From Anchoress:

So, Michael Schiavo says he doens’t KNOW what Terri wants…
Seems Michael told Larry King that he doesn’t know what Terri wants, but knows what he wants.

and

Nurse’s Affidavit Says Terri Can Swallow Normally

Go read both posts.

LaShawn Barber has more.

Scroll Down for more on Terri and Check the March Archives too.

There’s great article in the Washington Times which discusses how socialism as an ideology is an utter failure, but continues to thrive because the institutions that control information refuse to reveal the truth due to their own bias. The solution: us bloggers.

No problem here, I’ll lend a hand destroying the socialist myth.

Via Reuters:

Today, I signed into law a bill that will allow federal courts to hear a claim by or on behalf of Terri Schiavo for violation of her rights relating to the withholding or withdrawal of food, fluids, or medical treatment necessary to sustain her life. In cases like this one, where there are serious questions and substantial doubts, our society, our laws, and our courts should have a presumption in favor of life. This presumption is especially critical for those like Terri Schiavo who live at the mercy of others.

The bill passed and is on it’s way to the President for signature. More as I get it.

Final Vote 203-58.

UPDATE: Via Fox – W signed the bill.

From CNN:

In a very brief session on Sunday, House Republicans called a recess when Democrats made it clear they would not let the bill pass on a voice vote, requiring a quorum for a roll call vote.

Meanwhile Terri Schiavo’s mother was pleading for Democrat lawmakers not to politicize this issue and vote to save Terri’s life. A party that screams “quagmire” prior to elections where it will embolden terrorists, that belittles holocaust suffering by comparing Republicans to Nazis and that refuses to recognize the emancipation of millions of people as an inherently good thing, is incapable of seeing beyond its own political ambitions.

Apparently facts really don’t matter any more. It’s all about cheap political points. It’s not about whether Terri is truly in a vegetative state. It’s not about the medical substantiation or lack thereof. It’s not about whether the word of Terri’s “husband”, who has since fathered a child with another woman, should alone be trusted with conveying Terri’s true wishes in the face of opposition from obviously loving parents.

Because results don’t matter any more the Dems will utilize “technicalities” such as requiring quorum. The result in this case is that a woman will slowly starve to death.
UPDATE: Despite the objections of some Democrats, it looks like a successful vote will happen as Tom Delay openly questions Michael Schiavo’s motives and behaviour. The latest from Bloomberg:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, told reporters in Washington today that it’s possible Schiavo may recover and suggested her husband may have an ulterior motive for wanting her to die. Michael Schiavo should be “at the very least called into question by his curious behavior over the last dozen years, his motives in all this,” DeLay said.

Living with and having children with another woman, while continuing to claim he’s married to Terri. Yeah, I’d call that “curious.” And Bush takes a stand saying we ought to “err on the side of life.” On the right side of history again.

Michael Schiavo continues to show his callous disregard for life, at least the life of his “wife.” In a recent interview he said the following:

“Come down, President Bush,” Schiavo said in a telephone interview. “Come talk to me. Meet my wife. Talk to my wife and see if you get an answer. Ask her to lift her arm to shake your hand. She won’t do it.”

She won’t, Schiavo said, because she can’t.

Can she experience the love of a parent? Can she feel the warmth of the spring sun on her face? Can she listen to Mozart? Can she see and appreciate the world around her? She doesn’t need to “lift her arm” to live life. How convenient it is that he points to her physical inability to prove his case for her death, while at the same time denying verification of her cognitive abilities.

For Terri, life is how Michael defines it.

Here in mid-western Canada the change of seasons is a dramatic metamorphosis. The rise in temperature produces an odd and very brief combination of warm sunshine with snow still on the ground. Our frozen world is quickly melting away, the landscape changing before our eyes. Three foot icicles dangle from the edge of my roof, created by the alternating periods of freezing at night and thawing during the day. Hundreds of miniature streams sprout everywhere, giving passage for melting snow to find lower ground.

Signs of life increase exponentially. The very old, the very young, and those in between who didn’t prefer the benefits of our outdoor winter wonderland, leave their protective cocoons. Our neighborhood is teaming with life again. Children prematurely bring out their bikes, braving the patches of ice and snow still on the roads. They leave their coats and jackets unzipped (OK I do it too) even though it is still quite cool, as if to taunt winter away. With each passing day more birds return from their winter hibernation.

Spring will leave us as quickly as it came. The period of premature unzipping of jackets will be soon followed by the premature wearing of shorts and then summer will be here. It all happens so fast. But change is good. Life is good.

Congress apparently has reached a deal to have Terri Shiavo’s feeding resumed pending an appeal. A vote is expected tomorrow. From ABC News:

“We think we have found a solution” to the Terri Schiavo case, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said at a Capitol Hill news conference.

“We are confident this compromise addresses everyone’s concerns, we are confident it will provide Mrs. Schiavo a clear and appropriate avenue for appeal in federal court, and most importantly, we are confident this compromise will restore nutrition and hydration to Mrs. Schiavo as long as that appeal endures,” he said.

Some semblance of sanity, finally.

Awhile ago I queried what it must be like for a Nazi survivor or a survivor’s relative to witness the belittling of Nazi autrocities with ignorant invocations of Hitler. Victor Davis Hanson just wrote a masterful piece about the causes and effects of comparing Bush to Hitler. I suggest you read it all. After delving into the reasons for the onslought of recent Bush/Hitler comparisons, VDH discusses the effects:

Is there a danger to all this? Plenty. The slander not only brings a president down to the level of an evil murderer, but — as worried Jewish leaders have pointed out — elevates the architect of genocide to the level of an American president. Do the ghosts of six million that were incinerated — or, for that matter, the tens of millions who were killed to promote or stop Hitler’s madness — count for so little that they can be so promiscuously induced when one wishes to object to stopping the filibuster of senatorial nominations or to ignore the objection of Europeans in removing the fascistic Saddam Hussein?

There is something profoundly immoral for a latte-sipping, upscale Westerner of the postmodern age flippantly evoking Hitler when we think of the countless souls lost to the historical record who were systematically starved and gassed in the factories of death of the Third Reich.

VDH concludes his article with the following point:

The final irony? The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory.

Once there has been sufficient time to allow the opportunistic political winds of passion to die down history will indeed judge Bush as one of the greatest promoters of democracy known to man. Until then, expect his opponents to compare him to the worst humanity has to offer.

UPDATE: Betsy has some thoughts on this too.

Find a video of Iraqi prisoners being humiliated, or an American convoy being blown up, or of Micheal Jackson simply walking out of a courtroom and it will get constant media play. Yet here we are at the apex of a furious societal debate about whether to starve a woman to death based on the assumption that she is a vegetable and videos surface showing this purported vegetable laughing, smiling, or otherwise responding positively to loved ones, and there’s complete silence from old media. Isn’t this “news”? I was shocked when I first saw them, as was my wife, as undoubtedly anyone else would be. They are shockingly revealing, and yet the media choses not to show them. Why?

Is it because those advocating that Terri Schiavo should live are being grouped in with “right wing” pro- lifers? Is the message being lost on the messengers as was the case with the Swift Vets? Is old media so blinded by their left leaning bias that they refuse to show obvious evidence of life in somone that is presumed to be dead?