Great column by Peggy Noonan on Terri Schiavo
Peggy Noonan
writes in the Opinion Journal and delivers a thoughtful piece about whose responsibility it is if Terri is allowed to die:
If Terri Schiavo is killed, Republicans will pay a political price.
It appears we've reached the pivotal moment in the Terri Schiavo case, and it also appears our politicians, our senators and congressmen, might benefit from some observations.
In America today all big stories have three dimensions: a legal angle, a public-relations angle and a political angle. In the Schiavo case some of our politicians seem not to be fully appreciating the second and third. This is odd.
Here's both a political and a public-relations reality: The Republican Party controls the Senate, the House and the White House. The Republicans are in charge. They have the power. If they can't save this woman's life, they will face a reckoning from a sizable portion of their own base. And they will of course deserve it.
Well worth reading if you are a policy maker or if you have not written your representatives yet -- you should. I have.
Posted by DaveH at March 18, 2005 7:51 PM