Culture of Life!

Tom DeLay thinks it's time for the legislature to exercise its authority over the judiciary to keep judges from thumbing their noses at Congress (otherwise known as not allowing themselves to be intimidated by radical conservative fanatic bullies - hell, even Cheney knows that). The good news is that Rick Santorum can name chapter and verse from the Constitution to support that the legislature has authority over the courts. Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas (the state wherein an infant was taken off life support against his parents' wishes the same week Congress was all atwitter about Schiavo. Ironically enough, the hospital had the power to overrule the parents' decision because of a law that then Governor Bush signed) said he wondered if frustration against perceived political decisions by judges "builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in violence, certainly without any justification."

In other good news about the sanctity of life, BBC is reporting on the current American scandal of pharmacists denying women birth control on "moral grounds." Chins up, though, we're still (for the moment) ahead of Iran, where a woman can get an abortion, but only in the first four months and cases where the mother's life is in danger or the child would be handicapped. (Handicapped children are a terrible emotional and financial drain, see.) Beyond that, she only needs permission from the father, three doctors, and a coroner.

In other happy news in that region, Don Rumsfeld has declared we don't have an exit strategy for Iraq, we have a "victory strategy." Despite the happy cheers from the troops whose morale he was there to boost (you know, the army we have, not the army we want) "victory strategy" is right up there with "mission accomplished," "bring 'em on," and "culture of life" as far as I'm concerned. The right wing sure does have its rhetoric down, though.

Oh, and the woman who was the National Security Advisor when the single most deadly foreign attack on American soil took place was promoted to Secretary of State. (Yeah, I know that's old news, but it still boggles my mind.)

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