Saturday, March 19, 2005

 

Our Braindead Congress

"We should investigate every avenue before we take the life of a living human being," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "That's the very least we can do for her."

Coming from a former exterminator, that's rich. These folks could give two shits about your life -- ask yourself, how many Terri Schiavos are they creating, every day, in Iraq and Afghanistan?


Why can't the Congress simply let Terri Schiavo "go to God" in much the same way people in her physical state have inevitably done (that is, up until the last 20 years or so of medical technology)?

Terri Schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state for *15 years.* Because her Catholic parents say so, they've artifically kept her alive (at whose expense, it's never made clear). Now the Congress -- which seems to have entirely abdicated its presidential oversight, war-declaring, and fiscal responsibilities -- wants to play National Nanny, and wetnurse every mirror-fogging Brainstem Wonder they can find.

What's the Greek word for "governed by fuckwits?"

posted by Michael 10:34 PM