Republican Stupidity

The award for the most over the top assessment of the Terri Schiavo issue, replete with crucifixion analogies and hysterical predictions, goes to Cal Thomas. Enjoy the references to the Holocaust and slavery, but ‘conservatives’ can still take comfort in the fact that fags are not mentioned, and should probably be considered fair game.

I actually saw this Saturday night after the WVU game and had to wait for the transcript. Here it is, in all its glory:

It’s Easter weekend and those who believe Easter is about something other than bunny rabbits, dyed eggs and marshmallow chickens, will find it eerie that a type of passion play is playing out in Florida.

Terry Schiavo has been sentenced to death.

One does not wish to push the analogy too far. Easter remains a unique event, but it will not be lost on the millions, who observe it as the death of an innocent man for guilty men and women, that Terri Schiavo does not deserve to die.

Those Catholics and evangelical Protestants who voted for President Bush in large numbers will be heartened that he and a republican Congress came to the aid of this Catholic woman in her time of distress. Beyond the politics, though, is something more important.

Our “evolving standards,” as Justice Kennedy recently called them in a death penalty case, means all of us are potentially at risk of euthanasia if we do not measure-up to cultural and arbitrary whims imposed by unaccountable judges. Do you see where this is headed?

Today, it’s Terri Schiavo. Tomorrow it could be you or me.

As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to “free-up” more money for the “fit” and those who contribute more than they take from society.

Events like this should not be seen in a vacuum. When one category of life is deemed unworthy of protection

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Many are beginning to recognize that pandering to lunatics like Randall Terry and his supporters was a bad idea:

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has joined fellow Republicans in shameless grandstanding on this case, at least has refused to be pressured by the Schindlers and others to take extraordinary

Living With the RadicalsPost + Comments (9)

The DeLay Dilemma:

A family tragedy that unfolded in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal

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K-LO is losing her mind:

SPARING ELK A PAINFUL DEATH [K. J. Lopez]

“Five stranded elk shot; they faced slow starvation”

Posted at 09:01 AM

So we should shoot Terri Schiavo with a high-powered rifle?

“THE COWS SUFFERED TREMENDOUSLY.” [K. J. Lopez]

Vermont farmer prosecuted for starving his cattle to death.

Posted at 01:43 PM

You are comparing Terri Schiavo to farm animals?

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Boortz is making sense:

So, there he was … Randall Terry, the anti-abortion zealot, screaming outside of the nursing home housing Terri Schiavo. He was screaming something about “hell to pay” if Terri Schiavo dies. He then went on to rant a bit about all of the work that the anti-abortion movement did to elect these Republicans, and that now is the time for them to deliver and perform.

You know what? This time Randall Terry may just be right. There just may be a political price to pay. But Terry is right for the wrong reasons. Republicans may pay a political price not because they didn’t do enough to prolong the torture of Terri Schiavo, but because they did too much.

Have you seen today’s approval ratings for President Bush? They’re down. Way down. He’s down to 45%. He was at 52% one week ago. This is the lowest point in his presidency. These polls are not because he hasn’t done enough in the Schiavo matter. The downtrend is because he did too much. The largest loss of support was among conservative male church-goers. A majority of the American people were not impressed with the Republican Party’s late night grandstanding this past Sunday, and Bush’s rush back to Washington to sign a bill in the early hours of the morning.

Maybe conservative Republican politicians can learn a lesson from this. They were elected to reduce the size and intrusiveness of the Imperial Federal Government of the United States. They were elected to reduce our tax burden and lower government spending. They were elected to defend us against threats from abroad, specifically the threat of Islamic terrorism … and to do so with preemptive action if necessary. In spite of the delusions of grandeur of the abortocentrist crowd and religious extremists, George Bush was not elected to facilitate a government takeover of the ovaries of every fertile American woman, nor was he elected to establish a theocracy.

Perhaps Republicans will take note. I truly believe that their control of the House of Representatives may be in jeopardy in next year’s elections. Perhaps they’ll learn from this. Maybe they’ll start dancing with who brung them for a change, and pay attention to spending and tax cuts, school choice, national defense and individual liberty.

Some lessons are just learned the hard way.

The leadership in our party has lost their way. If they ever had a way, and weren’t just selling me a bill of goods.

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When I state repeatedly (and hysterically, as some have commented) that the extremists are taking unprecedented measures to have their way, and that this is destroying our democracy and our system of justice, I am talking about things like this:

Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted — but they stopped short when local police told them they would enforce the judge’s order, The Herald has learned.

Agents of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement told police in Pinellas Park, the small town where Schiavo lies at Hospice Woodside, on Thursday that they were on the way to take her to a hospital to resume her feeding.

For a brief period, local police, who have officers at the hospice to keep protesters out, prepared for what sources called “a showdown.”

In the end, the squad from the FDLE and the Department of Children & Families backed down, apparently concerned about confronting local police outside the hospice.

”We told them that unless they had the judge with them when they came, they were not going to get in,” said a source with the local police.

”The FDLE called to say they were en route to the scene,” said an official with the city police who requested anonymity. “When the sheriff’s department and our department told them they could not enforce their order, they backed off.”

The incident,known only to a few and related to The Herald by three different sources involved in Thursday’s events, underscores the intense emotion and murky legal terrain that the Schiavo case has created. It also shows that agencies answering directly to Gov. Jeb Bush had planned to use a wrinkle in Florida law that would have allowed them to legally get around the judge’s order. The exception in the law allows public agencies to freeze a judge’s order whenever an agency appeals it.

Read the whole thing. Then, an exercise. Ask yourself who should have the authority to be making the decisions regarding Terri Schiavo.

The Florida Circuit Courts?
The Appeals Courts?
The Florida Supreme Court?
The United States Supreme Court?
Governor Bush?
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement?
The Department of Children and Families?
The National Right to Life group?
The US House of Representatives?
Randall Terry?
Tom DeLay?
Bill Frist?
The United States Senate?
Sean Hannity?

If you answered anything other than Michael Schiavo, you are part of the problem.

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And the violence and calls for violence from the lunatic followers of scum like Brian Mahoney and Randall Terry, just as I predicted, begins.

A man arrested in Buncombe County Friday was charged with threatening the husband of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the center of the right-to-die case gripping the country.

Richard Alan Meywes was arrested in Fairview by the FBI and the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI said in a prepared statement.

Meywes is accused of sending an e-mail putting a $250,000 bounty “on the head of Michael Schiavo” and another $50,000 to eliminate a judge who denied a request to intervene in the Schiavo case, the FBI said. The FBI did not immediately identify the judge.

“The e-mail also made reference to the recent death of a judge in Atlanta and the death of (a) judge’s family members in Illinois,” the FBI said.

Meywes faces federal charges of murder for hire and transmission of interstate threatening communications.

Sane Republicans better start to come to grips with what we have created.

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