Tell me, who’s ‘flip-flopping’ now?

In 1999, then-Governor of Texas George W. Bush signed into law 76(R) SB 1260 – an amendment known as the "Texas Futile Care Law." This would permit hospitals to cease providing life support for those unable to pay, if the hospital decides their chance of recovery is nil.

And in 2005, the same man who'd later become president and ignore the details of a certain August 2001 memo while on vacation back at the ranch would ceremoniously fly from Crawford to Washington to drum the emergency Congressional Terri Schiavo bill into law.

Can you say photo-oppin', flip-floppin' phony?

Now I know both the Florida and U.S. Supreme Courts have ordered that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube not be re-inserted, but now Jeb Bush is in on the action. I guess we'll just see what happens next, but in the meantime, Christ already - can the Schiavo and Schindler families please have some dignity, peace and bloody quiet?


And a post-script to Tuesday's entry about Tom DeLay: To the rest of the world, please accept my most profuse and sincere apologies about the existence of this man. I know I'm personally not to blame, but for those of you who think Texas is full of Jeezbots and pricks, trust me - those of us not responsible and embarrassed beyond words are just as horrified as you are that this “Passion”-invoking, parasitic dickweed is manipulating minds and feasting on the blood of people who should know better. But no, Tom DeLay’s not from Texas. Really. He’s just pretending to be from here. He’s actually an angry cockroach whose ghost came back to haunt and take over the very soul and being of some former exterminator from Houston.