Comments on: Even now that sweet memory lingers… http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/ \"...a somewhat popular blogger\" Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:20:27 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: freepatriot http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5286 freepatriot Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:02:41 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5286 <p>stupid is as duncan hunter does</p> stupid is as duncan hunter does

]]> By: Hatmandu http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5264 Hatmandu Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:54:03 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5264 <p>Sam beat me to it, but I second this. Even at the time, I could see it in the eyes of the Wingers I work with (at least the ones who still had at least one artery pumping blood to their brains) : The modern GOP had jumped the shark.</p> Sam beat me to it, but I second this. Even at the time, I could see it in the eyes of the Wingers I work with (at least the ones who still had at least one artery pumping blood to their brains) : The modern GOP had jumped the shark.

]]> By: nitpicker http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5254 nitpicker Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:02:52 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5254 <p>Well, I sure hope that K-Lo–who is <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODAyMDU4NTM5ZTY0NzAzOTJlYzg2N2FmMDRkYzA5MGI=" rel="nofollow">shocked</a> to find that Obama regrets the Schiavo incident–doesn’t stumble upon this <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/wfb200503231118.asp" rel="nofollow">old column by Bill Buckley</a> as she combs through her scrapbook to write the complete Buckley memorial. She might pop a vessel.<br /> </p><blockquote>In the case of Terri Schiavo, orderly thought would have led us to believe that her treatment was the next of kin’s to decide. But human concern for Mrs. Schiavo interposed qualifiers…</blockquote> <p>Those many who pleaded to continue the patient’s life emphasized the theoretical possibility of a cure, or a rehabilitation of sorts. On this point her parents argued most tenaciously. They released, over the weekend, tapes made of their afflicted daughter, which could be interpreted as showing Terri to be responding to stimuli of various kinds. </p> <p>But the world was looking at a woman whose immobilizing heart attack happened fifteen years ago. An anonymous doctor declared flatly that she had a flat EEG — electroencephalogram, the brain wave test… </p> <p>It was unseemly for critics to compare her end with that of victims of the Nazi regime. There was never a more industrious inquiry, than in the Schiavo case, into the matter of rights formal and inchoate. It is simply wrong, whatever is felt about the eventual abandonment of her by her husband, to use the killing language. She was kept alive for fifteen years, underwent a hundred medical ministrations, all of them in service of an abstraction, which was that she wanted to stay alive. There are laws against force-feeding, and no one will know whether, if she had had the means to convey her will in the matter, she too would have said, Enough. </p> Well, I sure hope that K-Lo–who is shocked to find that Obama regrets the Schiavo incident–doesn’t stumble upon this old column by Bill Buckley as she combs through her scrapbook to write the complete Buckley memorial. She might pop a vessel.

In the case of Terri Schiavo, orderly thought would have led us to believe that her treatment was the next of kin’s to decide. But human concern for Mrs. Schiavo interposed qualifiers…

Those many who pleaded to continue the patient’s life emphasized the theoretical possibility of a cure, or a rehabilitation of sorts. On this point her parents argued most tenaciously. They released, over the weekend, tapes made of their afflicted daughter, which could be interpreted as showing Terri to be responding to stimuli of various kinds.

But the world was looking at a woman whose immobilizing heart attack happened fifteen years ago. An anonymous doctor declared flatly that she had a flat EEG — electroencephalogram, the brain wave test…

It was unseemly for critics to compare her end with that of victims of the Nazi regime. There was never a more industrious inquiry, than in the Schiavo case, into the matter of rights formal and inchoate. It is simply wrong, whatever is felt about the eventual abandonment of her by her husband, to use the killing language. She was kept alive for fifteen years, underwent a hundred medical ministrations, all of them in service of an abstraction, which was that she wanted to stay alive. There are laws against force-feeding, and no one will know whether, if she had had the means to convey her will in the matter, she too would have said, Enough.

]]> By: SamFromUtah http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5251 SamFromUtah Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:34:50 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5251 <p><i>The Terry Schiavo flap was when the whole country finally got to see the wingnutty goodness at the heart of the Republican party.</i></p> <p>Yup. Between that and Katrina a lot of scales fell from a lot of eyes in ‘05. Not enough, though.</p> The Terry Schiavo flap was when the whole country finally got to see the wingnutty goodness at the heart of the Republican party.

Yup. Between that and Katrina a lot of scales fell from a lot of eyes in ‘05. Not enough, though.

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5246 Phoenix Woman Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:08:37 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5246 <p>No kidding. When FOX’s own viewer polls showed that 80% of them sided with Michael Schiavo, it should have been obvious that this was a bad issue for them. But they kept stabbing themselves with the Terri dagger, over and over and over again.</p> <p>I pick this, which followed so hard on the heels of the big failed push to destroy Social Security, as the moment when it suddenly became clear to a critical mass of Americans that the Republicans in general, and Bush’s people in particular, were fucking batshit insane. Bush never saw the north side of 50% approval after that.</p> No kidding. When FOX’s own viewer polls showed that 80% of them sided with Michael Schiavo, it should have been obvious that this was a bad issue for them. But they kept stabbing themselves with the Terri dagger, over and over and over again.

I pick this, which followed so hard on the heels of the big failed push to destroy Social Security, as the moment when it suddenly became clear to a critical mass of Americans that the Republicans in general, and Bush’s people in particular, were fucking batshit insane. Bush never saw the north side of 50% approval after that.

]]> By: Bill http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5242 Bill Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:45:15 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5242 <p>Already started oddly enough with a post by Jane on FDL…<br /> written from the perspective of those who knew him B4 the Republicans turned bad…</p> Already started oddly enough with a post by Jane on FDL…
written from the perspective of those who knew him B4 the Republicans turned bad…

]]> By: humboldtblue http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5241 humboldtblue Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:18:37 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5241 <p><em>Keeps me searching for a heart of thorns … </em></p> Keeps me searching for a heart of thorns …

]]> By: captphealy http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5235 captphealy Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:13:13 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5235 <p>Speaking of sweet memories, William F. Buckley has passed away.</p> <p>Spinning in his grave to begin immediately following interment.</p> Speaking of sweet memories, William F. Buckley has passed away.

Spinning in his grave to begin immediately following interment.

]]> By: IntelVet http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5234 IntelVet Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:17:16 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5234 <p>Schiavo?</p> <p>Doesn’t she write for PJ Media?</p> Schiavo?

Doesn’t she write for PJ Media?

]]> By: heydave http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5232 heydave Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:46:32 +0000 http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2008/02/27/even-now-that-sweet-memory-lingers/#comment-5232 <p>A thousand times yes!</p> A thousand times yes!

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