Damn the Dems, Too

Sen. Harry Reid (R-UT), Senate minority leader, led the Democrats into signing onto this preposterous plan - crafted for just ONE person - to let federal courts decide whether Terri Schiavo's feeding tube should be reinserted and virtually assuring that her tube will be reinserted again while they battle this out.

Kind of ironic since Bush's budget cuts nursing home beds for a large number of veterans at a time when we're getting a lot of men and women back here whose severe damage (often resulting in vegetative states) means they cannot or should not live ever again outside of an assisted living facility. What's good for one woman being used as a political football is TOO GOOD for our veterans.

So I tell you, folks. Don't let yourselves get into a situation where a politician or a right-to-my-demands-only lifer decides that it's just wonderful if you live another 40 or 50 years with the mental capacity of a three-month-old baby. Because they might decide to use you as a test case. And perhaps like Terri Schiavo, the government will spend millions of dollars dancing around on the head of a pin to make you live regardless of what you may want.

BUT UNLIKE TERRI SCHIAVO, you'll have to pay for it yourself. See, the good GOP and the right-to-my-demands-only lifers believe in LIFE but they don't want a cent of their tax money to go to paying for the care of a poor child or a sick adult. They'll make sure you have the baby or the quantity rather than quality of life, but they'll sell your organs before they give you a dime to help you support what they demand.

Yup... good Christians these people. Cut the vets, cut the programs for poor children and expectant mothers, turn sex education into "abstinence" only programs that end up promoting sexually transmitted diseases and overpopulation, wipe out public schools, and then tell you what to do with your own life.

May they all have long and lingering illnesses while they actually feel their brains turn to jelly and let's be sure our tax dollars don't fund them either.