A rare event for me, watching WingNutTV...because of the events of the weekend and the Federal Court hearing in the Schiavo case it was an interesting way to see the events unfold from the wingnutteriest POV. Of course there was no mention of the 1999 legislation that Preznit Gassed'n'Ready signed, the No Hospital Fund Left Behind Act, to ensure that hospitals could (and do) turn off life support for the Sun Hudson's of Texas. Of course they can't mention that before little Scotty gets to spin it.

So, what is SchindlerSpin? It's Pat Robertson's pet JD4Jeebus, Jay Sekulow saying this on a Newshour broadcast:

JAY SEKULOW: They have done it; not in the context of a life-and-death decision like this, but they have had special legislation. You heard about them; Professor Tribe just talked about them in the context of there's been legislation passed on economic issues that affect one company or a series of companies within a sphere.

Private laws: Affect an individual, family, or small group. Private laws are enacted to assist citizens that have been injured by government programs or who are appealing an executive agency ruling such as deportation. Private laws citations include the abbreviation, Pvt.L., the Congress number (e.g. 107), and the number of the law. For example: Pvt.L. 107-006.

The Wingnuts are trying to distort this by using words and phrases like Private Bills to conflate and confuse the meaning of the law. Base emotional appeals coupled with misleading rhetoric and (a fanatical devotion to the pope) are their best weapons.

We have to keep bringing the facts to bear, relentlessly until this issue is one that becomes a "good political issue" for us against the wingnuts. After all, how do they run for reelection on a platform of dismantaling the Constitution if we don't let them?