From Digby's Blog:

Tom DeLay of Texas says:

"Mrs. Schiavo's life is not slipping away - it is being violently wrenched from her body in an act of medical terrorism... Mr. Schiavo's attorney's characterization of the premeditated starvation and dehydration of a helpless woman as 'her dying process' is as disturbing as it is unacceptable. What is happening to her is not compassion - it is homicide. She doesn't need to die, and as long as Terri Schiavo can breathe and her supporters can pray, we will not rest."

By now most people who read liberal blogs are aware that George W. Bush
 signed a law in Texas that expressly gave hospitals the right to remove
 life support if the patient could not pay and there was no hope of revival,
 regardless of the patient's family's wishes. It is called the Texas Futile
 Care Law. Under this law, a baby was removed from life support against his
 mother's wishes in Texas just this week. A 68 year old man was given a
 temporary reprieve by the Texas courts just yesterday.

 Those of us who read liberal blogs are also aware that Republicans have
 voted en masse to pull the plug (no pun intended) on medicaid funding that
 pays for the kind of care that someone like Terry Schiavo and many others
 who are not so severely brain damaged need all across this country.

 Those of us who read liberal blogs also understand that that the tort
 reform that is being contemplated by the Republican congress would preclude
 malpractice claims like that which has paid for Terry Schiavo's care thus
 far.

 Those of us who read liberal blogs are aware that the bankruptcy bill will
 make it even more difficult for families who suffer a catastrophic illness
 like Terry Schiavo's because they will not be able to declare chapter 7
 bankruptcy and get a fresh start when the gargantuan medical bills become
 overwhelming.

 And those of us who read liberal blogs also know that this grandstanding
 by the congress is a purely political move designed to appease the
 religious right and that the legal maneuverings being employed would be
 anathema to any true small government conservative.

 Those who don't read liberal blogs, on the other hand, are seeing a
 spectacle on television in which the news anchors repeatedly say that the
 congress is "stepping in to save Terry Schiavo" mimicking the unctuous
 words of Tom Delay as they grovel and leer at the family and nod
 sympathetically at the sanctimonious phonies who are using this issue for
 their political gain.

 This is why we cannot trust the mainstream media. Most people get their
 news from television. And television is presenting this issue as a round
 the clock one dimensional soap opera pitting the "family", the congress and
 the church against this woman's husband and the judicial system that
 upheld Terry Schiavo's right and explicit request that she be allowed to
 die if extraordinary means were required to keep her alive. The ghoulish
 infotainment industry is making a killing by acceding once again to trumped
 up right wing sensationalism.