Steve M of No More Mister Nice Blog does a much better job of summing up exactly why Democrat politicians have been so reluctant to take a stand in the Terri Schiavo case:
Why the hell does it seem that no one in the Democratic Party does what I do? Why didn’t anyone see this coming? Why were no Democrats prepared for this possibility?
Did any Democrat even know the facts of the case before this week? How many Democrats know, even now, that this is hardly an unprecedented case, that Terri Schiavo can’t possibly recover, that she won’t suffer agony as she dies? Republicans know all the Christian conservative Schiavo talking points. Has any Democrat in D.C. ever even looked at the exhaustive Terri Schiavo information page at Matt Conigliaro’s Abstract Appeal to learn the truth about the case?
When Terri Schiavo became Congress’s priority #1, Democrats — as usual –
buckled under pressure.
Credit where credit is due, however — the very few House Democrats who spoke out against the Frankenstein “compromise” bill during last night’s debate did a fantastic job of debunking some of the most flagrant lies being told by their Republican opponents, starting with my personal favourite, “She’s not brain dead — She smiles, and laughs!”
A round of applause, then, for Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D – Florida), Jerry Nadler (D – New York), Robert Wexler (D – Florida), Michael Capuano (D – Massachusetts)and David Wu (D – Oregon).
And, of course, a standing O for Barney Frank (D – Mass.) for leading the charge against both a bad law, and bad law.