christian grantham
Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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March 19, 2005

Of course Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay won't give up on Terri Schiavo. Issueing a subpeona for her lifeless body to be displayed before the United States Congress is just his latest desperate attempt to suck the oxygen out of increasing media focus on multiple investigations into his ethically admonished felonious activities. Who else among Congressional Republican leadership needs a dying woman's body as a foil to take the heat for the party's ethical lapses more than the Republican Party's chosen House leader?

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said that he and other Republican members of Congress would continue to work through the weekend to come up with a bill to force doctors to reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.

After a heated legal and political battle, the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube was removed Friday afternoon, despite a last-ditch effort by Congress to prevent it.

On Friday, House Republicans took the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Terri Schiavo to testify before a Congressional committee, but a Florida judge refused that order. Then late Friday, a House committee filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking justices to reinsert Schiavo's feeding tube while the committee files appeals.

The Supreme Court denied that appeal without comment, and in a statement issued Saturday, DeLay called the court's decision a "moral and legal tragedy."
[DeLay Says He's Not Giving Up Schiavo Fight - ABCNews - 03-19-05]

Terri Schiavo and her husband's right within what Tom DeLay calls the "sacred institution of marriage" is of no consequence when a scurrilous politician like DeLay needs cover. The arrogance with which the Republican controlled Congress is handling this deeply personal issue is a clear sign of the entire party's disdain for the law, the judicial system sworn to uphold it, and the democratic balance of power.