Like An Elephant in a China Shop

From Ryan Sager at Tech Central Station: What Steroids and Schiavo Have in Common. (Via InstaPundit) :

In coming years, political historians might look back and try to pinpoint the day or week or month that the Republican Party shed the last vestiges of its small-government philosophy. If and when they do, the week just past should make the short list. For it was in this last week that the Republican-controlled Congress made it clear that it sees no area of American life -- none too trivial and none too intimate -- that the federal government should not permeate with its power. ..

Small government? This entire ordeal is not too political is it? So much for individual privacy and dignity.