Hypocrite

The Congressional Republicans, who often seem to think that they are God's Own Party, seem hellbent on doing unto others precisely as they would NOT want done to them.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who has helped lead a congressional effort to keep Terri Schiavo alive, joined members of his own family nearly 17 years ago in allowing doctors not to take extraordinary measures to extend his father's life, a newspaper reported Sunday.

DeLay had just been re-elected to his third term in Congress in 1988 when his father, Charles DeLay, was severely injured in an accident. As the elder DeLay's vital organs began failing, the family chose not to connect him to a dialysis machine or take other measures to prolong his life, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday, citing court documents, medical records and interviews with family members.

I don't think the Delay family should have been allowed to do that. I think that a pack of faceless Washington bureaucrats should have made that decision for them.

Tom Delay would have wanted that, I'm sure. After all, it's one of his principles.