Rantings of the NY Times' Resident "B---h"

You'd think that after a while, even a dodo like MoDo would learn to keep her big, fat mouth shut.

No, not really. It's part of what she considers her "charm."

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd blasted Republicans on Monday for "turning over the Constitution" in a bid to prevent the starvation-execution of Terri Schiavo.

"They can't take one case like this just to please Christian conservatives and turn over the Constitution like that," Dowd told radio host Don Imus.

MoDo wouldn't know the Constitution from a back issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

Like this passage of Amendment V: "No person shall be…deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…"

Given that Mrs. Schiavo's death sentence is based upon an appallingly incomplete body of evidence regarding her physical and mental condition, and that the presiding judge (George Greer) has persistently refused to take into consideration evidence that would contradict the claims of the plaintiff (Michael "Scumbag" Schiavo), and thereby save his wife's life, it can absolutely be argued that Mrs. Schiavo has been not only denied due process, but is in fact being railroaded literally to death in what amounts to state-sanctioned torture and murder.

Or Amendment VIII: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

Terri, of course, has not been convicted of a crime. Yet she's being put to a horrible death that no death row inmate would ever incur.

Or Section 1 of Amendment XIV: "…No State shall make or enforce any law which shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

There's your grounds for federal court review.

As for Congress having no right to take such action, MoDo is full of crap on that too:

Amendment XIV, Section 5: "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

If Dowd's manifest ignorance is exceeded by anything, it's her puerile partisan malevolence:

"It's hard to tell who is less appealing: Tom DeLay or [Terri's] husband," Dowd added.

Well, at least she acknowledges that Terri's husband is a scumbag, to compare him on a par with a man she utterly loathes and detests and fantasizes about repeatedly kicking in the groin while he's tied up and staked to a flaming anthill.

The Times scribe praised Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-FL, who excoriated Republicans over the weekend for trying to save Terri.

"It is particularly hypocritical when you have people who say they advocate on behalf of the defense of marriage who now insert themselves between a husband
and his wife," Schultz railed.

"I thought she made a lot of good arguments," gushed Dowd.

No marriage defender has ever upheld the right of one spouse to kill the other one. Maybe MoDo or Deb-Deb can dig up a quote and source.

Kinda doubt they'll find any in Cosmo's archives, though.