To: Alighieri who wrote (238010 ) 6/19/2005 8:00:03 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to This editorial says it so well: Schiavo case showed pols' true colors The report was equally damaging -- or should be -- to the scoundrels who tried to make political hay of the unfortunate woman's condition: both Bushes -- Jeb and Dubya -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and the odious Tom DeLay. It apparently made no impression on Mrs. Schiavo's parents, who, according to news reports, persist in believing that she could see and that kept alive she would have responded to therapeutic treatment. We do have a right, however, to expect more of people who purport to be our leaders. The self-serving behavior of the Bushes, Frist and DeLay was cynical and exploitive and, sad to say, predictable, at least in the case of the two Bushes, both of whom had proved long since that they are beyond shaming, and DeLay, who is even more shameless and saw the Schiavo case as a made-to-order distraction from the vegetative state of his own ethics. Frist's behavior, offering a medical diagnosis after watching a videotape about a condition that was outside his own realm of expertise, was surprising at first, until it was revealed that he has presidential ambitions and his intervention was a sop to the religious right, which had rallied 'round the Schindlers' efforts to keep their daughter on life support. A spokesman for Frist told reporters that the good doctor had nothing to retract because he hadn't actually made a formal diagnosis. Maybe so, but he did, on March 17, on the floor of the Senate, claim that Mrs. Schiavo was responsive, which the autopsy established she most certainly was not. DeLay was unavailable, but sent out a spokesman who revealed that The Hammer's thoughts and prayers were with the Schindlers. Dubya, as usual, lay low. But he sent The Gerbil out to proclaim that, "The president believes we should stand on the side of defending and protecting life." Words to live by from someone who doesn't. pressconnects.com
