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"And it was wrong, and we still hate her for it.
We should hate either Bush just as much if they flaunted the law so brazenly."

I TOTALLY disagree. The Florida constitution states in Article I, Section 2, that "[a]ll natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law, and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life ... ." According to the Constitution, "no person shall be deprived of any right [including the right to enjoy life] because of ... physical disability."

The governor has the supreme executive power and the constitutional duty, stated in Article 4, Section 1, to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed," – and he took an oath of office stating the same. He is SWORN to uphold uphold the constitution, and IS OBLIGATED to safeguard our constitutional guarantee of the "inalienable right ... to enjoy and defend life," regardless of physical disability.

Jeb Bush MAY NOT disregard that obligation, even if a member of the judiciary has ordered otherwise. He is NOT bound by a court order that is AT ODDS WITH A CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE!! What part of that are people NOT getting?????

Thomas Jefferson said, "[T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy." Maybe some of us should look up what those words mean??

Abraham Lincoln had the backbone to disregard the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. It wasn’t EASY but it WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!!!

Jeb Bush has to choose between the clear mandate of Florida's constitution and a judiciary which, in this case, IS RUNNING AMOK and has acted in defiance of that state supreme law.

A rogue judge CANNOT tell a governor he can't obey the law. Florida’s law ALLOWS the DCF to intervene. Even by asking whether or not a judge can or should be defied shows our ignorance of our own laws and we end up playing into the hands of judicial tyrants such as Greer. By the way, ARE YOU AWARE that one of Greer’s last rulings resulted in a woman being stabbed to death by her husband because he REFUSED to grant a protective order?

Rogue judges are NOT a law unto themselves – even though they (and some uninformed people) think they are. Jeb Bush is the last hope in this matter... barring a miracle of some type.

I must admit that I've wondered what all these people who are just licking their chops over Terri's death would do if God reached down and touched her and COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY restored her and she got up with all of her senses and memory intact. What would they do then? Shoot her because Greer said she's supposed to die? This is how ridiculous and preposterous this has become.

If Jeb Bush is afraid to do his duty, I do not believe that he will hold another term in office. I think God will raise someone else up who will take the hard right over the easy wrong.