And now, the award for Pure Republican Chutzpah Without A Trace Of Irony goes to former Senate Majority Leader (and cat killer) Bill Frist.
Yep, the heart surgeon who diagnosed Terri Schiavo as non-vegetative — not from directly examining her, mind you, but from viewing a couple of hours of edited videotape — is now writing in The Tennessean about end-of-life care. And specifically saying that the nation should have a meaningful conversation about it.
Incredible! We cats thought we couldn't be surprised by anything else the other side of the aisle dishes out, but this one really takes the cake.
Let's take a moment to wander down Memory Lane, shall we? And recall how totally nutzoid the Republican Congress went over Michael and Terri Schiavo's private, personal wishes, and passed a special law to re-insert Ms. Schiavo's feeding tube? The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived even made a special trip back to DC from Texas to sign the freaking thing. (And should Jeb! Bush decide to run for President in 2016, this story will be fertile ground for opposition researchers.)
Bill Frist had no control over House maniacs like Tom DeLay, but he could have shut all that Schiavo nonsense down in the Senate. Instead, his reckless diagnosis poured gasoline on the fire. And set the stage for much of the GOP idiocy over the Affordable Care Act. (Yes, Sarah Palin, we're talking about you.)
Yet, completely un-self-consciously — and without an apology for the mayhem he helped cause — Frist says in his recent op-ed, "There are no death panels. End of life is not a political issue but a personal one."
We have no idea why Frist thinks he can get away with such bald hypocrisy. Unless he's counting on reporters not to ask him about it. Which, considering the sad state of journalism these days, is quite possible. We cats HISS.
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