Prediction.
No, not about the NCAA basketball tournament. This will be a rant about the Terri Schiavo case. There is nothing stranger than life, and this case is full of ironies that I feel like Michael from the "Godfather," "every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in."1. Congress could pass a law on a person that had been in a vegetated state for more than a decade over a weekend, but can't decide on a balance budget that affects 300 million people.
2. George Bush's symbolic gesture of flying in to save the woman's life was widely praised. I guess he wasn't too enthralled in a captivating book like "my pet goat".
3. Bush is trying to save her life so the government will continue to pay for her care through Medicaid. Bush wanted to cut Medicaid in the most recent budget proposal.
4. Bush is trying to save Schiavo's life while he had signed the Texas Futile Care Law that allow hospitals to terminate life support for patients, who are terminally ill, even when opposed by family wishes.
5. The Florida judge, who allowed the removal of the feeding tube, is a conservative Republican. The federal judge to hear the Schiavo case will be Judge James Whittemore, a Clinton appointee.
My prediction, good luck Republicans, after Whittemore's rejection of the stay, you will have to move it up to the Supreme court. What will be after that?
posted by hedgehog @ 1:16 PM
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