SHAFTWAXER

So yeah, by now everybody and their brother has heard something about Terry Schaivo. Hell, today Jesse Jackson felt the need to get involved in this mess by “consulting” with her parents. The real tragedy in this whole mess is how congress and the media have played out and drawn attention to a painful matter that should only have been up to the family. Now, dick headed pundits on the 24 hour news channels are calling names and disrespecting people they know nothing about. Nice work guys, real fucking classy.

Dr. Bill Frist, the same senator dipshit that said you could catch AIDS from tears and sweat, took the liberty of reviewing some videotape of Terry, and from that alone, he felt that he could make a diagnosis of a patient NOT EVEN IN HIS FIELD OF MEDICINE for the benefit of congress. Not to be outdone, House majority leader Tom Delay, the same person who refuses to talk about his decision to pull the plug on his own father because it’s “too personal”, has NO PROBLEM being the champion of keeping somebody who has been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years alive. He also informed us that “God brought Terry to us” to shine light on what happens to people in America. Ironic that Tom is also trying to pass a bill that would cut 15 billion out of the budget for Medicare recipients, many of which are sustained by a FEEDING TUBE. Isn’t it odd how the Republicans ran on a party platform that medical decisions should be made between the patient, the doctors, and the family? I guess the doctor they were talking about in this case was Bill Frist. Hey Bill, I have a lump here on the side of my ass, can I send you some video so you can have a look at it?

I’m convinced that the “Culture of Life” that Bush and the Republicans are pushing only matters when you are conceived, born, and just as you are about to die. All the unimportant shit in between those 2 points don’t matter unless you are able to make campaign contributions or destroy the gays. If we really cared about life, why would we continue to spend money researching and building more nukes? Why would we spend less than 1% on foreign aid? Why would we not care that EVERY DAY almost 20,000 people die because of poverty and preventable disease? Why wouldn’t we get national health coverage established in our own country? Why wouldn’t we care about working to save MediCare, the REAL crisis, not social security? I’m talking about all the things that allow you to live. Apparently abortion and assisted suicide is more important than these things.

2006 is coming. We will not forget this. And neither will the 83% of Americans who felt that congress had NO BUSINESS holding late night sessions to pass their bill. And George Bush, who wouldn’t fly in to Washington from Texas for the tsunami, was at least able to get off his ass and sign this bill.

2006 is coming.