Get this — the same guy who’s pushing for government intervention today, allowed his own father to die in 1988.

DeLay’s Own Tragic Crossroads :
DeLay’s Own Tragic Crossroads

By Walter F. Roche Jr. and Sam Howe Verhovek, Times Staff Writers

CANYON LAKE, Texas — A family tragedy that unfolded in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal — without judges, emergency sessions of Congress or the debate raging outside Terri Schiavo’s Florida hospice.

The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak accident at his home. Among the family members keeping vigil at Brooke Army Medical Center was a grieving junior congressman — Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas).

More than 16 years ago, far from the political passions that have defined the Schiavo controversy, the DeLay family endured its own wrenching end-of-life crisis. The man in a coma, kept alive by intravenous lines and oxygen equipment, was DeLay’s father, Charles Ray DeLay.

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In 1988, however, there was no such fiery rhetoric as the congressman quietly joined the sad family consensus to let his father die.

Nice.

Now how can they still claim that this isn’t politically-motivated?