Then again, could interpret: red meat thrown to religious backers, mission accomplished, go home. Either way, opportunism rules the day.
Suddenly, even as legislative action becomes the sole hope of the Schindler family in the Terri Schiavo case, their biggest supporter, Rep. Tom DeLay, seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Sure, it's Congress' Easter Recess, but that was true last week as well when DeLay and Bill Frist called Congress back into "emergency session" to prevent what DeLay called "murder" and "medical terrorism." Now that the whole thing hasn't worked out too well from anybody's point of view, DeLay seems to have decided it's no emergency at all.
Offering truth beyond the mere black and white.
"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." -- Antonio Gramsci
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell
Saturday, March 26, 2005
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