Fallout

OK so the conventional wisdom is that roughly 80% of the public think that the government should not have gotten involved in the Terry Schiavo case. People are very very emotionally involved in this case on both sides and the conservatives are getting downright shrill.

The religious right while initially hailing government intervention is rapidly changing course and when Terry dies there is speculation that this is gonna backlash on Bush and his cronies for supposedly not doing enough. I guess short of kidnapping her and totally ignoring the rule of law there really was nothing else these fanatics would accept as "doing enough"

Well now those sweet lovable right to lifers and all their ilk are sending dire warnings to Bush & Co.

Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, who is acting as a spokesman for Schiavo's parents, warned Republican lawmakers Thursday there would be "hell to pay," if she dies and said, "There will be people that might just lose their jobs when this is over."

It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of folks.

SCHNEIDER: That's right. What the polls show is people want politics out of it. They consider this a private family matter, and anyone who appears to make this political is being held to account. The public is very angry at them.

That includes President Bush. We've seen his ratings decline, perhaps because of his involvement in this case. It includes Congress. It includes the governor of Florida. The conservatives say the courts have been political in this and that's why they're attacking them. They say this is a case of judicial activism where the judges are interfering. Everybody in this case seems to have some kind of political agenda and it's hurting them all.

I love how people keep tagging the judicial activism label to every court decision they happen to disagree with. Don't people understand that, that's what courts are for? To make decisions based on the facts and that for every issue there is going to be a losing side that disagrees with the decision? Just because you disagree doesn't mean you can abandon the rule of law altogether. Anyway that issue aside I was initially pissed that Democrats didn't come out more forcefully on this but perhaps it is better that they didn't since people seem to have pretty much taken leave of their senses.

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[UPDATE] I saw Randall Terry on the talk shows last night clarifying his position. Whereas I assumed he was referring to all Republican who failed to saved Terry irregardless of their trying to sidestep the constitution, he was actually referring to the 8 or 9 Republicans who voted with the Democrats in the Florida state legislature to defeat yet another state legislation designed specifically to twart Terry's desire to not live like she is currently doing. So in hindsight my snarky "It couldn't happen to a nicer group of folks" comment was ill advised. The people the wingers want to bring down are actually the people who managed to maintain their sanity in this circus and they deserve our praise and support not derision.