I agree it is over. But, I wonder if it is not the power of the Scientologists and the euthanasia movement in Florida that has its hooks all through the government.
Think about it - Florida is a retirement state and a prime target for those that wish to absorb the assets of the weak. I have heard that maybe this is the tip of the iceberg in that the corruption involves property accumulation, Medicare fraud, on and on.
When a state with a powerful euthanasia interest has an end-of-life panel established by the legislators that allows it to recommend AND all recommendations are immediately input into law, one becomes suspicious. When this panel has euthanasists on it, and when there are connections back to the hospice that held Terri, one becomes suspicious.
When the county judge ignores a federal subpoena, thumbs his nose at the governor's efforts to save Terri and ignores a federal law asking only for a new look at the case, he felt pretty sure he would succeed or he was forced to act by powerful interests.
When the Florida supreme court upholds state murder, we find that the entire state is corrupt.
It needs to be cleaned out of all legislators (especially the ones voting no to helping Terri and the ones that installed an end-of-life power with legislative power without election).
Maybe Jeb Bush realized that the whole system is corrupt. Which is not a very good recommendation of his leadership ability.
Yes, I agree that this euthanasia movement has been very busy at work over the last 10 years getting laws written via the courts (starting with the Browning case)
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/flsupct/74174/op-74174.pdf
Look at who one of the Petitioners was (George Felos) - they wrote law here. Felos is a very determined man to see his vision come to life. I suspect that he has the backing of the Scientologists, and we know how powerful they are based on what happened to Lisa McPherson. They were able to murder a girl and get away with it completely.
When the Fl. legislature tried to pass Terris Law they called it unconstitutional. This is a complete power grab by the judiciary - and all the courts in this country were on the take. So my take is that the euthanasia movement has complete say in what goes on in the state of Fl. via the Browning case and now the Shiavo case - anything the Legislature tries to do at this point regarding turning back the clock on who can be killed in Fl. will not succeed because the Fl. Supreme court will declare it unconstitutional. So the time to act was before she died, Jeb would have had to of caused a constitutional crises and he was not willing to do so - because apparently he would rather lay down his sword and let the judiciary walk all over him. So I am sure he did so on good advice - in that it was probably a lost battle to start with. And I blame the public most of all. They were swayed by the media and unfortunately because the public was not outraged by what happened the Governor, and the Republicans in Congress were left standing without an army. So I don't expect that things will change, cause at the very heart of this issue is that the public appears to want George Felos and company to allow the state to kill them when they become disabled and can't speak for themselves. If you live in Fl. beware.