‘Grotesque’ or life-saving drama at the Capitol? (msnbc story)

.......While lawmakers sought to frame the debate in terms of moral and constitutional principles, reporters on Capitol Hill kept peppering legislators with questions about political motives and whether the Democrats or the Republicans would be the winners in this drama........

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7243574/

‘Grotesque’ or life-saving drama at the Capitol?
Extraordinary Sunday session raises political questions


By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
Updated: 8:49 a.m. ET March 21, 2005

WASHINGTON - In what some House Democrats assailed as “a grotesque session of Congress” and “the manifestation of a constitutional crisis,” Republican leaders convened rare Sunday sessions of both the House and Senate to try to keep Terri Schiavo alive.

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A late winter weekend on Capitol Hill has rarely seen a spectacle like the one which unfolded over the weekend.

The drama climaxed early Monday morning with House passage of the bill intended to save Schiavo’s life by ordering a new review of her case by a federal judge. The bill covers only her case, not those of other similarly incapacitated people.
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making political hay on the backs of misery - biz as usual for DeLay and bushies

if the gentleman in texas - who was just moved to a facility that said they would take him (and presumably pay for it) - was moved because someone didn't want bush's hypocrisy on the issue to keep being played simultaneously with his "heroic" role in this case. :shrug:

As has been said, "I'll know it when I see it." Well, I see it, and I KNOW it!

:nuke: :grr:

Terry Shiavo is dead. Her cerebral cortex is gone and replaced by spinal fluid. The move to keep her dead body functioning reminds me of those stories you here about where someone cannot accept the death of a loved one. They then keep the decaying body propped up in a chair in the living room until the smell causes complaints or someone stumbles across it. I view this bizarre case as much the same way.

it is nothing short of SICK

Speaking just for himself, Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, President, The Interfaith Alliance said today in an email to me….

“A family’s grief over the loss of a loved one is being compounded by pontifical posturing among politicians and religious leaders who know too little about the situation even to comment on it much less to attempt to control it. A tragic situation is being made more tragic by the insensitive intrusion into it by Washington politicians seeking yet another venue for speaking to their partisan constituencies and for strengthening their political “base.” For Congress and the White House to jump into this tragic situation at the last minute, after years of court proceedings, and to take a position on the value of life so inconsistent with, if not contradictory to, many of their other decisions, represent unconscionable meddling in the private decision of an American family—a family who needs our thoughts and prayers, not our spirit of blatant judgment and our not-too-subtle politicization.”