Scheer is right on target (as always) about Shiavo [View All]

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Robert Scheer hits another one "out of the park". Fantastic columnist.

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Life, death and cynical grandstanding

Robert Scheer - Creators Syndicate

03.22.05 - I cannot remember a time when Congress and the president have acted with more egregious political opportunism and shameless trafficking in human misery than last weekend, leaping into the 15-year-long Terri Schiavo saga at the last possible moment as grandstanding defenders of the defenseless.

Although Schiavo's relatives on both sides of the issue are assuredly acting in good faith, national politicians certainly are not.

That was clear even before ABC News revealed the contents of a memo circulating among Senate Republicans that trilled over how exploiting this complex case in the most simplistic way would "excite" the GOP base and would be "a great political issue."

Otherwise, they would have taken up this tortuous issue in earnest long ago. Better yet, they should have trusted the Florida state legal system and doctors who have examined Schiavo's case over and over again.

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