Say what?

MSNBC, reporting on Terri Schiavo:

“It gives Terri Schiavo another chance,” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said after the late-afternoon voice vote in a near-empty Senate chamber.

Another chance at what? To persist in a vegetative state for another 15 years?

It's sad to me that the final wishes of a woman and her husband could be usurped by 288 Republicans in Washington D.C. But what is more ominous to me is the fact that Republicans are willing to throw away the rule of law to do it. Perhaps the sanest political quote so far comes from Democrat Rep. James P. Moran, of Virginia:

"She's doing the best that she can trying to speak to my dad," in the footage, Schindler (Terri's brother), a high school science teacher, told Moran. "I urge you, in fact I am begging you to at least listen to these videos of my sister communicating with my father."

"I am happy to take a look at that," Moran replied. "But my greater concern is not with the immediate facts of this case as much as it is the precedent, of overruling the state courts, of politicizing a tragic family situation."

For me, the bigger issue is not the right of Terri to die, although I do support it, but rather the precedent it sets and the attempts to score political points off the tragedy of a highly publicized figure. If karma still has a place in this world, this whole affair will blow up in the faces of Frist, DeLay, and all Republicans come 2006.

P.S. There are posts all over such as this one explaining the hypocrisy of the right. I'm not going to add another one here.