The Fight For States Rights And The Sanctity of Marriage

Well it’s been awhile since I’ve written – I’ve been busy writing a book, selling a business…you know the drill – but this last weekend really has me dizzy. Suddenly Republicans are against states rights and for government paid health care. Liberals have come out swinging for states rights and the sanctity of marriage. President Bush makes a special trip to Washington from his ranch in Texas to sign a bill written to save Terri Shiavo’s life; while earlier in the week a Texas mother held her six month old baby in her arms as, minutes later, he died after doctors removed his breathing tube against the mothers wishes – all the result of a “Texas futile care law” that the very same President signed as Governor of Texas in 1999.

Republicans don’t think we should “play god” by removing her feeding tube…thoroughly ignoring the fact that human beings – not god – inserted the tube in the first place. Somehow we will all sleep better at night as Terri quietly suffers from years of bed sores and infections; treated liberally with IV antibiotics causing the inevitable secondary infections of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus or Clostridium Difficile or the host of other bacteria that we are breeding into superbugs with our irresponsible use of antibiotics.

The weird thing is that I agree with the Democrats on this issue who are, surprisingly, supporting Floridas right to govern itself and respecting states rights in general. Weirder still are the two local AM conservative talk shows (Mark Williams and Paul and Phil) who both stated that Terri's health care is paid for by all of us through Medicare. Did our planet cross into the Twilight Zone last Friday or am I just expecting too much consistency here?

Meanwhile millions of women and children don’t have health insurance in this country. Somehow the first people to get a life raft on a sinking ship are obscured by Adam Smith’s invisible hand, and we are still able to sleep okay at night. Hypocrisy must be the strongest narcotic known to man.