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Saturday, March 26, 2005

More evil from DeLay

Gee, who would've guessed that Tom DeLay, public advocate number one for Mrs. Schiavo's "right to life" has some personal experience with this issue. And came down on the other side. So when he claims that Schiavo was a "gift from God to the Republican party," you can be pretty sure he isn't talking about morals. From the LA Times:

"More than 16 years ago, far from the political passions that have defined the Schiavo controversy, the DeLay family endured its own wrenching end-of-life crisis. The man in a coma, kept alive by intravenous lines and a ventilator, was DeLay's father, Charles Ray DeLay. . .

. . .And [DeLay] is among the strongest advocates of keeping the woman, who doctors say has been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, connected to her feeding tube. DeLay has denounced Schiavo's husband, as well as judges, for committing what he calls "an act of barbarism" in removing the tube.

In 1988, however, there was no such fiery rhetoric as the congressman quietly joined the sad family consensus to let his father die."