I think it wasn't clear until then, that the GOP Congress would do anything to try to help Terri. And Rush doesn't seem to be proactive in urging the GOP to take a particular course of action. Instead, he comes in and defends their decisions after they've been made. so, when Congress took action to help Terri, that seemed to be the signal for Rush to start talking about Terri.
I can't figure out any other explanation for his relative silence on the issue before that Friday. He's certainly been good, once he starte on it, though. (Although is he now focused - like Hugh Hewitt - on defending the Bushes for not calling out Judge Greer? I usually can't listen to Rush (at work), so I'm not up on what his current emphasis is)
Let me fill you in. Rush has stood way tall for Terri - all last week, and two days this week. He has educated a whole lot of folks.
Sorry Mark, you don't stand by and watch while someone is STARVED and DEHYDRATED to DEATH!!!
He requires nothing more of the president or the governor.
He is unstinting in his repeated reference to Felos as "creepy".
He has little to say of Michael, nor of Greer.
His main target is the left which is eager to kill Terri and sees a Republican loss due to perceived congressional "overreaching".
He defended Delay against charges of hypocrisy, and deconstructed attacks from the Los Angeles Times and New York Times on the Schindlers, Delay et al.
He indicates Democrats are divided on this and points up Bill Nelson and Kent Conrad support reinsertion of the feeding tube--in Terri and in themselves for another six years in the Senate.
He cites them as prime examples of Democrats perceiving the true national sentiment is not as their skewed polls suggest.