it's about politics, to libs.
and, instead exerting my executive authority as the governor, I sat back and let her be killed.
Yeah, so much life that he let her be murdered. There were things that he and the RINOs in Congress could have done and they didn't.
This guy is pathetically lame. Just STHU already, Jeb. Your hands are turning pruney.
A disabled woman is ordered to be put to death, and he respects it. Jeb's middle-of-the-road. Complete with yellow streak.
And it increases the chances that insurance companies will get a green light to charge more or less depending on the nature of those living wills.
It increases the chances that "parts farming" will become more accepted.
It increases the chances that doctors will take less heroic measures and give up far sooner.
It increases the chances that judges and lawyers will start parsing the words of wills and finding more death in them than life.
Jeb Bush proves that no good deed goes unpunished.
the left is portraying him as a tool of the far right, and the far right is portraying him as Pontius Pilot
As this trying period ends we can find comfort in knowing Terri is now in a better place.
Note to Jeb, We have not forgotten, nor will we. This trying period isn't over yet. Impeach George Greer!
As this trying period ends we can find comfort in knowing Terri is now in a better place.
Note to Jeb, We have not forgotten, nor will we. This trying period isn't over yet. Impeach George Greer!
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People have no idea how much the Governor's staff worked on the case. It was easy to condemn but his staff really did work very hard behind the scenes.
In response to a request, this memorandum is submitted addressing whether the governor of the State of Florida has the constitutional power to stop a Florida court order conferring upon the husband of Terri Schindler-Schiavo the sole discretionary power to disconnect his brain-disabled wifes feeding tube.Not only does the governor have such power, but the governor has a constitutional duty to prevent any action taken pursuant to such a court order, because such action would violate Ms. Schindler-Shiavos constitutionally guaranteed inalienable right to enjoy and defend life regardless of her physical disability as secured by Article I, Section 2 of the Florida State Constitution.
According to Article I, Section 2, [a]ll natural persons, female and male alike, are equal before the law, and have inalienable rights, among which are the right to enjoy and defend life .... Additionally, Article I, Section 2 provides that no person shall be deprived of any right [including the right to enjoy life] because of ... physical disability.
According to Article IV, Section 1, the supreme executive power of the state of Florida is vested in the governor ... who shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Thus, the governor has the power, indeed the duty, to ensure that this constitutional guarantee of the inalienable right ... to enjoy and defend life, regardless of physical disability, is preserved.
In the exercise of this his take care powers, the governor is not bound by a court order, such as the one in the Schindler-Schiavo case, when that court order is inconsistent with the actual constitutional guarantee. As President Andrew Jackson once observed, judicial precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power. This observation is especially significant in determining the scope of the constitutional powers of the office of governor, a separate and independent branch from the judiciary.
Again, as President Jackson put it, the chief executive officer of a government is bound by his oath of office to decide matters of constitutional right and power according to the executives interpretation of the constitution, not according to the judiciarys interpretation. Therefore, if the governor believes that Ms. Schindler-Schiavo has the constitutional right to enjoy life regardless of her present disability, as he has stated in filings submitted to the courts, then the governor is duty bound to stop any action taken pursuant to that unconstitutional order that would result in the deprivation of Ms. Schindler-Shiavos constitutional right to life.
Such executive intervention into the judicial processes does not violate the separation of powers. To the contrary, as Alexander Hamilton stated in Federalist No. 78, the exercise of judicial power is subject to the check and balance of the executive branch which, alone, has the power to enforce a judicial order. Thus, if a court order is contrary to the law of the inalienable right to life as the order in the Schindler-Schiavo case surely is then according to Article IV, Section 1 of the Florida Constitution, the governor, vested with the supreme executive power, should intervene to stop any action taken pursuant to that court order.
After all, as the great English legal authority Sir William Blackstone stated a court opinion or order and the law are not the same thing, in that a court opinion or order may be contrary to law, and therefore, not law at all. I W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 71 (Univ. Chi. Facs. Ed: 1765).
If the governor allows a court order granting discretion to one person to decide for another person whether the latter person lives or dies to go unchallenged, then he would fail to take care that the law of the equal right to life, as secured by Article I, Section 2 of the Florida Constitution even for the physically "disabled, is faithfully executed.
Governor Bush’s contact information is as follows:
E-mail:
Governor Jeb Bush
jeb.bush@myflorida.com
Write:
PL 05 The Capitol
400 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
Telephone:
850/488-4441
Fax: 850/487-0801
The hell it wasn't. Schiavo was shoved around like a pawn by culture warriors on both sides of the aisle. That crazy husband of hers and his lawyer strutting around like a pair of self-righteous ministers, talking about her "right to die". Those sick idiots parading out front of a hospice for the dying, sending their kids forward with a cup of water to be arrested whenever the news media showed up with a camera. Jesse Jackson showing up at the last minute for his photo op.
Then there was that moronic memo that the Republicans put out. Ugh, the whole thing made me want to vomit.
Not political. Bah. Admit that it was enlightened self-interest, but don't lie to yourself and don't lie to me.