March 26, 2005

Rethugs grumbling about leaders' Schiavo stand
It should have been a rightwinger’s wetdream. A chance to unite “moral values” voters and get them up in arms, like angry townspeople armed with rakes and pitchforks storming the castle of the godless prevert gay-hugging leftist commie elite and destroying them once and for all.

Then real life got in the way, and as is its wont, took a dump all over them.

One senior GOP lawmaker involved in the negotiations said DeLay, who is fighting ethics charges on several fronts, faced considerable pressure from Christian conservative groups to respond to pleas by Schiavo's parents. The lawmaker said many House Republicans were dubious and suspected the leader's ethics problems were a motivating factor.

Republican concerns grew, the senior House GOP lawmaker said, as a succession of federal judges, some of them conservative appointees, rejected Congress' entreaty. "A lot of members are saying, 'Why did you put us through this?' " said the lawmaker.


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