by Gary Legum
Apr 14 2015
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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.
Terri’s Catholic parents objected to the move and began fighting a furious legal campaign to seize guardianship from their son-in-law, Terri’s husband. Bush took up the cause with some of the most shameful actions engaged in by a sitting governor of any state in living memory, which, as our boyfriend Charlie Pierce has recounted at length, set off a series of demands and events far removed from the actual reality of what had actually happened to Terri Schiavo.
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.
Read more: http://wonkette.com/582775/jeb-bush-super-proud-of-that-time-he-tortured-terri-schiavo-for-life
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