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Jeb Bush: I'd love to help, but I can't
WorldNetDaily ^ | March 27, 2005 | WorldNetDaily.com

Posted on 03/28/2005 8:02:29 AM PST by FR_addict

Florida governor says he doesn't have power from Constitution to intervene

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the man said to be the last hope for Terri Schiavo, says he's powerless to help the brain-injured woman who has been without nourishment for more than nine full days.

"I cannot violate a court order," Bush told CNN following Easter church services. "I don't have powers from the United States Constitution or – for that matter from the Florida Constitution – that would allow me to intervene after a decision has been made."

To Terri's parents, Bush said, "I can't. I'd love to, but I can't."

Speaking to the media for the first time in three days, the governor added, "I'm sad that she's in the situation that she's in. I feel bad for her family. My heart goes out to the Schindlers and, for that matter, to [her husband] Michael," Bush said. "This has not been an easy thing for any, any member of the family. But most particularly for Terri Schiavo."

Meanwhile, protests have continued outside the hospice where Terri is being cared for. With security having been doubled, five people were taken into custody as pastors tried to bring Schiavo Easter communion.

A handful of people in wheelchairs got out of them and shouted, "We're not dead yet!" as they lay in the driveway.

Larry Klayman, founder of the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, said Bush has the power to grant her clemency, just as he would in a death-row case.

"We're asking the governor for a stay of execution on Easter Sunday, a day of mercy,'' Klayman said. "For Jeb Bush not to act would be a dereliction of his duty to the people of the state of Florida.''

Terri has been the subject of worldwide attention since Florida Judge George Greer ordered her feeding tube removed March 18, and courts have upheld his decision not to have the tube reinserted.

An attorney for Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, painted a grim picture of the situation on CBS' "Face the Nation."

"Terri is declining rapidly," Schindler attorney David Gibbs said. "We believe at this point she has passed where physically she would be able to recover."

But Randall Terry, a pro-life activist speaking for Terri's parents, called Gibbs' description "absolutely untrue."

George Felos, the attorney for Michael Schiavo says Terri's breathing has been regular, and her death does not appear imminent. He told reporters her remains would be cremated and buried in a family plot in Pennsylvania.


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To: Vicomte13

Thoughtful comments, of which I have no problem. I haven't considered you disengenous, at all. I do think its too late for TS. I hope that won't prohit us from coming back together for the 'course correction'.


341 posted on 03/28/2005 2:06:38 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: Mad Mammoth

Idle fun for idle minds, huh, disruptor?


342 posted on 03/28/2005 2:07:32 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: 68 grunt

Pogo, you has met the enemy and he is you.

By thy own words art thou condemned.

Looks good on you.


343 posted on 03/28/2005 2:11:07 PM PST by Mad Mammoth ("There you go again" - Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004)
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To: 68 grunt

Nice try but I was referring to affidavits offered long beofre 2003. But you're doing the best you can to play agitprop and call people zealots and liars. Keep going, you're showing a very nasty side of the pro-death cult.


344 posted on 03/28/2005 2:11:09 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: 68 grunt

Careful there ghoul, you're showing your great satisfaction in her judicial demise.


345 posted on 03/28/2005 2:15:37 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: 68 grunt

The course correction has got to be passing the nuclear option.

There isn't any legal question there.
That is purely an issue of will. If the GOP won't do it with 55 Senators, they're going to lose their pro-life credentials.

George Bush is in his final term.
The pro-lifers are never going to support Jeb Bush again unless he "comes to Jesus" in the 11th hour.
But the Republican Party is still the pro-life party.
If they won't pass the nuclear option so that we can change the Judiciary that did this, the pro-lifers are not going to trust them.
McCain is finishing himself by waffling on the judges.

It's a calamity.


346 posted on 03/28/2005 2:16:25 PM PST by Vicomte13 (Tibikak ishkwata!)
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To: MHGinTN
... offered long beofre 2003 ...

And the courts finding these without merit? Oh yeah, its a conspiricy, Felos runs the hospice and bribes the judge, now I remember.

Hey, it isn't me! As an example, it started last Friday, Bill Handel on KFI calling the Schindlers liars and frauds. He gave them a pass as they were trying to protect their loved one, but his vitriol got worse and soon all the religious right was referred to similarly. This morning it was even more offensive. Now I'm not a Handel fan, its on that station for Limbaugh, but this clown is using Schindler ridicule on us all. Granted, this is lalaland, but still and regardless, all those affidavits are without merit. Why? I think because each had a connection with Christianity.

347 posted on 03/28/2005 2:22:07 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: MHGinTN
Careful there ghoul, you're showing your great satisfaction in her judicial demise.

I suspect it may be a few minutes before the Grunt returns, he's probably off cherry-picking my previous posts in a most-predictable 'tit-for-tat' response.

You are correct of course, it certainly appears that the Grunt is taking great pleasure at the impending death of Terri Schiavo.
348 posted on 03/28/2005 2:22:44 PM PST by Mad Mammoth
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To: Mad Mammoth
... By thy own words art thou condemned.

You sure are prolific at passing judgement. Good thing you have nothing to do with the legal profession or we'd all be in deep dodo.

349 posted on 03/28/2005 2:26:34 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: Vicomte13

Dear Vicomte13,

I think you badly underestimate the problem.

The problem isn't that we can't get enough conservative judges appointed.

The problem is that individuals who are trained as lawyers and become successful enough to be considered as judges, whether they are of the left or right, have come to accept the doctrine of judicial supremacy.

