Right wingers continue to dance on Terry Schiavo's grave

[Mortos]

Just heard some nationally syndicated right wing asshole on AM radio re-writing history on the shameful Terry Schiavo bill. This liar said the vote in the Senate was unanimous and nearly unanimous in the house. This is a outrageous lie. He, and I didn't hear who it was, this was on AM 1000 KTOK in Oklahoma City at 11:15 pm, said that liberals were trying to make this issue seem like a right wing religious issue and it wasn't. The truth is, it was a blatant pander to the right wing religious by the phony right wing politicians.

I don't know why he was talking about this topic but it is an example we will see time and time again in the approach to the election. The right wing will try to paint the Democrats as complicit in their massive failures and the average listener won't bother to check the facts. They know they are fucked so they will try to make people believe the democrats are as bad as them so it makes no difference who you vote for. That is their only chance; to blur history and confuse people about their own recollections of just how shitty these guys have been.

By the way, this is how the "unanimous" votes actually went:

On Palm Sunday, three Republican Senators voted on SB686, a special bill directing a Federal Judge in Florida to hear an appeal from Terri Schiavo's parents regarding the 18 March removal of her feeding tube.

The Sun Sentinel reports that there were three Senators present for the "unanimous" vote: Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-TN ; Senator John Warner, R-VA ; and Senator Mel Martinez, R-FL. (Three republican scumbags pushed through this legislation on a Sunday, 3! you lying fuck)

The bill then moved to the House, where a simple majority of members was required for a quorum (there are 435 members) and where suspension of the rules required a two-thirds vote of those present. Democrats forced a roll call vote.

The bill passed 203 (156-Rs and 47-Ds)(3x more Republicans voted for this and shame on the dems who did) to 58 (5-Rs and 53-Ds) ; there were 174 members absent.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Nobody mentioned that it was an illegal bill in the first place.

In the Constitution it says that no Bill of Attainder may be passed. That means that no Law may be passed with a specific person's name on it, to help or hinder a particular person, and this bill in Florida had Mrs. Schiavo's name on it. That is Constitutionally illegal as hell.

I learned that in law school and was surprised that none of the pundits mentioned that. But then, I shouldn't be surprised at peoples' ignorance, even that of so-called experts.


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