Terri Schiavo's death is only the begining

If you think the battle over Terri Schiavo was about a young woman dying in a Florida hospice, Think again.
To Tom Delay, George W. Bush, Randall Terry and Karl Rove Terri didn't matter at all. They saw her tragedy as an opportunity to mobilize the faithful forces in their current political battles.

The Nation Magazine correctly sees "Schiavo as Prologue>":

"The Terri Schiavo case was no sideshow. ... the entire episode might have seemed a bizarre, media-driven distraction from pressing issues of war and the economy. In fact, the case goes to the heart of political choices confronting the country.
For leaders of the Christian right, the case was only their most recent attempt to elevate to the level of national crusade issues like gay unions and abstinence-only sex education. Each invokes moral alarm (the morality determined by the self-righteous) against considered, scientifically informed public policy, and each involves a demand for state intrusion into well-established zones of privacy and civil rights. Each also serves as a surrogate issue for a movement whose main target is abortion rights--rights that retain overwhelming public support. Antiabortion fanatics who preened before the Pinellas Park press corps were not so much speaking to the general public as raising the temperature of their own faithful.

While brandishing the Constitution-which he has obviously never read,
According to CNN,
"DeLay condemned the judges who at both the state and federal level declined to order that Schiavo be kept alive artificially.
'This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change' the Texas Republican said. 'The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior....
"Speaking with reporters later in Houston, DeLay said lawmakers 'will look at an arrogant and out of control judiciary that thumbs its nose at Congress and the President.'
Asked if that included the possibility of the House bringing impeachment charges against judges involved in the Schiavo case, DeLay said, "There's plenty of time to look into that."
"I never thought I'd see the day when a U.S. judge stopped feeding a living American so that they took 14 days to die," he added.

Can you hear echos of the fight to put Bush/Rove's right-wing judges on the bench?