Disgusting Jeb Bush now going after Michael Schiavo!

[trumad]

One day after an exhaustive autopsy sought to end much of the controversy over Terri Schiavo's life, and eventual death, Gov. Jeb Bush said he plans to ask prosecutors to investigate whether her husband took too long to call for help on the night she collapsed in 1990.

A lawyer for Michael Schiavo called the governor's comments ''disgusting'' and said there was no delay in the husband's call for help.

Bush said Thursday that he had talked to Dr. Jon Thogmartin, the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner, a day before Thogmartin publicly released the results of his autopsy on Terri Schiavo, who died on March 31 after a protracted legal and political battle.

Bush said Thogmartin told him he had gained access to information suggesting that there was a 70-minute delay between when Michael Schiavo first heard a ''bump'' in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, 1990 and when he eventually called 911.

''I have not seen or heard of this information before that there's some doubt about when she did collapse and how long it took for a phone call to be made,'' Bush told reporters. ``That is I think, worthy of some investigation.''

George Felos, an attorney for Michael Schiavo, attacked Bush and said that while his client was not able to remember exact times of what happened that tragic morning, he immediately called for help after his wife collapsed.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11915831.htm

[tavalon]

1. Vindictive

little bastard, isn't he? He just can't stand to be proven wrong.

[merbex]

2. And Vicious n/t

[July]

28. IOW, Bush family SOP. nt

[Clark2008]

3. Good Lord. The fundies really are nuts!

Of course, I would say, "Keep it up, Jebbie. You're ruining your chances for 2008 or beyond."

What a maroon.

[Deja Q]

26. Don't be so sure. Oh, and if they are now so bold as to openly contrive

to throw people in the slammer, we should all be worried.

[Sandpiper]

4. I smell a malicious prosecution in the works

Bush boys don't take losing very well.

[crimson333]

5. I don't guess it occurred to them

that bad things happen to people all the time. People can die, stroke ect...kind of comes with being human and frailty and all that stuff

[leftchick]

6. I say we should investigate Jeb as an abusive father!

How long did it take you to seek help for your drug addled Daughter Jeb? Ooopsies, not until she was apprehended by the police for illegal prescriptions? why not before, jeb? When it was very apparent she was spinning out of control?? What Jeb?? I can't hear you!

:grr:



on edit: Found his statement the morning after her arrest...

"This is a very serious problem. Unfortunately, substance abuse is an issue confronting many families across our nation," the statement said. "We ask the public and the media to respect our family's privacy during this difficult time so that we can help our daughter. We will have no further comment on this issue. Thank you for your understanding."

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/29/jeb.bush.daughter.drugs/

[flordehinojos]

7. BUTT OUT JOHN ELLIS BUSH---LET TERRY SCHIAVO REST IN PEACE

(and let the nation rest as well)!

[B Calm]

8. They will do anything to distract from the DSM..

[NMMNG]

9. What an obsessed dildo

He needs to get a life and do his job - governing the state of Florida and the people who live there, not obsessing about this one person who has been dead for the past 15 years.:crazy:

[Ganja Ninja]

10. This poor man is going to have to leave this state and

maybe even this country to get away from these insane fundies and the power abusing scumbag Jeb. He is willing to do anything for the fundie vote. No amount of Florida tax payers money is too much to spend if it can keep the fundie vote for Jeb and the GOP. Justice has nothing to do with it. If there was a case there then charges would have been filed 15 years ago when it happened.

[cap]

11. It can take that long for a lay person to figure out something is really

wrong... For Gosh sakes, Michael Schiavo is not a medical doctor.

[LostinVA]

12. If there really was a 70 minute gap, it can be explained

You're in bed asleep, your wife goes into the bathroom, you kinda hear a noise, you drift back to sleep. You wake back up and she's still not in bed, so you investigate. God, I've done this myself when my partner hasn't felt well and went into either the living room or the guest bedroom.

So, I guess the coroner was paid off by Michael, eh? Jesus.

The teeny bit of sympathy I had left for the Schindlers has dissipated.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

13. Let's investigate why Jeb declared martial law 2 days before 9/11

how bout that jeb, asshole.

