"Drop Dead"

As usual, George Neumayr, perhaps the second most important writer in America, nails it on the Schiavo case. Three paragraphs:

The party of abortion and euthanasia says that the absence of meaningful mental activity justifies starving and dehydrating a human being to death -- a criterion for killing that should give Democrats not known for their lucidity considerable pause. Not much meaningful mental activity is coursing through a party that considers it prudent to weep for tortured terrorists at Abu Ghraib while approving the torture of starvation for the disabled back home.

Were Terri Schiavo a dog or a terrorist, she would have received a more vigorous defense from Democrats on Sunday night. Even vegetation in Florida's wetlands inspires more concern from Democrats than a human being dismissed as "being in a vegetative state."

While some Democrats had the good sense to stay home on Sunday night, Barney Frank and company couldn't resist appearing on C-SPAN. They recited the usual sick sophistries -- and without even bothering, as Steny Hoyer's pathetic faux-oracular final speech illustrated, to coordinate their sophistries. The Democrats had faked up an interest in federalism for almost three hours, then Hoyer stands up and exposes it all as a sham by saying, "If I thought that Florida courts had dealt with this in a careless or superficial way, I might think we should intervene." In other words: we agree with the judicial activists in Florida who overturned the people of Florida's law protecting Schiavo, so we won't meddle this time.