BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - ( OT ) The Politicization of Terri Schiavo

On 21 Mar 2005 18:13:59 -0800, wrote:

So riddle me this:

Democratic administration. Elio Gonzales is living with some relatives
in FLA. Father is demanding return of Elio to his home in Cuba.
Democratic AG Janet Reno steps in and says the federal government has
the power to intervene in this family issue between the Dad and the FLA
relatives.......and the conservatives are so po'd they can't see
straight. The right wing says this is a family matter, should be
covered by state law, and the FEDGOV has no business interfering.

Republican administration. Terri Sciavo's husband and *nineteen* judges
in FLA state courts have said her brain dead body should no longer be
kept alive with a feeding tube. Congress
passes an emergency bill overriding the husband and the nineteen
decisions made by FLA state judges, and Bush flies back from Texas, in
his pajamas at 1:00 AM, to sign it.

What happened to being PO'd at the Federal government for intervening
in a family matter and the insistence that this should be decided at
the state level, not federal? Why is BIGGUMINT
suddenly better than carefully considered local decisions?

Could it be that there was political hay to be made by opposing the
FEDGOV in the Gonzales case, but that political haymaking is more
lucrative on the other side of the issue in the Sciavo situation?

Values should be consistent, not merely expedient.

Anything that is bad for the other side is good. Anything good (or potentially
good) for the other side is bad.

Simple values.

It's the same rationale used for the posting of soldiers getting killed in Iraq.
--
John H

"All decisions are the result of binary thinking."