Secret Agent Man on the Republican party

and sadly I agree.

I have some grim views on the Republican party. They’re darker now. I used to think Republicans looked favorably on the culture of life, but just didn’t “get it” enough to follow through on their promises and good intentions. Now I see them playing games with that culture, treating it with a thinly-disguised contempt as a simple pawn in the larger game of creating “red America” for the sake of other goals. Pilate sent Jesus to Herod, hoping that Herod would take the blame for whatever happened to Jesus. So the Republicans have sent Terri to the federal courts. They know there’s no real punch behind procedural due process arguments, especially not in this case, which has been “litigated to death.” They hire swarms of smart lawyers to tell them things like that. They know the only hope for Terri — for all of us — is a substantive right to continue living even if one has become repugnant to ulcerous hearts unable to summon the charity that thinks of mankind as a family. That substantive right can only be recognized if we abandon the “Roe / Casey” theology. The Republicans — who gave us authors of Casey and Roe — know that too. But instead of giving America a pro-life Constitution — which they’ve promised to do for a generation or more — they labored like a volcano and produced a jurisdictional hiccup that offers hope with one hand and snatches it away with the other. Soon, during the next election cycle, they will turn to us like Pilate turned, and say their hands are clean.

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