“This is a complex case with serious issues. But extraordinary circumstances like this, it is wise to always err on the side of life.” Those were the words of George W. Bush regarding Terri Schiavo (and Rush wouldn’t lie to us about it).
Just to remind you, W. is the man who rushed through 152 executions as governor of Texas. Because there couldn’t possibly be any errors there, right? I mean, just because three of those men had lawyers who slept through their trials, no reason to err on the side of life, right?
I’m so glad he deigned to end his vacation early to deal with this great ethical dilemma (something that he didn’t do for the tsunami last Christmas that killed 100,000 or so, including 1200 Americans) just as he spent so much time thinking about the ethics of stem cell research in the summer of 2001 that he ignored a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In The United States”.
Good grief.
While I vehemently hate W., I try to comfort myself by thinking, “unlike so many of his close associates, he actually believes that what he’s doing is right, and he does very much want to do right.”
How hard that is to believe when I see stuff like this, though.
(For what it’s worth, I think that Dick Cheney, however, is a zombie kept living purely by the power of evil. But that’s beside the point.)
Well, Andy, according to John Stewart, Cheney is a cyborg. Now I’m going to wonder all day; evil cyborg or evil zombie. I hope it doesn’t keep me up at night.
This whole Schiavo case has one purpose: to distract us from the real problems in this administration. DeLay’s ethics? The war? The crushing debt? The trade imbalance? Gutting Social Security? Cutting benefits for the poor? Forget them. Let’s talk about wacko Jacko or Scott Peterson or Terry Schiavo. All of these stories have sooooo much more relevance to our lives than the things the Administration are doing to us.