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The Blog for Wednesday, March 23, 2005

More Schiavo Punditry

    Daniel Ruth asks
    what kind of man would insert himself into the Schiavo family tragedy to appease the Christian right wing, cloaking himself in a vestment of deceits rivaling a Nuremberg defendant?

    It has been DeLay and his fellow travelers of prevarication who have been suggesting Terri Schiavo is sitting in her Pinellas Park hospice reading Vogue, having her eyebrows waxed and dishing gossip with her girlfriends while Michael Schiavo lingers outside her door fingering a garrote.

    "She talks and she laughs and she expresses likes and discomforts," DeLay lied the other day.

    Talking? Laughing? That would be a pretty neat trick considering the opinions of countless medical experts, seven years of court testimony and the conclusion of a guardian ad litem appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush, all asserting Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state.

    Oh, and then there is the brain scan showing fluid has replaced brain tissue.

    But the Goober of the Rio Bravo wasn't alone in treating Terri Schiavo as if she was his own personal lawn jockey of the right-to-life movement.
    "Tom DeLay Awards Badge Of Honor". I'd like to see Ruth strike a little closer to home, looking at the remarks of the oh so substantive Cellophane Man, who first hit the national scene by taking Elian Gonzalez to Disney world and now, along with "Jeb!" is primarily responsible for this fiasco.

    This is a good start:
    Martinez, of course, wouldn't think of crossing his political masters, Gov. Jeb Bush and President Bush.
    "Profiles in political courage".

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