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On Thursday, Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) fired a staffer for writing an unsigned memo that referred to the Terri Schiavo debacle as “is a great political issue ... and a tough issue for Democrats. This is an important moral issue and the pro-life base will be excited that the Senate is debating this important issue.”

Everyone has been shocked—shocked—to discover gambling in Rick's—I mean, that the Schiavo thing was regarded as simply a political issue. I mean, good lord! The only thing more aggravating than the incredible hypocrisy of the Democrats who get up and bitch about how the Republicans wrote the Schiavo legislation to score political points is the utter dishonesty with which the entire GOP leadership has claimed that the Schiavo legislation was not written to score political points. I suppose it's possible that a few of the conservative bloggers who've been questioning the authenticity of the memo might be naive enough to actually believe that Tom DeLay was doing this out of the goodness of his heart, but when I read something like this:

The memo had been disavowed by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, both primary forces behind Congress passing the bill and sending it to President Bush on March 21.

In recent days, conservative Internet bloggers questioned whether the memo was authentic or had really been sent to GOP senators as first reported. The Washington Times reported Wednesday it surveyed the Senate and found only one senator, Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa, who acknowledged seeing the memo.

Well, that's clear evidence that Tom Harkin is the least dis-honest man in the U.S. Senate (talk about damning with faint praise) and that Tom DeLay and Bill Frist are going to hell.

The Terri Schiavo legislation was political. I mean, really!