Why I Just Can’t Bring Myself to Care…

…about Terry Schiavo:

1. Nobody will remember any of this in 18 months. Those who do were going to vote Republican anyway.
2. “Saving” Terry Schiavo is probably the least evil thing that the Republicans will do this week.
3. I really don’t see this case leading to a pattern of abuses of power, regardless of whether the bill is constitutional or no. Let the Republicans win, and the worst thing that will happen is that Mrs. Schiavo will live as a vegetable for another thirty years, now and again “smiling” at her parents and at Tom Delay.

Yeah, the grandstanding bothers me, and to refer to the media as “whores” really misses the fact that they’re giving it away for free. But, we knew that the Republican party didn’t stand for anything other than deep pockets and moral outrage before this. I’m unexcited.