A Modest List of Most Major Examples of GOP Hypocrisy

Highlighted by the Schiavo case.

I’d make a list of the lies that have been employed as well, but then this would quite literally never get finished.

1. In 1999, as Governor of Texas, George Bush signed the Texas Futile Care Law, which allows hospitals to pull the plug on patients regardless of the wishes of the family. In just the past week, this law was used to take the six-month old Sun Hudson off life support; one has to wonder where the ‘pro-life’ Republicans were at the time. (Jon Stewart and myself feel the same way about this, as you can see starting at the 3:10 point.)

2. I present to you an excerpt from the 2000 Republican platform:

Medical decision-making should be in the hands of physicians and their patients.

and this nearly identical line from the 2004 Republican platform:

We must attack the root causes of high health care costs by… putting patients and doctors in charge of medical decisions.

Hmmmmm…

3. I could’ve sworn that Republicans spent the entirety of the last election cycle blathering about the sanctity of marriage - but now suddenly refuse to believe in the generally-accepted principle of deferring to the spouse in substituted-judgement cases. Funny, that.

4. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist regularly pulled the plug in his pre-political career as a surgeon. (In Frist’s defense, he’s said he only approves going ahead with it when sure the patient is brain-dead, and it’s his professional opinion that Schiavo isn’t brain-dead - after all, he saw a videotape.)

http://www.columbiadems.org/blog/?p=59

Not only is Frist hypicrical because he has seen cases where it is completely appropriate to end life-prolonging measures...but Tom DeLay and his family did it for his father...and Bob Schindler did it for his own mother.

It happens all the time.

"You may not agree with me on everything, but at least you know where I stand." Could this be the President who consistantly attacked his opponent as being a flip-flopper? Gee, I'd probably disagree with George Bush on this one but I haven't a fucking clue where he stands.