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host · 03-24-2005, 10:52 AM

Here are the remarlks of majority leader of the house of representatives of the United States. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this man shilling for himself, Schiavo, and God in the same sentence? Can even some of you who support Bush and his alliance in congress recognize that supporting Tom Delay and his activist religiously themed base may be working against your own best interests ?

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<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/24/national/w003542S13.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/24/national/w003542S13.DTL</a>
Schiavo Tragedy Taking on Political Tone

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

Thursday, March 24, 2005

(03-24) 04:49 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

Terri Schiavo's personal tragedy is taking on a more political tone in Congress, where House Majority Leader Tom DeLay likens the struggle over her fate to attacks on himself, and a Democratic critic accuses Republicans of opportunism.

"I find it shameful that Mr. DeLay and Republicans have used Ms. Schiavo as their political pawn to kowtow to their conservative base," Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla., said Wednesday as House GOP leaders filed court papers in an increasingly desperate attempt to keep the brain-damaged Florida woman alive.

"It's unfortunate that he thinks his situation is like Terri Schiavo's," added Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, chairman of the House Democratic campaign committee. "That's a distorted view."

For his part, DeLay cast the debate over Schiavo in religious and political terms at the same time.

"One thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo to elevate the visibility of what is going on in America, that Americans would be so barbaric as to pull a feeding tube out of a person that is lucid and starve them to death," he said in remarks Friday to a conservative group and made public Wednesday.

"This is exactly the issue that is going on in America, of attacks against the conservative movement, against me and against many others," added DeLay, lately at the center of a controversy concerning his overseas travel.

DeLay's remarks were made public by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a liberal group. The developments occurred as polls continued to show the public takes a dim view of congressional moves to step into Schiavo's case..............