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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor people in the media who have called Jeb! a "class act," let's look back at Terri Schiavo.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/jeb-bush-and-dying-with-indignity-20160224?page=6And then I remember Terri Schiavo, whose living remains were tormented in my backyard for the same remorseless cameras Jeb stood in front of, with smiles dying on his lips. I remember Jeb having no standing to file a brief on behalf of her parents who refused to let their son-in-law pull the plug and filing one anyway. I remember "Terri's Law" shooting through the Florida house and senate and being signed right away, granting Jeb the unconstitutional power to ignore a court order. I remember his executive order that removed Terri Schiavo from the hospice in which her husband wanted to let her die and took her to a hospital and shoved a feeding tube back down her throat.
I remember the Florida Supreme Court ruling unanimously against Jeb Bush, and his running the case up to Washington to circumvent it first to the U.S. Supreme Court, then to the U.S. Congress. I remember the FDLE being readied to break into Terri Schiavo's room and "rescue" her from fake complaints of abuse.
And then I remember her death and her autopsy and details of a brain deadened to all sense and pain, and a governor who did not admit a scintilla of error or doubt or even moment's horrified self-recognition not even after warping the law and courts and constitutional governance he held so dear to allow the state to interfere so cruelly in the life of a single person.
I remember all that, and I realize that Donald Trump could have stripped Jeb Bush on the debate stage and beaten him with a rod, and it would not have been half so much as he deserved.
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For people in the media who have called Jeb! a "class act," let's look back at Terri Schiavo. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Feb 2016
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valerief
(53,235 posts)1. That's right. He's just another asswipe Republican, nothing more. nt
JCMach1
(27,559 posts)2. JEBtm is a POS from wayyyyyy back... you are correct!
Hekate
(90,714 posts)3. I remember how he rigged the Florida recount and helped engineer a coup d'etat in the US
He just looks like a harmless dweeb. But in reality he is a full fledged member of the BFEE who made his bones long ago.
Orrex
(63,215 posts)5. "Jeb said he'd deliver Florida, folks, and boy did he ever."
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,636 posts)4. You are so right. Class act, my lily white a**. n/t