The questioning apparently did not go well in today’s Supreme Court oral arguments for the Oregon assisted suicide case. Of all the issues on which to throw pro-lifers a bone, it’s swell that the Bush administration chose to follow this one all the way to the Supreme Court, the one that uses federal law to override the clear wishes of a state (Oregon passed an assisted suicide law — twice), and to make illegal a humane act that takes no victims whatsoever (the sick have to ask for and initiate the procedure).

One wonders what the Bush administration expects a terminally sick person in pain to do. Can’t end your life peacefully and painlessly. Can’t take opiate painkillers. If you’re suffering from something medicinal marijuana helps, you’re shit out of luck there, too.

Your only option it seems is to sit there and suffer. Until you die. Sorry. But that’s the price you, sick person, have to pay to help President Bush’s solidify his pro-lifer, drug warrior bona-fides. Federalism schmederalism.

Could someone define “compassionate conservative” for me, again?

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