Posted on 04/17/2015 10:04:29 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Looking back 10 years later, Jeb Bush said Friday he would not have handled the Terri Schiavo saga any differently.
“I don’t think I would have changed anything,” the former Florida governor told a woman who asked him about the case at a “Politics and Eggs” event put on by Saint Anselm College’s Institute of Politics.
Bush, gearing up for his presidential campaign, has faced renewed scrutiny over his role in the prolonged controversy from 2003 to 2005, during which a brain-dead woman from the Tampa Bay area became the subject of a contentious legal fight between her parents and her husband over whether to keep her on life support. Bush sided with the parents, who wanted to maintain a feeding tube. Ultimately the husband – who remains deeply resentful of Bush – prevailed at the Supreme Court.
“I stayed within the Constitutional responsibilities or authority that I had,” Bush told the crowd of local business leaders. “We changed the law first, and a year later it was ruled unconstitutional. Then basically we didn’t have the ability to do anything. The federal government tried to intervene, and that was also ruled unconstitutional.”
“So she starved to death,” he went on, turning somber.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Buh bye, Jeb-hole.
Jeb is doing more than ignoring the right, he’s provoking it.
He must figure he’s garnish the Dems votes who don’t like Hillary.
Next thing he’ll be saying is he likes Loretta Lynch...
Keep it up JEB you are just keep on eliminating yourself from any grass roots support. This is Good!
Royal Jeb let Terry die of thirst as HE drank champagne.
I do not like this man. Period.
LOL!
Wait, which side is her running for?
She’s dead, Jeb, and she suffered greatly.
While I’m not a fan of Jeb Bush, I don’t understand the comments.
Jeb sided with the parents trying to keep her alive and with a feeding tube. He even signed off changing the law to help keep her alive.
The supreme court overturned Florida law and allowed the husband to starve her to death.
He is saying he would still fight the battle to keep her alive, even knowing they would lose. Am I missing something else?
Sum Ting Wong & Ho Li Fuke!!
Jebster: Who CARES what you teabaggers think!?
“Am I missing something else?”
Many believe he could have done more at the end, despite losing at every turn in the courts, like taking her into protective custody.
Good God, seriously, are we SURE he is exploring a run for the REPUBLICAN nomination? Because I am getting more and more convinced he is actually going to run against Hitlery for the Democratic nomination!
I’ll save one positive thing about Jeb, at least this RINO is honest about his true beliefs!
JEB = Proud RINO !
He wasn’t King of Florida. But he was certainly on her and her parent’s side. Michael Schiavo hates Jeb and has said he could have killed Terri sooner if it wasn’t for him.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/jeb-bush-terri-schiavo-114730_Page2.html#.VTFDHvnF98F
...on October 15, 2003, Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube came out. Judge’s orders. She would die within two weeks. This stage of the case looks in retrospect like the start of a test. Just how much power did Jeb Bush have?
HB 35E was filed after 8 at night on October 20. Many lawmakers already were gone for the day. Gelber, the state representative from Miami, put his suit back on at his apartment in Tallahassee and hustled back to the Capitol. Fellow Democrats gathered around as the attorney and former prosecutor began to read the bill one of Bush’s staff attorneys had helped to write....
But it passed in the House, and it passed in the Senate.
Bush signed it, and Chapter No. 2003-418, “Terri’s Law,” as it came to be known, was official less than 22 hours after it had been introduced. He then issued Executive Order 03-201. “The Florida Department of Law Enforcement shall serve a copy of this Executive Order upon the medical facility currently providing care for Theresa Schiavo,” it stated. A police-escorted ambulance whisked her from her hospice in Pinellas Park to a nearby hospital to have her feeding tube put back in....
It really seems that way. With every proclamation out of his mouth, he is sounding more like a Loony Lefty. But, I suppose that's what the GOP-e wants. They need him to kill off the Tea Party candidates and run against Shrillary. With that, they've gotten a win-win.
I figure Jeb is just running because he can raise 100+ million for the REAL (globalist scum) candidate, and when he bows out, he will give the REAL candidate all of his money.
This is the equivalent of a Democratic nominee saying:
A federal right to work law should be passed to bust the unions.
A constitutional amendment banning gay marriage should be passed.
We should build a border fence and send out US troops to forcefully remove the illegal aliens that are here.
We should immediately drill in Anwar
We should cut back social security and welfare benefits
and that we should cut taxes for the rich!
Seriously! that is how out of tune Jeb is as this point!
If it is any comfort to anyone, images of her brain showed that a lot was gone. I was paying attention because my husband was dying of Alzheimer’s. When still rational he had signed do-not-resuscitate and do-not-artificially-feed- with-tubes-or-IVs orders. He begged me not to let him die in a hospital. When he had his final collapse and I had gotten him back to bed, he was awake, but when I tried to feed him he wasn’t interested. He also choked when I tried to give him water. My son and I called VA. Two doctors had reviewed his Do Not Resuscitate orders two months earlier when I felt the end was approaching. After we explained the situation the doctor (one of the 2) said to feed him if he was interested, don’t if he was not. We tried again, but he did not open his mouth. He soon drifted into a coma/sleep and died 4 days later. A hospice nurse came each day and check on things. I was given a packet of care items including a vial of morphine with an eye dropper. I was told to give him some if he was in pain. I did not need to use it. She picked it up after he died.
I fail to understand why people with a strong religious feeling often seem so afraid of death. It is a natural process which we should learn how to face with courage. If we don’t, end of life hospital care will bankrupt our economy with so many elderly, and relatively fewer younger people to support them.
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