Good article. If anything good comes out of the Schiavo case, I hope it is the reining in of the judiciary so nothing like this happens again. However, like the author, I'm not optimistic.
BTW, I read in the Miami Herald that the Pinellas police told DCF they would physically prevent the team from entering unless DCF had the permission of Judge Greer. That's why Bush called them off - it's obvious that they were perfectly willing to start shooting (in fact, somebody at the hospice said there are sharpshooters posted on a nearby apartment building). So judges also control the police powers of the state. Truly, truly frightening.
I'll also bet that Jeb is too much of a p***y to exact a price from Pinellas County for making him look like a fool. If I were Governor and I got egg on my face from a pipsqueak judge in a third-tier county, they would get a nice toxic waste dump and would have to beg on bended knee for ANY discretionary state money.
But the Bushes, for whatever reason, never seem willing to make their political enemies pay the price. What would LBJ, Huey Long, or for that matter Clinton, have done?
If true, that hits at the heart of our present problem, that being allowing the judiciary to usurp rights not granted to them by the Constitution.
What the liberals/Democrats are doing is threatening, much like a small child, to cause such a disproportionate ruckus over some things, like the filibuster rule and this situation, in order to cow those of longer term vision and higher values, usually conservative Republicans, into inaction. This is tyranny by the unprincipled minority, pure and simple. (Same as the Rent-a Mob protests by the left.)
In Washington, the Republicans should act like the leaders they are and go ahead with their agenda. That is why they are the majority - the majority of people approve of their agenda.
In Florida, Jeb Bush should have assembled the State Police or the National Guard and lead them himself to remove Terri from that place. Call their bluff and there would have been no shooting.
Bullies are the same all over, whether little kids or great big adults, and the only way to handle them is to call their bluff.
Instead, in Washington and Florida, we let them tie us up in minutia and court procedures while we fret too long about how to do things right rather than just doing the right thing.