It takes two to play Political Tango

[MsMagnificent]

We should be sitting this one out.

Face it, dying of starvation and dehydration is a horrible way to die; and we are not Terri Schiavo's immediate family who are impacted daily with her suffering.

Let the Reprobates politicize if they must, with that bill Bushit signed in 1999 he looks pretty damn foolish & hypocritical; and amazingly, for once MSM isn't ignoring his Flip-Flops. But personally I think we should just back out of any dialog or confrontation. That entire issue remains with Terri Schiavo's family and the courts, we have no right to make it, nor should we return the political attacks.

If we decry the Reprobates politicizing this unfortunate case, by our take-the-opposite-point responses we are just as guilty of politicizing it also.


BTW, I've followed the Schiavo case for years now, and the things being said against her husband are far from new - but that still does not give me the right to even begin to think I can decide this poor woman's fate, especially based from a political, not familial, point of view.

--if she was in your family would you want her used as bait in a national political tug-of-war? Let it go, it does not behoove us.

[bigtree]

1. but we didn't

many on our side actually voted with the republicans on this, as they did on ANWAR and the bankruptcy bill. What happened to abstaining?

[freedom_to_read]

2. I agree up to a point

We should not be trying to decide the Schiavo case.

BUT we should point out the dangerous precedent the Congress has set by overturning a valid legal decision (actually a series of decisions) for political gain.

It is unconstitutional, immoral, cheap, and tawdry. Another "by their fruits shall ye know them" moment for Bush and the GOP.

[MsMagnificent]

4. True, but this issue is only going to hurt us

People will bring out not the manipulation of justice, but they will spin it into Democrats being 'pro-death'.

There will be more, this administration can't keep it's dirty fingers out of our courts... we'll have our chance.

But this is only going to hurt us, badly.

[bigtree]

5. There has been a marked increase in the numbers of applications

for living wills. According to one rep, over 2000 a day. This would suggest to me that the main concern of most Americans is with the intrusion of government into their right to die and the decisions and wishes of their loved ones, not with some pollyanish propaganda from the right to life crowd.

[seabeyond]

3. repug judge that heard case, repug gov bush that interferred

repug right wing christian orginization that created to do, repug delay that brought it to congress, repug house and senate that interferred unconstitutionally, repug pres that signed, adn now back to a repug federal judge to decide

i am not seeing a lot of democrat in all this

[MsMagnificent]

6. Right, but

what I'm saying is the Reprobates have spun yards of rope to hang themselves, let's just let them do it without us.

Let's KEEP the Democrat out (witness all the TS threads here)

Any knee-jerk (or otherwise) reaction to this whole sad story could possibly be twisted against us... we don't need to weigh in, the lack of judiciary ethics and public outrage is rolling along just fine without our politicizing the other side.

We (we the people -- half the Democrats on the hill are Reprobates in disguise anyhow), for once, can sit back and watch a rightful show.


Edit:

Article from St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay Online

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/22/Tampabay/Schiavo_politics_far_.shtml


Schiavo politics far from usual

Politicians - especially Democrats - may be divided over the Terri Schiavo case, but the public certainly isn't.

Poll after poll finds overwhelming majorities...

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"DEMOCRATS Divided"?! We shouldn't be IN there! The story is the Reprobates (yes with some Dem help) to a man decided to circumvent Federal law! It's NOT ABOUT US, and they're trying to make us the scapegoat yet again WHEN THEY DID IT!