More Hypocrisy from the Right

Note: the following was written while offline last Wednesday. I forgot to post until now.

A report on the front page of papers everywhere today provided details about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against Attorney General Gonzalez, actually the Bush administration, by preserving physicians’ rights in Oregon to prescribe lethal prescription drugs to terminally ill patients, thereby permitting them to die with dignity or commit suicide, whichever slant you choose. I ask those of you in either camp, but especially you on the right, to suspend your moral self-righteousness and look at the hypocrisy contained in the quotes from the Bush camp, as they relate to this and another event that was also reported in your paper today. Here are the quotes:

Scott McClellan, White House press secretary said that the administration was disappointed in the ruling, but added that Bush “remains fully committed to building a culture of life . . . that is built on valuing life at all stages.”

Justice Antonin Scalia said in his dissent “If the term ‘legitimate medical purpose’ has any meaning, it surely excludes the prescription of drugs to produce death.”

Four pages later, in the Houston Chronicle, a headline reads “Second shot needed to execute elderly inmate in California”. How can this possibly be, by an administration that sits above all else in this country, that “values life at all stages” and believes that prescription drugs should not be used “to produce death”, that this person was allowed to die? And how do these people keep a straight face when they say and write this stuff? Just as baffling is that there are about 30 to 40 percent of you out there that eat it up and don’t think twice about how these idiots are ruining our country. Wake up America, before it’s too late!