Republican Ghouls

The whole Terry Shiavo thing makes me sick. Let the poor woman die, already. The whole prolonged family court fight was bad enough, but now our fearless Republican government has to call special sessions, to pass personal legislation just for this case? God, it's disgusting. And ol' W takes the cake, saying in his statement:

In cases like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws, and our courts should have a presumption in favor of life.

Yeah, that's great, George. Tell it to the 152 people executed while you were Governor of Texas.

Rahul Mahajan at Empire Notes sums it all up perfectly.

Terry Schiavo apparently still has humanity even without meaningful brain activity, but the 300,000 residents of Fallujah have none to these adherents of the culture of life.

...This right wing apparently has a belief in preserving life only where that life is absolutely meaningless. It’s not a culture of life; it’s a culture of living death.