For those of you not quite nerdy enough to be glued to the Schiavo debate, you should know that Barney Frank is all of our heroes. He keeps on hammering home the two crucial balance of power points: this bill would not only grant the federal government unconstitutional power over the state, but the legislature unconstitutional power over the judiciary. The issue of competency is also key -- the Congress is just not equipped to investigate the facts of the situation as the Florida courts are, especially after years of careful legal work in that state.