Friday, March 18, 2005
Outrage exhaustion
Since the AllSpinZone is attending to the far more important task of pointing out how Bushco has poured federal dollars into lionizing Our Dear Leader and propagandizing his Social Security non-plan I am left with the comparatively miniscule task of commenting on Tom DeLay's decision to subpoena Terry Schiavo, a woman in a tragically and terminally vegetative state, in an attempt to interfere with a lawful order to disconnect her feeding tube.
Constitutional scholars will note that this subpoena amounts to a bill of attainder (a law retroactively applied to a single person), and is therefore a power grab of almost unthinkable arrogance by the Legislative Branch against the Judicial.
But I think Schiavo's husband would do well to bow to the subpoena and send her to Congress, where it is likely that she would pass on. Tom DeLay could then take personal responsibility for having caused her death.
At the very least, she would spend her last hours with people afflicted with a condition similar to hers.
I grieve with her husband and parents that we have sunk so low that a politicians could use an artificially-sustained corpse as a pawn in a maudlin political display.
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