March 22, 2005


The Ultimate Flip Flop

With the Republican-controlled Congress intervening in Terri Schiavo's medical care over the weekend, a Political Wire reader sends us these interesting items:
2000 Republican Platform: "Medical decision-making should be in the hands of physicians and their patients."

2004 Republican Platform: "We must attack the root causes of high health care costs by... putting patients and doctors in charge of medical decisions."
Weren't those same Republicans waving flip flops at the 2004 convention to taunt Sen. John Kerry?

Update: Dave Winer points us to an even more amazing example. "The federal law that President Bush signed early yesterday in an effort to prolong Terri Schiavo's life appears to contradict a right-to-die law that he signed as Texas governor, prompting cries of hypocrisy from congressional Democrats and some bioethicists."


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