Tom Delay, Hypocrite in the Schiavo Case

Of course, and also to take focus off his ethics issues.

Was that article in the Opinions section? If it wasn't, it should have been. Quite biased, IMO. They may as well have made the headline exactly what Barbara's thread topic was.

That said...OK, I can see the differences in the cases from his (general "his") perspective. A respirator and dialysis seems to be more extreme measures to sustaining life than food and water even by artificial means.

But I also have to agree that there is a lot of hypocracy about this entire case in politics. GOP wanting to basically destroy the spouse as the guardian in this case because they don't like what he says, and wanting to take it to federal judges...and beyond all of THAT, basically asking for those judges to rule again the law and be "activist judges" to get what they want. On the other hand, the Dems want to keep it away from the judges that they have relied on, per se, to change the marriage laws in various states. (You all know I'm for equality of marriage rights by law to everyone, straight or gay doesn't matter.) And all of this basically because of their respective positions on something that has nothing at all to do with Terri - abortion. Which has never made sense to me in the first place! GOP are usually for individual rights....except for that one instance. But the Dems usually want to have the government involved in people's lives...except for that, then they should be able to choose.

I don't get it. I don't get it at all. (Yes, I know it's all about the Religious Right and all that rot, but it isn't logical for either side!!)

You know, I was actually informed about that headline yesterday, before it came out. (ah the minor benefit of working for the news). Great guy, ain't he? (I hope you caught the sarcasm)

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...0.html?cnn=yes

According to him (Tom Delay) he is trying to draw parallels between Schiavo's situation and his own as he faces a barrage of ethics allegations, and he implicitly asked the conservatives to come to his defense as they have Schiavo's.

Whether would he get support from his party is another matter given that Bush's approval ratings has fallen as result of this intervention.

This is a hot potato, potentially burning all who touches it.

Well this has backfired on the republicans. They took one look at the polls and figured that out. Jeb is now bowing out. and yeah what happened to the Einsenhower republican ideal of less government? These guys are all over the place.

They pretty much have to bow out regardless of public opinion. Legally they can't do anything more and they know that, even if the parents can't figure that out.

Caught it and loved it!!!

The decision he made about his father in 1988 was unique and separate from the Terri Schiavo case, but he didn't appear to argue his case from that perspective. What is more disturbing about this story was the fact that his family successfully sued for his father's pain and suffering, then 3 years later he tried to push thru a law to prevent exactly what he collected money for. That shows the long term hypocrisy in his life.

*sigh*

See if they would have never gotten involved, Delay wouldn't of had that personal family event in the media.

Interesting.
DeLay is such scum.
Wait....
POLITICIANS in general are such scum....