Out On De Limb With DeLay

Hey, we definitely are 100% red, white and blue for moral values and all that, and mind you it's not because the polling isn't looking good on this (that would be pretty cynical, would it not?), but you do understand we are very, very busy, don't you? Washington Post, via TheNextHurrah:

"A week after their unprecedented intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, Republican congressional leaders find themselves in a moral and political thicket, having advanced the cause as a right-to-life issue -- only to confront polls showing that the public does not see it that way. Republican lawmakers and others engaged in the debate say an internal party dispute over the Schiavo case has ruptured, at least temporarily, the uneasy alliance between economic and social conservatives that twice helped President Bush get elected." Schiavo Case Tests Priorities Of GOP

As to Mr. DeLay's motives for pushing this? On one hand, it may be that he "faced considerable pressure from Christian conservative groups". On the other (according to a "senior GOP lawmaker involved in the negotiations, who did not want to speak for the record"), "many House Republicans were dubious and suspected that the leader's ethics problems were a motivating factor." Naw!! Couldn't be.