And more....

More on the same. I can't help it. This whole article is makes my head spin...

From Washington Post:
Calling the bill a "Palm Sunday Compromise" that will keep Terri Schiavo, 41, alive, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) said, "It won't take a miracle to help Terri Schiavo. It will only take the medical care and therapy that all patients deserve." In a rare gesture, Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) presided over the three-hour debate, and he quoted Pope John Paul II on the subject of life-sustaining treatments.

Now Republicans discover the Pope. They weren't quoting him when he said the the Iraq War was not a just war, nor when he said that "Washington and its allies will be judged by God."

In his Senate speech yesterday, Frist denounced an unsigned memo circulated to Republican lawmakers over the weekend calling the Schiavo case "a great political issue." Frist said he had not seen the memo, adding: "I condemn the content of the memo and reaffirm that the interest in this case by myself, and the many members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle, is to assure that Mrs. Schiavo has another chance at life."

You really think Frist didn't see the Republican policy memo? Is he, like, not on the distribution list?

The Senate, operating under unanimous-consent rules, passed the legislation yesterday afternoon with no debate and with only three members present.

Three lucky senators, not even up past their bedtimes. Yeah, that shows a lot of "interest in the case" by "the many members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle".

Voting 203 to 58 at 12:42 a.m., the House joined the Senate in approving the measure and rushing it to Bush. He signed the bill into law at 1:11 a.m., saying, "I will continue to stand on the side of those defending life for all Americans, including those with disabilities."

A bold stand: better than the alternative at least. Though if you aren't American, the value of your life goes way way down...

And one final dig:

Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said it is foolish to think the bill will not become a legal precedent. "Every aggrieved party in any similar litigation now will go to Congress, come to Congress and ask us to make a series of decisions," he said. "This is a terribly difficult decision which we are, institutionally, totally incompetent to make."

Find me one time where being incompetent has stopped Congress....