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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Sunday, March 20, 2005

DeLay challenges Schavio to schoolyard battle

I bet this qualifies him for Wanker of the day:
DeLay, who has been personally chastising Michael Schiavo, did not spare him on Saturday. "I don't have a whole lot of respect for a man that has treated this woman in this way," he said. "What kind of man is he?"

He's a man who has suffered with his wife in a bread dead state for the last fifteen years, hoping for eight of those years for her to get better before finally relenting on her wishes not to be forced to live like this. He's a man who I have no doubt cares much for Terri and wants the best for her now.

Seriously, with all this talk of saving her life I have to ask what kind of life does she really have? Part of her brain has turned to fluid. As much as her parents would like, it is not going to reform into any useful solid between now and the time that she passes away.

It's funny to me that in this instance, the Christian Conservatives want science to trump G-d. Were we 100 years ago, this would not be an issue. Terri would be buried and Michael would not have to listen to Tom DeLay talk out his ass. G-d would have already called her home. But now, thanks to technology and science (which otherwise would be man's downfall), the right cheers science and it's advancements to further advance their own partisan rhetoric. And it's sad.

But back to DeLay. Tom, you should have to suffer half as much as this man has before you start ask questions like that one. Until you wife or loved one sits is her state for eight years, you have no room to talk.