Congress reconvened for Terri Schiavo on a Sunday night. n/t

[Horse with no Name]

[Ozymanithrax]

1. But this time it is Congress that's brain dead.

[Horse with no Name]

3. Aint that the truth. n/t

[spanone]

2. congress wants the country to fail...plain and simple

[meegbear]

4. And ...

U.S. President George W. Bush flew to Washington, D.C. from his vacation in Texas in order to sign the bill into law at 1:11 a.m

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case

[Horse with no Name]

5. Yep. n/t

[gratuitous]

6. The truly startling thing about that episode

Bush actually cut short one of his interminable vacations to bolt back to DC and meddle in that poor woman's demise. And yet, the entire sordid story has just disappeared from our national discourse, even though it's a perfectly good example of Republican extremism, overreach and callousness.

[meegbear]

7. Indeed!