To a large degree, I’ve ignored the news the last few days. But I did catch pieces of it. And what I’ve seen is simply amazing. Just when you think GOPUSA can’t sink any lower, it does. Who would have imagined that we’d see emergency sessions of Congress and a president rearranging his travel schedule just to continue feeding a woman who’s been virtually brain dead for 15 years?
As this Digby post highlights, most of these “life saving” lawmakers really aren’t interested in your run-of-the-mill vegetative state victims. But when the religious right comes calling with a poster child to fan the flames of the latest culture war we’re witnessing the lengths to which they go to appease. What was all that we heard about limiting the reach of the federal government?
If the Democrats really wanted to fight fire with fire (crass politics), they’d turn around this wedge and shove it right back in between the business and religious right wings of the GOP. I’m sure there are plenty of money folks who aren’t too keen about the prospect of indefinite medical care and litigation for patients in a persistent vegetative state.
She isn’t brain dead. She’s in a persistent vegetative state, and has shown signs of emotion and recognition, and has spoken words a number of times over the years.
Also, she’s now been in that state for 15 years, but her husband’s been trying to have her killed for almost a decade now.