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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-05 01:33 PM
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The Party of No Principles
<snip> While Governor of Texas, George W. Bush signed a law allowing hospitals to remove a patient‘s life support regardless of the wishes of the family. Just a week ago Texas terminated the life of Sun Hudson, a five-month old baby suffering from a fatal genetic disorder. <snip>

Much of Terry Shiavo‘s care came courtesy of Medicaid, which the Bush Administration wants to cut by $60 billion. Just recently Republican Governor Bob Riley of Alabama tried to drop coverage for 13-year-old Lauren Rainey, a severely handicapped girl who requires a suction tube to breathe.

In his previous career as a heart surgeon, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist pulled the plug "on a regular basis," his office acknowledged last week. In his 1989 book Transplant, Frist advocated killing anencephalic babies, who are born in the same mental state that Terry Schiavo finds herself in today.

The tort-reform bill recently passed by the Senate would block cases like the malpractice suit that provided for Terri‘s care from reaching the courts in the first place. <snip>

http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-551704.html
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-05 01:35 PM
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1. They pee on your shoes and tell you it is raining....
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-05 01:37 PM
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2. great analogy
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Mel Brennan Donating Member (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-05 08:06 PM
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6. Trickle...
trickle-down economics...
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-05 01:37 PM
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3. While this is completly unbeleivable...
I believe it. These are the same people who think "freedom is on the march" and democracy is "blooming like flowers" in the Middle East. :eyes:
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-05 01:45 PM
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4. Not that they were wrong on all those other cases
They are just wrong to be hypocrites now.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-02-05 01:48 PM
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5. Just wondering exactly what kind of site Obvious News is...
I found this scathing article about Dems and libs:
http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-551962.html]

I'd never head of Obvious News before this thread!
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