After reading Jeckles, My Fearless Leader's take on this subject, I had to write on the subject again. Jeckles speculates that the wingers have hijacked Terri Schiavo's case to get at reversing Roe v Wade. At one time I would have scoffed at that notion. I'm not scoffing. He's got a point.
What is so frustrating and infuriating about this subject is that opposing sides are so repugnant once they kick it into high. And they've been running in high for more than a week now.
On the one hand, it's not enough for the wingers to insist that life is precious and Terri Schiavo should live no matter what. They have to throw in parallels between the crucifixion of Jesus and make statements about Schiavo taking on the appearance of an Auschwitz victim. You've gotta be some kind of desperate for a point marker to make that kind of argument.
Then there's the fibbies. I was surprised at first to find myself agreeing with Barney Frank and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. But then along came the self appointed spokesperson for the Liberals on Talk Radio, and the liberal argument went right into appalling.
Al Franken was with Joe Scarborough when he not only suggested that wingers want to kill innocent people, but he also launched into an attack on George Bush for wanting to kill black babies. As a matter of fact, Al Franken got specific -- or as specific as Franken ever gets because he has very little grasp of any facts; he just makes it up as he goes along, but he begins with a germ of truth, so he thinks that's good enough. He said that because George W Bush signed the Futility Bill into law in Tesas in 1999, this means George Bush deliberately kills black babies.
Now it just so happens that I know about this case, and I posted an entry about it HERE. Al Franken is a despicable liar for many reasons, but in this case he took the case of a 6 month old baby with a list of incurable medical problems, and he twisted it into a) a racial issue, which it was not, and b) another indictment of George Bush because Franken hates Bush. And Franken spews this garbage on public radio waves on a daily basis. Al Franken makes me want to wash.All of this surrounds Terri Schiavo's death, and there's nothing much we can do about it except wash. I'm very very clean these days.
