{"id":1553,"date":"2005-03-21T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/federalizing_family_cases\/"},"modified":"2005-03-21T11:52:53","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T16:52:53","slug":"federalizing_family_cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/federalizing_family_cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Federalizing Family Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To a large degree, I&#8217;ve ignored the news the last few days.  But I did catch pieces of it.  And what I&#8217;ve seen is simply amazing.  Just when you think GOPUSA can&#8217;t sink any lower, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2005_03_13.php#005195\">it does<\/a>.  Who would have imagined that we&#8217;d see emergency sessions of Congress and a president rearranging his travel schedule just to continue feeding a woman who&#8217;s been virtually brain dead for 15 years?<br \/>\nAs this <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2005_03_20_digbysblog_archive.html#111134934659869241\">Digby post<\/a> highlights, most of these &#8220;life saving&#8221; lawmakers really aren&#8217;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&#8217;re witnessing the lengths to which they go to appease.  What was all that we heard about limiting the reach of the federal government?<br \/>\nIf the Democrats really wanted to fight fire with fire (crass politics), they&#8217;d turn around this wedge and shove it right back in between the business and religious right wings of the GOP.  I&#8217;m sure there are plenty of money folks who aren&#8217;t too keen about the prospect of indefinite medical care and litigation for patients in a persistent vegetative state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/federalizing_family_cases\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Federalizing Family Cases\"><p>To a large degree, I&#8217;ve ignored the news the last few days. But I did catch pieces of it. And what I&#8217;ve seen is simply amazing. Just when you think GOPUSA can&#8217;t sink any lower, it does. Who would have imagined that we&#8217;d see emergency sessions of Congress and a president rearranging his travel schedule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}