Glenn Reynolds (Salon): Will the GOP need life support?

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Dated Thursday March 31

Will the GOP need life support?
A prominent conservative blogger says Republican leaders have abandoned the traditional principles of small government and federalism -- and warns they may soon come to regret it.
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds

The Terri Schiavo story is a tragedy in the truest sense. It is a case in which there are no happy endings and in which the mighty fall. One thing that has fallen is the notion of the Republican Party as a bastion of federalism and limited government. Some might argue that this notion was already in doubt, in light of the Bush administration's less-than-parsimonious budgeting, but pork is part of politics, and you have to expect a certain amount of give in that department.

Widespread Republican support for legislation taking an individual case away from state judges and placing it in front of the federal judiciary is another thing. The "if it saves just one life, it's worth it" argument has more typically been associated with gun-control activists, and other groups that are generally looked down upon by Republicans, but now many in the GOP seem to have picked it up as a slogan. Indeed, the entire notion of the "rule of law" -- itself once a favored slogan of conservatives -- seems to have fallen into disrepute. Quite a few conservatives are unhappy about that state of affairs, and I wonder if it doesn't presage a realignment within the Republican Party, and the fracturing of some alliances on the right.

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[Gloria]

1. No. They will find a way to spin it to their advantage...see this thread..

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0513,mondo1,62491,6.html

[Jack Rabbit]

2. While your in Salon, you might want to read Blumenthal's piece

It will soon appear in the Guardian and no doubt will be posted here by someone. Blumenthal thinks Bush will now appear to be a tool of religious whackos.

The GOP ran into a mind field this time. The only problem for the Democrats is they may not have seemed to care and didn't put up much of a fight. This make the Republicans look bad without making the Democrats look good.

On the other hand, trhe Democrats look good on Social Security. And Tom DeLay is not a Democrat.

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3. Sucks to be a hypocrtiical Republican...........

suckes to be them..............