The autopsy results confirm Terry Schiavo was no longer a sentient being. Dr. Bill Frist’s Senate floor diagnosis on March 17 belonged on a “remote viewing” segment of Art Bell’s show.
But, while the WaPo‘s E.J. Dionne pens, “Dr. Frist, we’re still waiting to hear, I goofed’,” Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush is guest-starring on CBS’s Cold Case cop drama:
Says journalist Chris Floyd, “[O]f course this is vile: a blatant, brutal misuse of state power to wage culture war on behalf of a ruthless extremist ideology.” But, “get used to it, folks,” warns Floyd … and here’s why:
“Jeb is being readied for the dynastic succession — he’ll be on the ticket somewhere in 2008, either at the top or VP,” writes Floyd on his blog, Empire Burlesque. More below:
And, says Floyd, who writes the weekly Global Eye political column for The Moscow Times and St. Petersburg Times:
It’s part of the terrible devolution of GOP politics. Everytime you think it can’t get any worse — it does. Nixon once seemed the abyss of political crime and corruption; but my God, his administration seems like a golden age of enlightened government compared to what has come after it. Then we thought it couldn’t get worse than Reagan; then it couldn’t possibly get any worse than Bush/Quayle; and yet we keep descending deeper and deeper into the pit.
But we’ve not hit bottom yet, not by a long shot. Keep your eye on Florida. There’s a rough beast slouching out of those swamps, raising a tsunami of slime that will sweep away the last few bastions of genuine democracy and human decency left in our gutted, battered, betrayed and broken Republic.
I ran across this after I’d finished writing the above. It’s so damn good, I have to share it with you. From BTC News:
Apparently blessed with the same keen investigative instincts as his elder brother, US president George Bush, the Florida governor based his assessment of the evidence on various statements by Michael Schiavo regarding the approximate time of Teri Schiavo’s collapse as compared to the actual time Mr. Schiavo placed the emergency call.
Although Schiavo claims that the disparity in his statements about the time arise from his failure to wear a watch or consult a clock while he tried to save his wife’s life in the early morning hours of February 25, 1990, Mr. Bush is concerned, without any preconceptions, that Michael Schivao may have sat about his living room doing malpractice sums as his wife’s heart stopped and her brain embarked upon its inexorable journey to destruction. …
I’m bookmarking this site!
I have been of the opinion that Jeb was next in line to the throne for well over a year. I truly believe that this debacle of fascists pigs started with George h and the sons must carry on just as in any monarchy. What are we willing to do to stop it. It would be interesting to find out how often Jeb and Karl “get together” these days wouldn’t it?
Ditto.
He’s on the ticket. And I’ll bet another vegan hotdog barbecue that he’s on the top of the ticket.
Without a doubt. That is why it is imperative that we uncover the truth of the lies now before it is too late. The American public must awaken to the fact that this is the plan and that these fscist lying criminals MUST be stopped. The 64 thousand dollar question is who do we put up against them? Any thoughts Susan?
We need fresh meat.
I don’t know a whole lot about Brian Schweitzer but he seems to be the kind of politician with just enough of the manly cowboy touch to excite people.
So help me god, if John Kerry gets it again, i’ll vote for Nader. Might as well. (I doubt I really would, but then again … it might be preferable to being a part of the herd of buffalo hurtling over the cliff.)
Embarrassed to ask – who is Brian Schweitzer?
I’ve seen you mention his name in a very positive light before, Susan. . .and I guess I could behave like a “do bee” (hope I’m not aging myself too much with that one!) and I could google his name. (And that’s not to be confused with “doobie”, just for the record)
But it’s Saturday night, I’m more in line with a “don’t be”, and you’re a kind, generous woman. Plus, I’d prefer to hear your take on the guy rather than trying to figure things out on my own. (And oh yeah, if I conducted my own research I might miss the midnight viewing of yet another syndicated episode of The Practice :-). (Love my Saturday nights, with a 9:00 viewing and a midnight viewing – on top of my Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. viewings of the show!)
Oh wait – back on topic – Schweitzer – please share if you have a moment – or direct me to some relevant stuff (non-biased, of course :-).
Thanks, my dear. Most importantly, I hope you and your family are doing well – I send positive affirmations in your direction every day.
Peace and blessings to you.
I happen to agree with all that the article said and more. I agree with both of you on what you have said…It is such a scary shitin way of starting out my day here….what a depressing thing to review..but necessary. Yes we do have to stop it right now before it blooms into a monarchy. If it hasnt already. God save our soul and country!
Cross-posted at DKos
an interesting group of comments there….wonder just how they will produce the verbage when the time comes for that.
Do these people just like wasting taxpayer dollars purposely on something so politically motivated and stupendously stupid-so as to starve social programs and inhibit any real change for regular people?
And the phrase–‘tsunami of slime’ is going to be my new catchphrase for this bunch of cretins..that description is priceless..and of course it being patently true makes it all the more relevant.
And anyone who thought Babs Bush was telling the truth when she said Jebbie wasn’t going to run or that that family wanted out of politics really would have to have rocks in their head.
Let’s just start calling him Jeb Somoza….
A couple of things…if Michael Schiavo did indeed wait that long….wouldn’t his wife have died..Just died right there in their house.. Second…this happened 15 years ago and he and his wife won a Malpractice suit and was awarded Millions of Dollars…Don’t you think back then someone would have looked into this and if it seemed shady or possible that Michael was involved in a Murder NOT have awarded them the money. JEB is just covering his ass and doing this for his Dobson base which he lost during the Schiavo Circus. No matter the out come, at least he persued it to the end. I personally think he an Asshole for bring the whole thing up again, although it probably will strengthen his Dobson Base. Remember they are down in the deep south.
It in totally unthinkable to me, that Americans might be ignorant enough to EVER elect another Bush to office.
If they do, I’m done for, for my head will certainly explode, leaving me facing years of Republican mandated tube feedings, my limbs contracting, curling into a permanent fetal position, from whence I will drool and smile senselessly into the cameras, thus fulfill my destiny as living proof of the Right Wingers godly committment to a “Culture of Life.”
needs to worry about his connections to the Cuban exile community too. Some of those folks are notorious criminals, terrorists, and drug runners.
Jeb would have a lot of friends to disown.
Not in the top slot, and likely not in the second. There are plenty of other fascist slezzebags out there to worry about. From what I hear, Karl Rove is interested in running Bill Frist. I don’t find this unsupported speculation about Jeb Bush very helpful.
I find treating the idea that he “will run” as a fait acompli even less helpful, and I don’t think it’s terribly healthy. It speaks of a certain amount of fixation on the Bush family, and is strangely reminiscent of the lines we’ve heard coming time and again from the right wing about the Clintons.
There is nothing in this story, other then the author’s unsupported opinion, that suggests Jeb Bush will be on the ticket. If we really are so hung up on Bush that we can’t see beyond him, then we’re in trouble. The ultracon right-wing doesn’t stop at the Bushs. Worry about the threats we know about (starting with Frist), and save the conspiratorial speculation for when there’s something in the way of evidence to justify it.
Well, without your insight, the rest of us are left to wander the earth blindly.
If you want to engage in conspiratoricy theories and rumor mongering and speculation, without offering any evidence to back up your opinions, then by all means have fun. When you’re done, you can find me with the rest of the people in the reality based community, where simply saying something is true isn’t enough to actually make it so.
I’m sorry my insistence on making supportable arguments doesn’t agree with you.