Posted on 04/17/2015 10:04:29 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Looking back 10 years later, Jeb Bush said Friday he would not have handled the Terri Schiavo saga any differently.
“I don’t think I would have changed anything,” the former Florida governor told a woman who asked him about the case at a “Politics and Eggs” event put on by Saint Anselm College’s Institute of Politics.
Bush, gearing up for his presidential campaign, has faced renewed scrutiny over his role in the prolonged controversy from 2003 to 2005, during which a brain-dead woman from the Tampa Bay area became the subject of a contentious legal fight between her parents and her husband over whether to keep her on life support. Bush sided with the parents, who wanted to maintain a feeding tube. Ultimately the husband – who remains deeply resentful of Bush – prevailed at the Supreme Court.
“I stayed within the Constitutional responsibilities or authority that I had,” Bush told the crowd of local business leaders. “We changed the law first, and a year later it was ruled unconstitutional. Then basically we didn’t have the ability to do anything. The federal government tried to intervene, and that was also ruled unconstitutional.”
“So she starved to death,” he went on, turning somber.
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Nonsense, they do it all the time. Governors DO have the authority to provide the support necessary to enforce Congressional subpoenas.
Governors DO have the authority to call out the state militia to enforce the peace.
Governors DO have the authority to call out the state militia to execute state law (Terri's law).
Probate judges (for that matter all judges) DO NOT have the authority to sentence a person to death without an indictment and trial by a jury of their peers.
Sometimes “The law is an ass”
Said of the application of the law that is contrary to common sense.
Origin
This proverbial expression is of English origin and the ass being referred to here is the English colloquial name for a donkey, not the American ‘ass’, which we will leave behind us at this point. Donkeys have a, somewhat unjustified, reputation for obstinate and stupidity that has given us the adjective ‘asinine’.
I know...Was being sarcastic;)
Terri’s Law, was ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
I’m not going to be a Jeb defender/promoter so I will drop the subject. I think there were far greater villains in this case and Jeb tried to be on the right side. My 2¢, worth nothing more.
I'm sorry she died. But to blame that on Jeb Bush is ludicrous.
Of course they do, when said courts defy the state or federal constitutions. Not only do they have the authority, they have the sworn duty.
And make no mistake, the murder of Terri Schiavo violated the explicit equal protection requirements of the U.S. and the Florida constitutions, in the worst possible way.
I take it you have never read the U.S. Constitution or the Florida constitution, both of which explicitly and imperatively REQUIRE equal protection for the right to life of every single individual person.
Jeb Bush swore a sacred oath to support and defend both of those constitutions. He did NOT swear an oath to obey some tinpot probate judge when that judge decides to order the torture murder of an innocent woman.
There is no moral equivalency between defying a judge who is crushing the constitution and ordering the torture murder of an innocent person and some leftist making it up as they go along.
The protection of the God-given, unalienable, individual right to life is the very raison d’etre of all human governments. There’s no gray area here.
Jerk needs to go back to screwing up the education system instead. He’s just annoying and proves once again that he’s a killer.
Yep, Jeb Bush will never ever ever get my vote. I will sit out before I vote for him.
She felt it. Ask her brother, Bobby. I believe him.
I was there for the history. I don’t give one damn about articles. People lie in articles all the time.
The history really was that Jeb backed down in the face of adversity, when the chips were down. He got nervous. He worried about his political future. He completely forgot about right vs wrong.
He can say what he wants, what eases his conscience. The fact of the matter is that an innocent handicapped woman was tortured to death under his watch, and anyone who tried to actually give her relief from her suffering was either arrested for doing the right thing, or threatened with arrest.
I’m still pretty mad about it.
I believe she did too.
We don’t know what certain states of the brain leave functioning and not functioning.
I’m not willing to make the assumption that oh someone is in a coma, they don’t feel or know anything, or in a vegetative state and they don’t feel or know anything or comprehend anything that’s going on around them or happening to them.
Furthermore, if there is a time when euthanasia is called for, with dogs at the end of their time with us for example, then the method of killing needs to be quick, as it is with dogs. It’s hard enough to put dogs down even knowing they go out almost immediately. Imagine having to euthanize your dog by depriving it of water until it does from dehydration...
If we do not treat our dogs this way, why on earth would we treat people this way? I cannot understand it, and I won’t understand it.
(Just want to say that I don’t think terry Schiavo should have been killed at all, I was just using the example of dogs to illustrate that I cannot understand what was done to her in any way, shape or form.)
I’m good with your response.
Ditto.
Jebbie for President is the ultimate “gift” of Ronald Reagan, who made all of the Bushes possible, along with Sandra Day O’Connor.
Thanks for the ping!
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