I can accept the rationale of avoiding a potential armed confrontation and possible impeachment for violating a court order, but I do not agree that JB "has done a fine job". An innocent, young disabled woman is being deliberately starved to death under his watch -- hardly a hallmark of executive proficiency.
If the local police were on orders -- from the judge? -- to shoot state authorities, doesn't that amount to an insurrection? Where does the judge get that authority? Why would Jeb, without any public complaint, let a judge usurp such power and threat to have state officers shot?
This looks to me like a mini-rebellion. And Jeb looks like a wimp -- and more than a wimp, a chief executive who surrendered powers to a member of another branch, and thereby subverted the constitution and separation of powers.
>I do not agree that JB "has done a fine job". An innocent, young disabled woman is being deliberately starved to death under his watch -- hardly a hallmark of executive proficiency.<
Specifically, what is it that the brothers Bush should have done from their respective perspectives?
A lot of folks tell the President and the Florida governor to "step up." The posters never give any suggestions.
What, short of a shootout that apparently would have happened at the hospice had the governor acted with armed force, should they have done differently during the last several weeks?
-George