Posted on 10/17/2003 9:20:22 AM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Thursday that his legal team has been unable to find a basis for him to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, who is expected to starve to death as soon as this weekend after her feeding tube was removed at the direction of her husband yesterday. "The legal office has been talking to people trying to find some strategy where my office can intervene in a different fashion that will yield a different result," Bush said Thursday. "So far we have not found that option." Gov. Bush's comments came before Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, met with him privately to present a letter from Florida's Thomas More Law Center citing a legal basis for the state to intervene to stop what one attorney described as "the execution of Terri Schiavo." "We're waiting to hear from Gov. Bush" on the Thomas More letter, Mr. Schindler told national talk radio host Sean Hannity Thursday afternoon. Schindler said Gov. Bush's response is "probably is our last hope." By Friday morning, Bush's office gave no hint that he had reached a decision. Thursday night Mr. Schindler told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" that his daughter could die as early as this weekend if medical staff begin administering morphine to counter the pain of her starvation. The Republican governor's caution over the legal technicalities of the case stands in marked contrast to the actions of Democrats, who often take a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later approach when an issue of importance hangs in the balance. In April 2000, for instance, the Clinton administration didn't let the law interfere with its plan to return 6-year-old boat boy Elian Gonzalez to Castro's Cuba. Instead of waiting for Gonzalez's legal case to play out in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Attorney General Janet Reno executed White House plans to have the boy kidnapped from the home of his Miami relatives at machine gunpoint. Normally Clinton-friendly legal powerhouse attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Lawrence Tribe were horrified, publicly condemning the raid as unconstitutional. Gov. Bush reaction? He called the action "unconscionable" but showed no interest in pursuing legal sanctions against the White House. When Republicans in Congress called for a congressional investigation into the Clinton administration's abuse of power in the Elian case, top aides to then-presidential candidate George Bush derailed the idea. "A top Republican Party official told The Daily News that Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh informed Senate Republicans on Thursday that the candidate wanted the hearings scrapped because the issue is a political loser," reported the New York paper a week after the raid. As it turned out, voter backlash over the Elian raid among Florida's Cuban-American community gave President Bush his razor thin margin of victory in the 2000 election.
Again, you lie. You have a bad habit of doing this.
Notice his brother has said nothing either. All you boomers better be wary of going to the hospital. Cheapest health care is none.
Yep and his inaction tells me a lot.
That is the first comic relief I have had today. You just reminded me of the movie Cool Hand Luke "I got my mind right boss" =)
It seems that I am doing just fine today.
How's yourself?
BTW, I suggest that some of you do a bit of introspective criticism of your behavior. This is not healthy.
If he is in violation of the law, who is going to prosecute him?
A brief is a formal outline that sets forth the main contentions along with supporting statements and evidence. It seems to me that briefs are therefore merely opinions or, in some cases, snug undershorts.
You've been bad-mouthing GW for two years.
Why should anybody listen to you?
Yes, but don't the stink of libertarianism bother you. State sanctioned murder for profit. There is no other reasonable explanation.
Only when he is wrong, however that is getting to be a habit with him. I voted for him, so I get to complain.
Besides Sink, I get to rattle your box, like I did when I killed your vote for Arnie.
What exactly is it that you think George W. Bush can do about this situation?
Uhh...as far as I know, euthanasia is still illegal, and thank the Lord for that! Another never-to-be-sufficiently-damned stupid idea foisted upon us from socialist Europe.
Look, I'm sure that you're a great person and generally have a good head on your shoulders, but this is WRONG. Just like abortion, this is a way that these death-worshipers will use to get rid of what they consider unwanted people. This is already happening in places like the Netherlands, and if we ever get hit with socialized medicine, heaven forbid, look for our government to begin compassionately euthanising the old and sick in the name of you and me...to save money for the children, of course. It should also be noted that the definition of "unwanted" is naturally flexible, and tends to grow to include wider and wider circles of people over time.
We are endowed by our Creator with certain inaliable rights including life, liberty, and the pusuit of happiness. Men, however, have no right to death. Especially when they are not taking their own lives, but that of another living human being.
That is a universal truth, one worth fighting for.
This should have never have gone to the courts, but now that it has, it should stand.
BTW, drug overdoses are administered to patients in the country every day at the families request. I suppose it is the known dirty little secret.
The starvation thing is too morbid however. I do not like that, but as you say, to do otherwise is illegal since the court is now involved it must be done legally.
Ya, it sucks, and sure, I am a nice compassionate guy. You can ask Mrs. wirestripper about that. But I do not get carried away with emotion. There is a proper place for that.
Hmmmmm......Then I take it that you are against the death penalty.
I am.
As head of the state police, he can direct the cops to intervene in a murder-in-progress!!!
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