Thus, you have an appeals court with a majority-Republican appointees upholding the illegal acts of the murderer greer.

Thus you have a Supreme Court with six, count 'em, six Republican appointees, including the turncoat Anthony Kennedy, mush-for-brains David Souter, and never-met-a-fence-she-didn't-like-to-be-aroused-by Sandra Day O'Connor.

Judges, by and large, are the problem. Judges, by and large, whether starting out as Republicans or Democrats, believe that rule by judges is the natural order of things.

Justice Scalia, who explicitly declaims against judicial supremacy, is seen by most as a right-wing kook.

The executive needs to assert the equal prerogative of interpreting the Constitution against the judiciary.

The failure here is not of not getting enough Republican judges through the Senate. It's of two men who refuse to do that which is within their power, as you yourself have stated before.

As judges worship the idol of precedent, the Bush brothers have made matters only worse by initially challenging the judiciary, and then backing down when it illegally usurped their constitutional authority. Now, the precedent-worshipping black-robed tyrants will remind everyone that the Bush boys bowed to judicial supremacy, themselves.

It's later than you think.


sitetest


350 posted on 03/28/2005 2:26:45 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: Mad Mammoth
... You are correct of course, it certainly appears that the Grunt is taking great pleasure at the impending death of Terri Schiavo.

I suppose its futile to assure you of the inaccuracy in your determination. You are still attempting disruption.

351 posted on 03/28/2005 2:29:11 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: Vicomte13
The course correction has got to be passing the nuclear option. ...

Absolute agreement!

352 posted on 03/28/2005 2:30:42 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: 68 grunt

Not courts, agitprop, Greer's court ... and every florida court since has rubber stamped his rulings, including the federal crapping of Whittemore when he refused to do a de novo before Terri be executed by judge Greer. Your turn, agitprop.


353 posted on 03/28/2005 2:31:07 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: 68 grunt
... You are correct of course, it certainly appears that the Grunt is taking great pleasure at the impending death of Terri Schiavo.
I suppose its futile to assure you of the inaccuracy in your determination. You are still attempting disruption.


Yeah, wah-wah. Anything you don't like is 'being disruptive'. As for your attitude regarding Terri Schiavo?

-Posted by 68 grunt to Pravious
-On General/Chat 03/28/2005 11:14:39 AM PST · 254 of 332
-... that starving someone to death ...
-Ah, dehydration'll get her first.

-Posted by 68 grunt to workerbee
-On General/Chat 03/28/2005 10:51:06 AM PST · 225 of 332
-After 10 days, doesn't it seem quite obvious she is not being -allowed to pass, but forced to?
-Tell you what, put a nice big steak in front of her and let
-her eat all she wants. Sheesh


You were saying?
354 posted on 03/28/2005 2:36:49 PM PST by Mad Mammoth (Every Marine I ever knew had unlimited respect for human life. Except for this one guy...)
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To: MHGinTN
Am I supposed to call you names in return?

Hey, face it, your side lost in court. In every court that heard it. So what do you call someone who whines because they're a loser?

355 posted on 03/28/2005 2:37:00 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: 68 grunt
Hey, face it, your side lost in court. In every court that heard it. So what do you call someone who whines because they're a loser?
'68 Grunt'?
356 posted on 03/28/2005 2:38:39 PM PST by Mad Mammoth (Every Marine I ever knew had unlimited respect for human life. Except for this one guy...)
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To: Mad Mammoth
... You were saying?

I was saying that you are a disruptor. My insults are attempts to discredit seeming fools, not the group body of FR.

357 posted on 03/28/2005 2:39:15 PM PST by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: Mad Mammoth; 68 grunt
The poster is likely taking great pleasure in salting wounded hearts sad over the execution of Terri Schiavo, more than taking pleasure in Terri's death. The poster obviously believes judicial demise that results in execution of Terri is justified as 'the rule of law', and therein is the cowardice of such people, hiding behind 'rule of law' to get their agenda directing the nation. The pro-abortion on demand folks have been using that tactic for decades now. The cannibals desiring embryo aged humans be dissected for their body parts will use the same smokescreen when they can. They will first insist on dehumanizing the embryo aged humans, then insist that to not cannibalize them is to be a zealot or religious fanatic. The poster has used that very tactic on this thread in his game of agitprop.
358 posted on 03/28/2005 2:40:39 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: 68 grunt
I was saying that you are a disruptor. My insults are attempts to discredit seeming fools

Isn't it time you tried to rid yourself of a masochistic streak like that?
359 posted on 03/28/2005 2:40:50 PM PST by Mad Mammoth (Every Marine I ever knew had unlimited respect for human life. Except for this one guy...)
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To: sitetest
It's later than you think.

Very well put, and sadly all too true. Just look at how many conservatives don't see the real issue in play here. It's not a slam on anybody, it's just that people have bowed down to these black robed tyrants for so long, they can't imagine that it's supposed to be any different. Republican appointed judges are NOT doing any better than the Democrat appointed judges in this regard. Neither side will give up their perceived power.

People think that removing the Ten Commandments (hiding the fact that all of our laws are derived from moral authority) will have no impact. We are just now seeing what impact a lack of moral underpinnings will do to our legal system. If a law is immoral, it MUST be disobeyed. It is utter crapola written on a sheet of paper if it has no moral underpinnings. And trust me, I'm far from being a "zealot", but I do have eyes, and I do have ears.

360 posted on 03/28/2005 2:41:45 PM PST by badbass
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