Death Party Discovers Limited Government

I admit it. I'm captivated by the case of Terri Schiavo in Florida. The case pits her husband, who is trying to kill her, against her family, who wants to care for her.

I woke back up at midnight last night to watch Congress go into special weekend session to pass a bill, signed in the early morning hours by President Bush, to allow her case to be heard by a Federal Court in the latest bid to keep her alive.

All of the Democrats who spoke up cemented their status as the Death Party. The champions of the "Right to Die". Or more accurately, the right for someone else to die if they're inconvenient to me. From abortion to euthansia the Death Party is consistent. The right to privacy, they insist, includes the right to kill those who would be better off dead in their judgement. Harsh, but true.

Now they won't come out and say it that bluntly. Oh no. They are the master of euphemism, having honed their word-craft in the thirty years of the abortion debate - where "product of conception" equals an unborn baby and "surgical termination" equals death by abortion.

No, to a man / woman the Democrats caged their arguments to let Terri die as follows:

1. Government should not insert itself into family life.
2. The Federal government shouldn't address this, states should.
3. The Congress should be paying attention to more important things like health care or the price of gas.

Even Michael Shiavo, Terri's husband, parroted these talking points after he angrily told everyone to butt out because his "wife had been adjudicated". Who talks that way about their wife? Scott Peterson, that's who. I've come to the conclusion that Michael Schiavo is Scott Peterson in slow motion. He's trying to kill his wife so that he can go live his other life with his baby-mama. Pathetic.

As to the Democrats suddenly discovering limited government in this case, it's laughable.

These are the same Democrats who stay awake at night figuring out how to extend government into every aspect of your life. Cradle to grave. Democrats champion every conceiveable government entitlement to intrude into your family.

These are the same Democrats, for example, who champion the right of government paid school nurses to drive your minor child across state lines to have an abortion without the parent's knowledge. Suddenly they've decided that government shouldn't intrude into families.

It's laughable - only it's not. It's tragic.

As to the argument about whether or not the Federal Government should be involved:

The fundamental right that the Federal Government should protect above all others for its citizens is the right to life.

As to whether or not Congress is to busy to get involved and should be paying attention to other things, a crass and heartless argument if I've ever heard one:

If the government cannot protect you from being starved to death, the price of gasoline will be a moot point to you.