[Botany]

14. Or how he and a group of his friends bought a ......

...... building declared bankruptcy ....... and then got the same building
for pennies on the dollar .......

[soup]

18. 4 days. But who's counting?

It was Sept. 7th.
But that was my first thought too, when I saw the headline this morning:

'Schiavo timeline troubles governor'

"What he did say to me that was troubling ... was that there was some doubt about when she collapsed and how long it took for a phone call to be made to 911," Bush said. "I think that is worthy of some investigation."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/17/Tampabay/Schiavo_timeline_trou.shtml

Gov. Bush calls for Schiavo probe

''I have not seen or heard of this information before that there's some doubt about when she did collapse and how long it took for a phone call to be made,'' Bush told reporters. ``That is I think, worthy of some investigation.''
from the original post

'Executive Order timeline troubles DUers'

"We have seen and heard of this information before and there's more than 'some' doubt about why a new Executive Order was needed," democrat in Tallahassee said. "That is we think, worthy of some investigation."
http// www. yep, you got that right! . whyjeb?

edit because I'm a complete idiot...

[wakeme2008]

15. From the St. Pete Times..

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/06/17/Tampabay/Schiavo_timeline_trou.shtml

LARGO - Refusing to give up on the Terri Schiavo case, Gov. Jeb Bush has asked Pinellas prosecutors to sort out time discrepancies Michael Schiavo has provided regarding the hour he found his wife unconscious 15 years ago.

..cut...

Michael Schiavo has said he called 911 immediately after finding his wife collapsed on the floor of their home on Feb. 25, 1990. Though medical records indicate he called 911 about 5:40 a.m. that day, he told the Medical Examiner's Office recently that he found his wife about 4:30 a.m.

..more at link...

Michael not on trial,,, just answering questions about something that happened 15 years ago... and gives the wrong time.... BFD....


:grr: I hate Jeb more than *...

[Cooley Hurd]

16. Keep riding the Schiavo thing, Jebby...

Keep riding it until your ejection from office in 11/06, dickhead!!!!:thumbsdown:

[salin]

17. heh - let him do it - only serves him

in a negative light - if he does indeed have his sights on higher political office. What has worked for him in Florida *that is - national fundie and corp donors flood his coffers so he can run expensive and apparently appealing campaigns in florida* - is working against republicans nationally.

He showed that he "didn't get it" - the shifting political wins - when he came very close to forcing a police-type showdown to "save Schaivo". The more he engages in antics such as this - esp if they get high profile coverage... the more he damages himself with a public that is starting to get more than a little leery with the far/radical religious right and their access to govt (that is realizing that it is no longer a case of letting them believe what they want to believe - but that since they are getting power - they may just try to force their beliefs into our lives...)

[Minnesota Raindog]

19. Daily Show catches Frist in Big Lie

The Daily Show last night featured back-to-back clips of "Dr." Frist--first giving his "diagnosis" on the Senate floor last month, then from yesterday on the Today show, where he flat-out denied ever giving a diagnosis. Pretty sad--or funny--when you have to get the real news from Comedy Central.

[salin]

20. Saw a write up - with Frist getting pretty angry

trying to defend himself - and NOW claim that he never gave a "real diagnosis".... though his rhetoric rather defies that.

Sniff, sniff senator... are you starting to smell your desired future candidacy going up in smoke? Keep up with your antics in the senate and that smoke could become flames (as in completely blowing up any chance you might have to be a front runner.)

[markus]

37. Forget his candidacy; he should have his license revoked n/t

[soup]

24. Sorry I missed it.

laugh til you cry, then cry til you laugh seems to be the norm.
Squirm, Frist, squirm.

Welcome to DU Minnesota Raindog! :hi:

[newyawker99]

40. Hi Minnesota Raindog!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Inland]

21. Who is safe from these lunatics?

[elehhhhna]

22. Jeb should clean his own house first--the smuggler wife, the druggie

daughter, and the stalking, breaking & entering son...

You'd think his hands were full already.

