Mainstream media waking up to the mullahs' fatwah on judges (and private citizens who care for their loved ones)...
Washington Post lead editorial:
The courts' findings were not ambiguous. Notwithstanding the blithe claims of politicians that they believe her to be conscious, a state appeals court in Florida wrote in 2001: "The evidence is overwhelming that Theresa is in a permanent or persistent vegetative state" and "at this point, much of her cerebral cortex is simply gone. . . ." In contrast to any number of ad hominem attacks on her husband, the court wrote that Michael Schiavo "has continued to care for her and to visit her all these years" and "has been a diligent watch guard of Theresa's care." And the appeals court agreed that the lower court had "clear and convincing evidence" supporting its determination that she would not have chosen to continue the life she now has.
....The U.S. legal system is not supposed to be one of legislative "do-overs" in which Congress, if it doesn't like the outcome in a high-profile case, changes the rules on behalf of politically favored parties.
NY Times' lead editorial:
The new law tramples on the principle that this is "a nation of laws, not of men," and it guts the power of the states. When the commotion over this one tragic woman is over, Congress and the president will have done real damage to the founders' careful plan for American democracy.
...in the Schiavo case, and in the battle to stop the Democratic filibusters of judicial nominations, President Bush and his Congressional allies have begun to enunciate a new principle: the rules of government are worth respecting only if they produce the result we want. It may be a formula for short-term political success, but it is no way to preserve and protect a great republic.
And what are they going to instruct the frenzied mob they've whipped up outside the hospice, now that the Federal judge has concluded the same as the state??
Brooks in the NY Times, on how the mullahs (Abramoff, Norquist, and Delay -- oh, my!) extort for gain:
Only a genius like Abramoff could make money lobbying against an Indian tribe's casino and then turn around and make money defending that tribe against himself. Only a giant like Abramoff would have the guts to use one tribe's casino money to finance a Focus on the Family crusade against gambling in order to shut down a rival tribe's casino.
