Remember Terry Schaivo? Tragic case of politiciains and the rightwing media capitalizing on human tragedy, to be sure.
It was an interesting case because it was the husband, who had the legal right to make the decision. But, the Republicans tried everything they could, up to and including an act of congress, to violate that legal right.
So, they attempt to bypass the law, in order to use federal government muscle to thwart the legal rights of a private citizen............ And some of us still believe the lie that those guys are all about small government and protecting individual rights.
To my mind it was the single most obvious act of ideological hypocrisy and grandstanding of my lifetime. Yet,....they get a pass from their Legion of Lemmings. Amazing.
There are other examples of them using psychological trickery to thwart our rights of free speech, assembly and, of course, the recent attempts to curb voting. It's sickening, really, to watch grinning Americans follow these snakes down the path to servitude thinking they're somehow serving the cause of "freedom". Far from it.
Dave