to the autopsy results today that ostensibly prove that the position he took was "wrong". The point being that it's just a bit fatuous to be drawing "right" and "wrong" lines in a case like this, and the consequences of erring on the one side versus the other are anything but balanced, particularly depending on your individual moral/ethical compass.
But that's just background. What I wanted to note was this:
In Washington, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the autopsy did nothing to change President Bush's position that Schiavo's feeding tube should not have been disconnected. He had signed a bill, rushed through by Congress in March, in a last-ditch effort to restore her feeding tube.
...And yet, somehow, the judicial arm of the government overrode him and brought his decree to naught.
Exactly what kind of Fuhrer is this? The kind that can be brought low by people working normally within the system? The kind who can't even intervene meaningfully in a life-or-death decison regarding a single citizen whose newsworthiness isn't even political?
Oh, but he's a Christian and a Republican, and you know what that means.
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Brian Tiemann
