Clams Canino wrote:

"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Clams Canino" wrote in message
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I'll bet Bush wished that Congress had stayed totally away from Schiavo.
Passing that bill merely cornered him, he could not refuse to sign it

for

fear of ****ing off the Christian Right. Had he refused, he might have
taken
a bigger approval hit the other way. His last comments indicates he just
wants this to go away.


He's not running for anything. Why should he care about how the Schiavo
case affects his poll ratings? The man is standing on principle, as is

his

brother (who *may* be running for something). Republicans (at the state

and

the federal level) who voted against any life-sustenance bill have sold

out

to insurance companies and hospital administrators.


I dissagee..... when Bush is standing on principle, he's adament and "on
about it". Best we got out of him here was "If we're going to err, we
should err on the side of life." That's hardly an "activist" position on the
matter. And just today he was quick to come out with a set of comments that
more or less equels "well that's that then" today when the Supreme Court
shot it down.

I'll bet like a lot of people, Bush is unsure exactly how to feel about
this, except that it sucks all around. While I personally feel that she's a
breathing cadaver, I don't (too much) care if they leave her hooked up as a
living science project for the next 10 years either. I don't think he has a
real adament horse in this fight, anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that she has
none at all. He just can't go against the parties general "right to life"
dogma when it runs up and bites him in the ass (like this case).

There's a difference between the Christian Right - and the Radical Christian
Right. And this case kinda shows who's vocalizing where. Bush has a couple
agendas (like the SS reform bill) that's he wants to move on - Terry Schiavo
is a side show he does not need when he has chosen his battles to fight. He
understood that his election bought him some "political capitol" to spend.
And he seems to know it's limits. I don't think he wants to squander it on
high profile circus issues like this.

-W

Sure does take the heat off DeLay for a few days though.