Terri Schiavo is gone, said Dana Milbank in The Washington Post. But the political fallout unleashed by the death of the brain-damaged Florida woman will be with us for a long time. Schiavo died last week, 15 years after a heart attack left her a mental vegetable, and 13 days after the courts allowed her husband to disconnect her feeding tube. Republicans who tried and failed to stop him have already made Terri a martyr. By inspiring
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