Work a Morning, Save a Life

Thanks to Ace of Spades for this link to the National Review post that explains current legislation involving the Terri Schiavo situation. According to the article:

The Republican controlled House passed a bill on Wednesday night that would have saved Terri Schiavo's life. But the Republican controlled Senate wouldn't pass it. The Republican controlled Senate instead passed its own narrower bill at 5:35 pm tonight, but it couldn't become a law because, 75 minutes earlier, the Republican controlled House decided, without waiting for the Senate vote, to adjourn for its vacation for Easter.

If this is the case, why bother with all the machinations of passing a bill? As Ace of Spades notes,

Does this feel like a fix to anyone else? Like conservative Congressmen maybe wanted to appear to be "trying to do something," and yet, awww shucks, they just couldn't act in time?

Oh well - at least they had time to talk to their favorite baseball players yesterday.

*Update*
Red State has the following commentary - amen to that:

A woman is in the hospital unable to communicate. Her husband has a girlfriend and, when the woman dies, the husband stands to get lots and lots of money. The feminists should be howling, but they are silent. Were Terry Schiavo one of them, instead of a devout Catholic whose life is championed by conservatives, they probably would.