You know Tom DeLay is just loving that this Schiavo case came along when it did. Facing endless criticism over his ethical lapses and general assiness, DeLay was practically beaming today when he announced that the Congress had, in record time, passed legislation forcing the Schiavo case into the federal courts.
Top lawmakers in both the House and the Senate said they hoped to pass the compromise bill as early as Sunday. They said it would allow Ms. Schiavo's parents to ask a federal judge to restore her feeding tube on the grounds that their daughter's constitutional rights were being violated by the withholding of nutrition needed to keep her alive.
Conservative lawmakers had scrambled to find a way to override a Florida judge's order Friday to remove her feeding tube. Ms. Schiavo's husband, Michael Schiavo, has maintained for years that his wife would not want to be kept alive in her current state by such artificial means.
So Delay gets his distraction, and court decisions are now apparently overturned at the whim of Republican leaders in Congress.
