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2 November 2005 - 07:31 UTCBefore you start making accusations of “political grandstanding” because of the declaration of war by Senator Harry Reid, you should remember two words:
Terry Schiavo
A ‘pacifist male’ is a contradiction in terms. Most self-described ‘pacifists’ are not pacific; they simply assume false colors. When the wind changes, they hoist the Jolly Roger.
—Lazarus Long
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How frightfully sad that Terry Schiavo should be recalled as merely “two words.”
And yet those of us “on the right” are referred to as cold and heartless.
By Bat One on 11.02.05 12:40
Breakfast: 11/2/2005
Try one of these specials with your breakfast:
21st Century Paladin is taking names.
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MacStansbury (MY VRWC version) isn’t shedding tears …
By basil's blog on 11.02.05 12:45
She was turned into a symbol by the very political grandstanding from the right-wing that I am decrying.
Once that happened, is it the responsibility of other political viewpoints to clean up the mess created by the right-wing?
Who is more heartless, the ones who used her to push their agenda, or the ones reminding those who used her of their sins?
By Jack on 11.02.05 13:06
Hypocrisy surprises you? When Roberts was nominated, we were deluged with ads demanding a “fair up or down vote.” Before the next nominee was named, there were ads urging a “fair up or down vote.” After Miers was nominated, the ads disappeared. This morning, there they went again demanding a “fair up or down vote”. As we say out here, the hypocrisy would gag a goat.
By jae grenier on 11.02.05 15:26
Jack,
Your presumption that those on the right regard Terri Schiavo as a symbol, rather than a person, is offensive, arrogant, and in the end, unworthy of you. There is certainly no need to try and rationalize the Democrat’s partisan temper tantrum by insulting those with whose point of view you disagree by denigrating their motives. After all, Terri Schiavo was a person… a human being, not a snail darter or a spotted owl.
As for the Reid/Durbin “grandstanding� itself, I loved it. Once more the left has demonstrated their ideological bankruptcy. No policy pronouncements. No legislative initiatives, no alternative solutions to common problems facing the country. No honest attempts to find common ground or compromise with those on/in the Right. Is it any wonder that the number of nationally elected Democrats keeps diminishing year after year? Continued vacuous behavior on the left and another couple of election cycles, and talk of snail darters and spotted owls won’t seem nearly so impertinent.
By Bat One on 11.02.05 15:39
Bat One,
And your presumption that the Reid/Durbin ploy demonstrates ideological bankruptcy is NOT arrogant? For whole heckuva lot of people in this country who see a frightening lack of accountability by this administration and Republican Congress, this was long overdue, even if it was a stunt. Terri Schiavo was one person, the dead from this war are many thousand.
By Walker Willingham on 11.03.05 00:54