Motherfucker, motherfucker, motherfucker, NO!

Hmmm... So, let me get this straight..... Schiavo dies....Religious right cries, senators deride the courts, say we need to reform the judiciaty, if not replace/remove it alltogether!Seems that the republicans, I mean Religious right (they are interchangeable now) really want to push this culture of life Idea, and want to get the public behind them on picking judges that are not "legal activists", and want to curtail abortion and stem cell research.Man, as much as I dislike republican policies, I really can feel sorry for them. I know, I know, this doesnt sound like me, but listen.Their party is being hijacked. It really is, by the invigorated religious right. Even strongholds of the repub party are going "Wait a sec..."Dammit, this country was FOUNDED on the ideas of checks and balances. The Judiciary is puting a CHECK to the legislative balance, and they are WHINING about it! They are saying taht they do not like these activist judges.Whatever that means.What is an activist judge? They are making it sound like it is a person taht is out of touch with reality, that recklessly legislates from the bench, that changes the interpretaion or ways of law. Congress says that they have no right to do that, being unelected officials.Problem is, they have been doing that for a LONG time, and nobody has been complaining. Until now.They are not getting thier way. And like a small child, they are whinnig about it. Whenever a judge decides against their legislation, or what they precieve to be right, they call them activist judges, and ask for their removal. So far, there has only been one judge removed from the bench for his views, but it was the guy down in the south that refused to remove the ten commandments because he believed God's law was higher than American law.Nooo..... when you got your bar..you were tested on...American law.....Leave the legal system how it is. I like it this way. It is keeping us sane, while our legislatures are driving us insane. C'mon people... writing special laws for a family, Flying out from vacationto sign this special law... aren't you worried that you are being a liitle too, how do we put this....obvious?!~~~~~~~Hypocrisy growsHere are some talking points on NPR now, this is from their website.On Sunday, a Los Angeles Times report detailed how House Majority Leader Tom DeLay let his own comatose father die in 1988. As the leader of the save Schiavo movement in Congress, DeLay embodies the GOP‘s rank hypocrisy on this issue. Democrats at Columbia University recently compiled a list of other examples of GOP hypocrisy in the Schiavo case. We‘ve included the most relevant and added a few of our own.** While Governor of Texas, George W. Bush signed a law allowing hospitals to remove a patient‘s life support regardless of the wishes of the family. Just a week ago Texas terminated the life of Sun Hudson, a five-month old baby suffering from a fatal genetic disorder.** The 2000 Republican platform read: "Medical decision-making should be in the hands of physicians and their patients." Four years later, the language remained nearly the same: "We must attack the root causes of high health care costs...by putting patients and doctors in charge of medical decisions."** Much of Terry Shiavo‘s care came courtesy of Medicaid, which the Bush Administration wants to cut by $60 billion. Just recently Republican Governor Bob Riley of Alabama tried to drop coverage for 13-year-old Lauren Rainey, a severely handicapped girl who requires a suction tube to breathe.** In his previous career as a heart surgeon, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist pulled the plug "on a regular basis," his office acknowledged last week. In his 1989 book Transplant, Frist advocated killing anencephalic babies, who are born in the same mental state that Terry Schiavo finds herself in today.** The tort-reform bill recently passed by the Senate would block cases like the malpractice suit that provided for Terri‘s care from reaching the courts in the first place.** So-called family values Republicans who constantly invoke the "sanctity of marriage" have viciously attacked Terry Schiavo‘s husband Michael, calling him a lying, lecherous wife-killer. It got so bad that TV host Joe Scarborough asked fellow conservative Pat Buchanan, "Are you comparing Michael Schiavo to a Nazi?"~~~~~~~~more to come later, I am off to a film job.