Posted on 03/06/2015 7:39:49 AM PST by wagglebee
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I remember Jeb Bush was for keeping her alive until a pathetic little state judge ordered her death and he backed off like a scalded dog. If he had just sent two state troopers to the hospital to enforce insertion of the feeding tube he wouldn’t have to pander to illegal aliens for votes.
“fact, the left and the mainstream media are now using Terri’s case as a cudgel with which to damage the presidential chances of Republican Jeb Bush–who, as governor of Florida, sided strongly with the Schindlers.”
Yes, he did. A point in his favor.
But, he ultimately backed down when it came time to let her die or save her.
It could have turned in to a shooting war of some kind with two different law enforcement agencies each with opposite orders.
Not strongly enough. He was a wimp. I watched the situation very closely and Jebbie could have saved her. He could have said screw everyone and pulled that woman out of her death spiral.
Jebbie is the kind of guy who while walking around a lake sees two young kids drowning in 4 feet of water near the edge of the lake. He is standing mere feet from the waters edge and could step in and save them. But he does not. Why? Because he sees a sign that says "Swimming Against the Law".
I am outraged that this spineless pu$$y is not being laughed out of any election for any office. Let's not forget that besides his cowardice he like the entire rest of his family are parasites sucking at the host of government and ALL have had their hands in the taxpayers pockets. Almost all the Bush family and the Walker family for that matter think that any local, state and federal treasury is their own piggy bank. Beside that they trade their name and connection to get themselves on boards of companies and acquire stock in such companies. Someone out to count the pump and dump deals they have enriched themselves on. It is a great deal if you can get it. I say enough of these slugs!
——He could have said screw everyone and pulled that woman out of her death spiral.——
now now, there is no evidence that is true.
He could have allowed her to hooked to life support for years and years, but not pull her from a death spiral
Until the second meaningful action was required. Way to go, Jebbie.
Jeb was constitutionally obligated to save Terri, he had the authority and power to save Terri and he let her die. That makes him complicit.
Jeb played with Terri’s life, for political gain. He only spoke up on her behalf when he perceived a political advantage in doing so. When the skewed polls came out, claiming (falsely) that the majority of likely voters supported torturing her to death, he reneged on his promise, and allowed for her to be murdered. If he had known that most people are opposed to torturing people to death for being severely and/or cognitively disabled, he would have kept his promise and done his job. Right or wrong had no bearing on his choices. If he has any regret about his choice to stand back and watch her being tortured to death, it’s only that it cost him some votes. He doesn’t care what it cost Terri, her family, or the countless victims who have been Schiavoed, thanks in part to him.
Have you given up food for Lent?
NEVER NEVER NEVER! Jebbie does not have a snowball’s chance in hell. When it mattered, Jebbie ran.
Whether willfully or through ignorance you are totally and completely WRONG in this statement.
Terri WAS NOT on "life support," in fact, she received no medical care at all for YEARS (she was not even given antibiotics for a urinary tract infection). Terri was subsisting on nutrition and hydration, something that ALL people need.
As for a "death spiral," we are ALL in a sort of "death spiral" from the moment we are born, it is inevitable - we can do things to postpone death, but we cannot avoid it. Terri's life expectancy BY ALL ACCOUNTS (even her murderers) was that she would live another thirty or so years with her injuries.
She was not hooked to any machines. She was able to breathe on her own and swallow her own saliva.
I always thought, they claim she would choke to death if she ate so they won’t feed her and instead let her die.
Makes no sense.
There was no life support. And no death spiral. You must be confused.
It seems like just yesterday, sometimes.
I have to wonder, is that support based on the actual facts in the case, or on the construct the media tried to build around it? As I recall, the media consistently referred to her as "brain dead" (she wasn't), or as "dying" (she wasn't), or otherwise tried to make it sound like some semblance of life was being artificially maintained in what was essentially a corpse.
Terri was impaired, not dead.
I wonder if the public would be so supportive of the fatal outcome if the actual facts of the case were widely known, instead of the narrative the media put out?
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