Joe Conason: Shameless Right-Wingers Exploiting Terri Schiavo

By intervening in the sad dispute over Terri Schiavo between her husband and parents, the President and his Congressional allies have again revealed how little respect they have for any conservative or constitutional principle that doesn’t enhance their partisan power. In the name of defending human life, they have swept aside their own party’s traditional commitment to federalist respect for state law and to the separation of powers between the legislature and the judiciary. In the name of equal protection under the law, they have departed from all traditional notions of legality.
(New York Observer)