Crocodile tears before bedtime
Once again earning his stripes as a “moderate” Republican tool, Glenn “Instacracker” Reynolds has a tearful editorial in Salon:
The Terri Schiavo story is a tragedy in the truest sense. It is a case in which there are no happy endings and in which the mighty fall. One thing that has fallen is the notion of the Republican Party as a bastion of federalism and limited government. Some might argue that this notion was already in doubt, in light of the Bush administration’s less- than-parsimonious budgeting, but pork is part of politics, and you have to expect a certain amount of give in that department.
Widespread Republican support for legislation taking an individual case away from state judges and placing it in front of the federal judiciary is another thing. The “if it saves just one life, it’s worth it” argument has more typically been associated with gun-control activists, and other groups that are generally looked down upon by Republicans, but now many in the GOP seem to have picked it up as a slogan. Indeed, the entire notion of the “rule of law” — itself once a favored slogan of conservatives — seems to have fallen into disrepute. Quite a few conservatives are unhappy about that state of affairs, and I wonder if it doesn’t presage a realignment within the Republican Party, and the fracturing of some alliances on the right.
Payback is a bitch, eh motherfucker? Or, to stay in Biblical terms: he who sows the storm will reap the whirlwind. Don’t come crying to us now, when you’re one of the people who made it possible.