As I suspected, it's, once again, the GOP judges who are staking out the position that Terri Schiavo should be permitted to finally die with dignity.

Not only is the Florida judge a big ole Republican, but of the 3 appellate court judges deciding on this yesterday, the dissenter (i.e., agreed with the Religious Right) was a Clinton appointee, and the two judges who said it's time to let Terri go were a Bush and a Clinton apppointee.

But oh, it gets even better. When an emergency appeal is filed with the US Supreme Court, it's filed with one justice who gets to decide if they'll take up the case.

Well, last time the appeal was made to conservative Justice Kennedy, A REAGAN APPOINTEE, and rather than simply accept the appeal like a good Republican clone, he instead referred it to the entire court for THEM to decide. The entire court, the majority of which is Republican appointees, voted it down.

Let me reiterate that. A Reagan judge declined to take the appeal - i.