[Edmund Burke]

Jeb Bush is after all just a politician. He is more concerned with his own image and career that he is in an issue like this. He will do a lot of talking and posturing, but it is naive to expect anything else from him.

[Wallace T.]

Perhaps you're right. However, the evident impotence of Republican office holders on the state and Federal levels, plus the effect of the RINO brigade in Tallahassee, may well be disastrous for Jeb Bush's future plans, if he has any, and the electoral prospects for the GOP in 2006 and 2008. Ironically, Janet Reno's bold capture and repatriation of Elian Gonzales may have cost Al Gore the Presidential election in 2000. The timidity of the Bush brothers and the Republican leadership may cost the GOP several Congressional seats next year and the Presidency in 2008. The real winner of this situation may not be Michael Schiavo, but Hillary Clinton.

[ninenot]

Your cynicism may well be justified. At the same time, one wonders what our House and Senate committees will do to follow up on their subpoenas.

As of yesterday, Sensenbrenner's office told me 'there is no talk' in the House of enforcing their subpoena.

More Showmanship?

[MHGinTN]

"He will do a lot of talking and posturing, but it is naive to expect anything else from him." Your assessment has prove correct; the governor spouted platitudes regarding his authority but in the end took the CYA approach and begged the leftist courts for permission to do his sworn duty, and of course the judicial told him to shut up and sit down and he complied meekly with same.