and it's a simple one: Fuck the Constitution.
On Imus this morning (I know, I know...can't look away...) Pat managed to distill the entire Schiavo circus into the kind of nutshell idea the sheeple seem to latch on to:
An activist judge is putting Terri Schiavo to death. The judiciary in this country is out of control. It has to be brought to heel.
"Activist judges have imposed abortion and gay marriage on this country. The executive branch, good people like the President and his brother, with the help of congress, have to strip power from the judiciary and put it back in its proper place."
You can bet that while Chimp, Delay, and Jeb are laying low this week, wiping the blowback off their faces, Karl is working on just this message: Terri's 'execution'= activist judges. And all our nattering about the Constitution, federalism, balance of powers, Madison, Jefferson, death with dignity, civil rights, unintended consequences, medical ethics, right to privacy, whatever-- will be ignored.
The one message that will be heard is Pat Buchanan's message this morning:
"It's the duty of the President to protect the people from the courts."