It’s over. The lame attempts by the President of the United States to circumvent the law failed. The courts have spoken. Terri Schiavo has spoken. Let her die. It’s the only decent thing left to do.
A federal appeals court panel refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube Friday, hours after the severely brain-damaged woman’s father said she was weakening and down “to her last hours.”
The Transportation Security Administration lied to the public, the press and Congress about its role in obtaining personal information about 12 million airline passengers to test a new computerized system that screens for terrorists, according to a government investigation.
President Bush’s approval rating slipped to a new low in the latest national survey with pollsters suggesting federal government intervention in the Terri Schiavo controversy may have been a factor along with growing concern about the economy.
Mark Twain said it best: “America is a nation without a distinct criminal class…with the possible exception of Congress.” Using Twain’s observation as a guideline we took a long, hard look at the 535 men and woman who make up the House and Senate of the United States in 1999 and found a collection of rogues, con artists, scofflaws and bad check artists. We found Twain was right. Congress comprises a distinct criminal class.
A federal judge on Friday refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, yet another setback for the parents of the brain-damaged woman in their battle against her husband to keep her alive.
Of the many bottom-feeding scum suckers who roam the halls of Congress, none is more despicable than House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. But DeLay, whose morality can’t even be measured with a micrometer, outdid himself this week when he – of all people – tried to drag both God and morals into the circus he and his political party have made of the Terri Schiavo tragedy. “One thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo to elevate the visibility of what’s going on in America,” the scandal-scarred Texas congressman told a meeting of the Family Research Council. “Americans would be so barbaric as to pull a feeding tube out of a person that is lucid and starve them to death for two weeks.” DeLay, of course, is pandering to the rabid religious right – the holy rollers who have infected our government like cancer. He is also trying to divert attention from his mounting legal and ethical problems and pending indictments back in Texas for fraud and money laundering.
President Bush and his allies would like the experts to find a crisis in Social Security to help sell the president’s private accounts and other Social Security reforms. This week the experts found a crisis, all right, but it wasn’t Social Security; it was Medicare.
As the political and opportunistic feeding frenzy continues unabated abound her, Terri Schiavo completed a week without food or water on Friday, sliding closer to death.
None of the 15 U.S. agencies that collected or assessed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is likely to be commended for doing an exemplary job, according to officials familiar with a report being prepared by a presidential commission.