Shiavo comment

Not to dig up a very well covered topic, but the memo sent to Republicans that I mentioned in myTerry Shiavo blog is a bit sketchy. Apparently its origins are unknown, as discussed in this Washington Post Washington post article by Howard Kurtz:

While there is no hard evidence that the memo is fake, there are several strange things about it, including the basic fact that no one seems to know who wrote it and that the noncontroversial part of it is lifted from a Republican senator's press release.

ABC and The Post say their reports on the Schiavo memo were accurate and carefully worded. The document caused a stir because it described the Schiavo controversy as "a great political issue" that would excite "the pro-life base" and be "a tough issue for Democrats," singling out Florida's Sen. Bill Nelson. Two days after the memo was reported, the Republican-controlled Congress approved a bill, signed by Bush, to transfer jurisdiction of Schiavo's case from Florida courts to the federal judiciary in an effort to restore the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube.

Please read the article for more details, but in the interests of fairness I wanted to mention the uncertainty.