snipped from Reuters

[quesarah]

Note: emphasis is mine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Terri Schiavo case has had the unexpected effect of uniting most Americans, whether Republicans or Democrats, around a consensus that the government should stay out of families' life and death decisions.

"You don't see many 80 percents in polls nowadays," said pollster Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center.

He was referring to a CBS poll last week which found that 82 percent of Americans felt Congress should have stayed out of Schiavo's case. The Florida woman's husband and parents have been battling for years over whether to remove the feeding tube keeping her alive, 15 years since she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state after suffering a heart attack.

The poll also showed 75 percent of respondents said end-of-life issues were not the province of government. Another poll this month by Time magazine found that 70 percent of respondents thought President Bush should not have intervened in the case and 65 percent said he and Congress were motivated more by politics than values and principles.

Comments

[woe2you.livejournal.com]

Watch this space for the harrowing story of the brave people who died to bring an un-spun poll to the public eye.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

It's a jungle out there, man.

[ewokgirl.livejournal.com]

I also saw that Bush is at 45% approval rating right about now. I just can't believe it took people so long to figure things out. And now we are stuck with him for 4 years! Arg!

[scrump.livejournal.com]

Here's what I tell myself: this country survived Nixon for damn near two full terms. We can survive this.

Think of this as the Caligula/Nero era.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

True. We are bigger than The Idiot, though his idiocy is mighty impressive.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

If we are lucky, his stupidity will fuck the GOP in the arse for the next 4 terms. *crosses fingers*

[among-the-waves.livejournal.com]

... but they might like that.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

..but they would never admit it.

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

I'd have to agree. I was really suprised that it went all the way up to Bush to make this decision on a woman's life.

[biogeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's sad that her husband and her parents can't agree, but it boils down to the fact that multiple judges in multiple courts believe the evidence brought by her husband to show that Terri Schiavo would not want to be kept alive by artificial means.