A little over 3 hours of debate in the US House of Representatives has just concluded. I've been listening to it on C-SPAN radio. The opponents had much stronger arguments, IMHO. But the tone has been as if it was a foregone conclusion that the bill that passed the Senate today by voice vote would pass the House after midnight.

I was surprised by how poorly many of the advocates presented their case. Many seemed to read exactly the same script. Many attacked the Florida courts and Michael Schiavo in the most crude and unseemly way. Many repeatedly mistated the facts in the case. It was pathetic, IMHO.

Stenny Hoyer gave a good ending speech for the opponents.

Tom DeLay gave a short emotional speech that didn't address the legislation, and the roll-call vote has just started.

We'll see what happens...

Cheers,
Scott.