Terry Schiavo Revisited

Have you noticed that the Bushies hate activist judges except when they rule bullshit in their favor?

After more wrangling, a judge has issued a stay of three weeks in the case of Terry Schiavo - ironically on the 15th anniversary of the day her own binging-and-splurging behavior let her to suffer that heart attack that killed her brain - before her feeding tube can be disconnected. To be fair, the judge did say he's uncomfortable with issuing lots of further actions in this case where court after court has weighed in. Schiavo's parents once again vow to take this to the Supreme Court, but it's already been there.

It's time, sadly, for people to let go of her, although I would certainly like to see her be able to pass in a more humane way than slowly starving to death. Sadly, too, I think that if Schiavo's parents actually had to care for her themselves or pay for her care, they would not be doing this. But as long as the responsibility is on Schiavo's husband whom they hate, they'll do everything to keep Terry alive when her brain really is not.

It's also sadly ironic that Florida, with a VERY bad track record of taking care of living children placed in its custody, has fought so hard and spent so much on this one case so Jeb Bush can prove his creds as a fighter of life. But like his brother, Jeb is only interested in fighting for the lives of those not yet born or those no longer fully alive; he has no problem permitting executions, trying to take the right to choose away from pregnant women, or watching kids get lost and killed in his hopefully flawed child welfare system. He also has no big issue with measures that restrict how much money can go to feed and care for poor children still in their parents' custody. Like a lot of the far right nutwing, people less than alive matter more than those fully alive.