And to the Supreme Court Again

[Ed note: Update. The Miami Herald offers a fascinating portrait of Michael Schiavo's lawyer who, although probably better qualified to speak of God or the Bible than Randall Terry and most of the ministers involved in the case (notice they're exclusively male?), believes that people have a right to make choices in end-of-life matters. And he knows the hospice program.

Will this be their fourth or fifth denial on Schiavo? Of course, they could go against all legal precedent because Noni Scalia decides public approval will ride him triumphantly into the chief justice's spot.

Media says this has to be the last appeal. But they've said that before. Bush/Congress gave them another chance in federal court. This is chance 6 or 7 just on this whirl (Terri's been without a tube as long as six days before they found intervenors before? Can't recall.

For all Larry Klayman's posturing that everyone in the Florida legislature was going to move heaven and earth to do "God's work" to make Terri live so "she can help the cause", they ended business today without bringing the matter up.

As much as I think the Schindlers and their handlers are pursuing this well past the point of cruelty, absurdity and questionable gain, notice that the legislators who were all but wooing them and trying to demand a session of Congress be convened right in her hospice room (man, these bitches are crazy) have now gone off into the woodwork again. They used the Schiavo case for what they needed and now, with public opinion against them, we've seen how loyal they are. If public opinion changed overnight, they'd make Terri an honorary member of Congress (at least as capable of voting as Strom Thurmond that last decade or two). The closest we've heard to support in a week now is Tom DeLay calling himself as much of a victim of mean people as Terri.

Tom's quite a comedian.