Strange bedfellows

What's that saying - politics makes strange bedfellows? Here I am on the same side as Ralph Nader! It's short and to the point, and it's right on. Read it all here.

The courts not only are refusing her tube feeding, but have ordered that no attempts be made to provide her water or food by mouth. Terri swallows her own saliva. Spoon feeding is not medical treatment. "This outrageous order proves that the courts are not merely permitting medical treatment to be withheld, it has ordered her to be made dead," Nader and Smith assert.

The medical and rehabilitation experts are split on whether Terri is in a persistent vegetative state or whether Terri can be improved with therapy. There is only one way to know for sure - permit the therapy. That is the only way to resolve all doubts.

Instead, we'll wait for the autopsy to determine her actual condition. You can't make this stuff up.

UPDATE: It gets worse [sort of]. Jesse Jackson has visited Terri and declared "She is being dehydrated to death and that is inhumane. It is immoral and it is unnecessary. There is no rational reason for this to happen" and that her case "transcends politics and family disputes." Don't worry, he also declared that this is about "civil rights", so it's not like this was totally out of character.

This is quite the coalition: W, Jeb, Rush, the Pope, Ralph, and Jesse, not to mention the "religious right"...