sometimes the rage works
wonderful keith olbermann, and of course jon stewart, hit all the angles on the skee-ah-vo case vis-a-vis the texas law etc. and jon even had a moment, after explaining what we blogged yesterday, where he let the rage overtake him too. that's right, me & jon are likethis. chiniqua stewart. hmmmm....
furthermore, it seems that this is not playing quite the way the kitty killer etc. thought it would - people are shockingly against them. even evangelical christians think they are wrong. the post (new york not washington) even thought they were wrong. what a crazy world. it seems to me that this is because in fact this is not a political issue at all - it is a fairly clear-cut legal one, and there is nothing democrat or republican about it. there are those who are trying to make it into one, but whether or not the case has merits and she is in whatever medical condition is not actually related to politics. the only part of it that is related to politics is the idea that the federal guvmint should not just stroll on in and make a federal case (literally!) out of your private life. which, correct me if i'm crazy, was i thought what the whole republican thing was about. you know, small guvmint and state's rights and stuff.
also, a glorious number of people have pointed out that erring on the side of life is not exactly what bush is known for - just ask the families of, you know, the gazillion prisoners he put to death in texas. including the ones that had very real, very serious legal issues. and it's worth pointing out that the vatican newspaper, which wrote that they support keeping terri alive, mentions its disapproval of the death penalty in the next sentance. ``After all, Terri's destiny appears not unlike that of many men and women who in the United States get capital punishment for their crimes,'' the paper said. so that's not gonna work too well for chimpy.
so your final reading is this piece, also incandescent with rage. just like we should all be.
furthermore, it seems that this is not playing quite the way the kitty killer etc. thought it would - people are shockingly against them. even evangelical christians think they are wrong. the post (new york not washington) even thought they were wrong. what a crazy world. it seems to me that this is because in fact this is not a political issue at all - it is a fairly clear-cut legal one, and there is nothing democrat or republican about it. there are those who are trying to make it into one, but whether or not the case has merits and she is in whatever medical condition is not actually related to politics. the only part of it that is related to politics is the idea that the federal guvmint should not just stroll on in and make a federal case (literally!) out of your private life. which, correct me if i'm crazy, was i thought what the whole republican thing was about. you know, small guvmint and state's rights and stuff.
also, a glorious number of people have pointed out that erring on the side of life is not exactly what bush is known for - just ask the families of, you know, the gazillion prisoners he put to death in texas. including the ones that had very real, very serious legal issues. and it's worth pointing out that the vatican newspaper, which wrote that they support keeping terri alive, mentions its disapproval of the death penalty in the next sentance. ``After all, Terri's destiny appears not unlike that of many men and women who in the United States get capital punishment for their crimes,'' the paper said. so that's not gonna work too well for chimpy.
so your final reading is this piece, also incandescent with rage. just like we should all be.
posted by chiniqua at 3:45 PM
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