It's time to start a serious campaign to impeach George W. Bush.

Doctors Are Warned on Fetus Care
Guidelines Are Issued on Born-Alive Infants Protection Act

By Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 23, 2005; Page A07

The Bush administration issued guidelines yesterday advising physicians and hospitals that under a 2002 law they are obligated to care for fetuses "born alive" naturally or in the process of an abortion, and medical providers could face penalties for withholding treatment.

Tom DeLay is right - someone is out to get him. But who?

Karl Rove, of course. Rove's fingerprints are all over the March 28 Wall Street Journal editorial that stuck the first knife deep into DeLay's back. The WSJ editors don't give a crap about corruption by Republicans, which they have aggressively justified since the rise of Gingrich and DeLay in the early 1990's. They only decided to suddenly turn on DeLay because Rove ordered them to.

From Media Matters:

Despite a lack of evidence, several media sources have repeated conservative speculation and accusations that Democrats secretly authored a "talking points" memo that described the Terri Schiavo case as a "great political issue" for Senate Republicans. These baseless accusations, apparently hatched on right-wing blogs and in conservative media such as The American Spectator, were given credibility by The Washington Post and CNN's Inside Politics. But as recent reports indicate, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) has admitted publicly that one of his aides is the true author of the memo.

Because I have very little that is nice to say about Martinez I tend to see this confirmation that he is nothing more than another neo-con toady and a suckup to Cuban Americans by the bushites as a good thing.

You only need to spend a few seconds with Mel Martinez to realize the Florida Republican Senator is a few beers short of a six pack, but his lame-brained excuse for how a memo outlining the GOP’s plan to turn the Terri Schiavo tragedy into a political opportunity fell into Democratic hands sends political intelligence to subterranean levels.

Martinez claims he gave the memo to Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin because he thought they were only “talking points” and says he never read the document before turning it over to the opposition.

Oh happy day.

Dear MoveOn member,

This morning, the Washington Post and the New York Times each broke new scandals involving Republican Majority Leader Rep. Tom DeLay. According to the Times, DeLay paid his wife and daughter more than $500,000 of his political donors' money over the last four years. And the Post article highlights a seedy 1997 trip DeLay took, underwritten by "a mysterious company located in the Bahamas" that was tied to Russian business interests.

This broke my heart. Any questions about who the party of death is

Where Were The Republicans?
Submitted by Oliver Willis on March 19, 2005 - 4:37pm.
As the Republican party continues to play the part of national ghouls over the Terry Schiavo case, I wonder where the emergency acts of legislation were, where was the national grandstanding when a hospital decided a 6-month old black child had to be removed from his breathing equipment?

The baby wore a cute blue outfit with a teddy bear covering his bottom. The 17-pound, nearly 6-month-old boy wiggled with eyes open, his mother said, and smacked his lips.

Living just a few miles from Tampa/St. Pete I have braced myself for a long drawn out series of media extravaganza regarding the Schindler/Shiavo feud staring Randle Terry freshly regurgitated from the slim pits of hell, Jessie Jackson doing his best to get our minds and memories off his beautifully orchestrated Jim Baker impersonation and that lowest of the low Frank Pavone the so called priest of the Schindler family that makes the pedophile priests Richard Lavigne, Paul Shanley and the now dead John Geoghan seem like saints, I am almost relieved to hear that Pope John Paul II is taking the worlds attention away from this repulsive personal tragedy.

From the Center for American Progress:

On a day that should have been reserved for the Schiavo and Schindler families, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay again thrust himself into the limelight to issue a thinly veiled threat against judges. Following Terri Schiavo's death, DeLay released a statement warning that "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today." This vague and provocative comment came in the midst of a broadside of attacks against those judges – several of them self-described conservatives appointed by conservative presidents – whom DeLay said typified "an arrogant, out of control, unaccountable judiciary." With attacks on judges increasing across the country, DeLay's rhetoric is the height of recklessness and poor judgment.

Sam Parry writes:

The media frenzy surrounding the Terri Schiavo case is new evidence of the American Right’s ability to dominate national news cycles, a power that has become possibly the most intimidating force in modern U.S. politics. In the Schiavo case, however, the Right has discovered that even its impressive message machinery sometimes can push the envelope too far.

In the Schiavo tragedy, leaders of the Christian Right and the Republican Party marketed themselves as the defenders of life and painted their liberal adversaries as intellectual elitists lacking compassion for a defenseless woman. Conservative leaders also hoped to rally their base around the need for more conservative judges who would defend the so-called “culture of life.”

With stunning bravado, the Right played on the Schiavo story’s appeal as a round-the-clock cable TV drama: a life-or-death countdown; grieving parents; a husband who could be made into the heavy; supposedly insensitive judges; Republican leaders rushing to the rescue, including both Jeb and George W. Bush.

To: National Desk

Contact: Dan Allen or Shannon Flaherty, 202-225-4000, both for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay

SUGAR LAND, Texas, March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today released the following statement mourning the passing of Terri Schiavo:

"Mrs. Schiavo's death is a moral poverty and a legal tragedy. This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change. The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today. Today we grieve, we pray, and we hope to God this fate never befalls another. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Schindlers and with Terri Schiavo's friends in this time of deep sorrow."