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Well, Jeb Bush is courting dereliction of something. Right now he's looking an awful lot like Jimmy Carter did after Operation Desert Helicopter Crash.

Jeb said he was going to move in with the DFC. Then he didn't. Then he did, but he didn't send enough force to get the job done. And then he said he'd done all he could.

In so doing, Jeb has royally hosed the Republican party, the conservative cause, and himself.

Once they got into it, the only way out of this for the GOP was to save Terri, and ultimately show the world that she was not "persistently" vegetative. Had she ever learned to talk again, even at the level of a child, it would have made all Americans stand back and review what the Hell went on there.

Instead the media is having a field day explaining to the public that the GOP caved in to the "Christian Right" and fouled up her devoted husband's plan to "allow" the brain-dead Terri Schiavo her "right to die."

Yeah, the court system failed miserably here, allowing horribly bad lawyering to result in an innocent woman's death through sheer devotion to "procedure."

But doing the right thing was within Jeb's grasp, and he blew it. And he took a lot of us with him.

"Jeb said he was going to move in with the DFC. Then he didn't. Then he did, but he didn't send enough force to get the job done. And then he said he'd done all he could."

I'm really stunned by your statement.

What is it about the rule of law that people don't understand. JEB COULDN'T - THERE WAS A COURT ORDER FROM JUDGE GREER STOPPING HIM. And .. I believe that the Gov was told that if he came there with marshals - against the COURT ORDER FROM JUDGE GREER - to try to get Terri - he would be stopped.

This damn county is so corrupt - they would allow their officers to be killed in a shootout - TO PROVE WHAT ..??

BEING THE "SUPREME AUTHORITY" OF THE STATE DOES NOT MEAN YOU GET TO SUBVERT THE LAWS OF THE STATE - quite the contrary - the Governor put his hand on a Bible and SWORE TO UPHOLD THE LAWS OF THE STATE.

Now .. here is Alan Keys saying the Gov has authority to subvert the laws of government agencies - that is just blatantly false.

Jeb didn't "blow it". Jeb did all the law would allow him to do.

Jeb said he was going to move in with the DFC. Then he didn't. Then he did, but he didn't send enough force to get the job done. And then he said he'd done all he could.

Exactly. If Jeb was a poker player, he folded with 4 kings in his hand.

And I guarantee you that the Pinellas police department didn't have a straight-flush. They had a pair of deuces and a good bluff.

If this thread is factually accurate, the Florida legislature was the main cause of this state-sponsored killing, by changing state law in 1999 to allow starvation of people diagnosed with PVS:
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