[H2O Man]

23. I think it is strange

how these weasals refuse to accept the truth on this. The autopsy results were clear, and the people attempting to keep a still-breathing corpse "alive" were wrong. It reminds me of a psychotic fellow I used to talk to about boxing. He was convinced that Joe Frazier knocked Muhammad Ali out in the 10th round of their third fight, in Manilla. All boxing fans know Ali won by a TKO when Joe was unable to come out for the 14th round. I showed the film to this fellow a few times, but he was not able to process the realty of it. After we saw it, he was even further convinced that Frazier knocked Ali out in the 10th round. He had an excuse; Governor Bush does not.

[carpe diem]

25. somebody correct me if I'm wrong,...

but if she had stopped breathing, heart stopped beating over an hour before the ambulance arrived and resucitation efforts began, wouldn't she have been stiff and blue by the time they even started to revive her...then it took them 45 min. to an hour to get a pulse and sign of a heart beat..that means over 2 hrs without breathing/heartbeat...wouldn't she have been in rigormortis by then?

[Vinca]

27. What a perfect scenario for a Jeb Bush presidential bid.

Fire up the fundies at the expense of poor Michael Schiavo in order to rake in money and votes. What absolute scum. If I lived in Florida, I'd move.

[tea4me]

29. Paging Dr. Tellemcrap

Perhaps a team of doctors should examine Jeb so we can finally determine if he is completely brain dead!!:puke:

[newportdadde]

30. Speaking as a spouse and father here.

Sometimes noises in the middle of the night barely register. You might think your spouse dropped a hair brush or banged the toilet seat down while taking a leak causing the noise and dismiss. Hell the other night I slept through my 17 month old waking up at 2am, crying, my wife leaving the house to drive him around because I was so fucking tired.

Note to Jeb: Some of us have real jobs even more then one, you know the kind we get up for each day exhausted before it even starts. And seriously Jeb haven't you had enough mistresses make noise sneaking out that you wouldn't have noticed some noise either?

[Unforgiven]

31. Take Down

Maybe this is what will discredit Jeb, for all time. I would hope so.

[PA Democrat]

32. Perhaps the SOB should be more concerned about how long it's taking his

brother to do anything about the millions of Americans who do not have access to health care.

[flvegan]

33. It has to be spun. It has to be.

Let's not forget that thugs like Jeb REFUSE to ever appear to be wrong. As the world learns that he and his fundie followers were wrong, he has to re-rally the "troops" as it were to place Terri's death BACK on Schiavo. Next, he'll blame Michael for not using the Baker Act or some other means to get her mandatory help for any eating disorder she may have had. 6 degrees of spin, exactly.

With them, it's always attack, attack, attack. We should be taking notes, sadly.

[fishwax]

34. It's vicious. It's cruel. It's sadly typical

coming from a GOP politician with substantial christian-right backing. And we should never shut up about it and never stop pointing it out.

[Quixote1818]

35. Bush took a big hit on this and now he is clinging to a pipe dream to

vindicate himself. Grow up Jeb and get some sinsarity along the way!

[Liberal Veteran]

36. Beyond silly, beyond vindictive....

....it's just fucking stupid and a waste of time and tax dollars.

Various abuse claims have been floated and found more than wanting.

These people just can't stand it that the autopsy didn't somehow vindicate their little circus of legislative abuse and now are grasping at straws.

[LynneSin]

38. The girl was brain-damaged, YOU were wrong, Michael & docs were right

get over it.

No better yet, spend more tax-dollars investigating this so we really piss off the voters both in Florida and across the country so we make you totally inelectable in 2008. Maybe the anger will spill over and keep that bitch Cruella de Harris out of the senate

[MadHound]

39. Let's see here, what can Jebby charge Michael with?

Neglect? Failure to come to a person's aid? If I remember correctly, these charges are misdemeanors, or Class D felonies at best. And guess what, THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HAS EXPIRED JEB, YOU DUMBFUCK!

Jeb is just pissed that he didn't get his way, and that he was restrained by the rule of law. Georgy boy isn't the only Bush who things life would be better if he was a dictator.

[CatWoman]

41. that entire Bush family has fucking issues