Since it now appears that Bill Frist has broken with the president to lead the parade on stem cell research (which I also am for by the way), let's be clear what a great "physician . . . healer" (quoting Dr. Frist, referring to himself repeatedly on television yesterday) or should we say, "doctor" that he is. These are his words below.

“I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office. . . She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli.” Turns out this diagnosis was malpractice. If he were still practicing medicine would he be indicted? In fact, as many who had reviewed the material had said, Terry was in a persistent vegetative state just as all the doctors and judges understood. It's not hard to believe that she had told her husband not to let her live that way. My wife and I have had that conversation. Congratulations to her husband for keeping his promises to her. [Okay, I can't resist. Don't you find it ironic that Terry was living on a mal-practice award of the type that has now been eliminated by the Republican congress. In today's new world there would have been no money to sustain her and she'd have been dead long, long before.]

Why was Frist involved? He was simply running to the front of a public opinion parade. He wanted to hold the banner. Turns out, the vision center of her brain was long since dead. She could not see.

What kind of leader is Bill Frist? What kind of physician makes medical judgements about a patient based on videotape?

Tom Delay's position about the resolution of things was to make threats towards the judiciary: “We will look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president.” No body has mentioned that when Mr. Delay's father was being sustained on life-support that he participated in the decision to remove the life-support. You know, being able to let people die when they are at the end of their life is part of being an adult. Keeping them breathing is not for them, it's for you. When people are at the end of their lives, the adults around them should not be thinking about themselves but about the loved one, who is already shaking hands with the saints. We let them go on where we are sure to follow.

It's not about God, folks. He/She can take care of Him/Herself. It's about politics and power and greedily taking the people's money, their land, their future, and their happiness. . . taking their inalienable rights.