Jeb Bush Super Proud Of That Time He Tortured Terri Schiavo, For ‘Life’

[KamaAina]

http://wonkette.com/582775/jeb-bush-super-proud-of-that-time-he-tortured-terri-schiavo-for-life

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who is actually a sack of flour dumped into poorly tailored suits, is out on the campaign trail pandering to the religious right like a good Republican candidate for president. Yesterday he sat down for a radio interview with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, to brag about his actions defending life, such as the time he told his brother George W. Bush not to invade Iraq and maim and kill hundreds of thousands of people for absolutely no reason.

Ha ha, kidding! Jeb actually bragged about his meddling from the governor’s mansion in the case of Terri Schiavo, the poor Florida woman who fell into a vegetative state after collapsing from unexplained reasons in 1990. Thirteen years later, after watching her languish in hospice in a state of living death for over a decade, her husband and legal guardian, Michael, decided to remove her feeding tube, allowing her the dignity of peacefully dying over the indignity of “living” for another 40 years as basically just a bunch of involuntary nervous system functions being turned occasionally to avoid bed sores....

As it happens, Politico recently published a terrific piece – wait, Politico did that? Huh – recounting the Schiavo case, which in addition to giving Terri’s husband Michael a chance to bite another large hunk of meat out of Jeb’s sanctimonious ass, reminds us what a hypocritical toadie Jeb can be. For example, Politico points out that Jeb once wrote in an essay that he believed in the need for “passing moral judgments,” which seems to conflict with his telling Jim Daly that

I tried to persuade people first. I don’t think being judgmental and coming down from the podium and telling them how it’s going to be is the proper approach.

Ha ha, that’s a good one from this ten-pound bag of Gold Medal that is running for president! Jeb sure did a great job of “persuading” people in the Schiavo case, when he had his staff write up a law giving him the one-time authority to order Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube reinserted after a judge had ruled it could be removed as per the wishes of her husband, who was her legal guardian. Because screw the law or respect for a family’s privacy or separation of powers, Jeb’s faith told him it was the right thing to do and Florida is a well-known Catholic theocracy.

"this ten-pound bag of Gold Medal that is running for president"!

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Let me understand, the party that HATES government, the party that HATES regulation

the party that HATES it whenever government sticks their nose into ANYTHING

created a SPECIAL LAW just to interfere with a family's decision about life and death?


I cant use the word hypocrisy, just doesnt cover it

[Kelvin Mace]

2. And we had a few of them here at DU

who argued that we were "murdering" Ms. Schiavo. Had a LONG thread with one who kept claiming that spontaneous neurogenesis was possible in humans.

[malaise]

3. More than that - this governor promised his brother Florida

then they (and the Supremes) stole Florida in 2000 don't forget it was one time only for the Supremes as well - and then he has this special law to force a dead woman to remain on a machine rather than let her legal guardian decide.

That ReTHUG scumbag and ten pound bag of flour should be allowed nowhere near the WH.

And do not forget that he shared out people's pension's among his brother's donor firms.
If it isn't fascism yet, it will be if he ever makes it to the WH.