If anyone ever imagined that the current GOP was anti-government, one look at the crucifixion of Mark McGwire (as if he were a child-molesting crack user) and the entire freakin' Congress called into action to intervene in a state court issue in the Schiavo case, ought to disabuse them of that dream. How people who prattle on (two cents to Rand) about overreaching government and the virtues of federalism can look themselves in the mirror after bringing the full power of the state to bear on the use of legal medications and a family dispute over one woman's life is just unfathomable.

The apocalyptic tone of Kathryn Lopez in NRO's The Corner, and their near total focus on the Schiavo case, is like watching a car wreck. I think I'll go read something by Ward Churchill to cheer myself up.