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June 18, 2005
It's Schiavo-Clock Somewhere
She's been gone in body for 10 weeks, and gone in mind for 15 years, but conservatives still can't let Terri Schiavo die.
First of all, something I negelected to consider when the autopsy results came out, but as Nico points out over at ThinkProgress, Bill Frist appears to be about as incompetent a doctor as he is a Senator. Remember all that video footage back in March, when Dr. Frist apparently manifested the incredible ability to diagnose a patient without actually seeing her in person?
"I question it based on a review of the video footage which I spent an hour or so looking at last night in my office," he said in a lengthy speech in which he quoted medical texts and standards. "She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli."
Well now... how do we reconcile this incredibly prescient diagnosis with the medical, physical fact that Terri Schiavo was blind? It would seem that Frist is guilty of malpractice in either one or the other of his two chosen professions.
But the larger issue, one that frankly disgusts me and I think shows the entire world exactly what conservatives are all about, is that even when presented with indisputable medical fact, Jeb Bush and the Christian Taliban can't seem to let this one go. Proven wrong, they are incapable of admitting it -- and so are even more desperately clutching at further straws.
After medical fact eliminated his sole argument on this case and made him look stupid, Jeb Bush has apparently decided once again that he knows better than 15 years of judges and court decisions, and has for all intents and purposes called for a criminal investigation of Michael Schiavo (despite the fact that not once in all these years has a single person who's seen the evidence concluded that Michael Schiavo abused his wife).
Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday that a prosecutor has agreed to investigate why Terri Schiavo collapsed 15 years ago, citing an alleged time gap between when her husband found her and when he called 911.
This is just disgusting. There are fewer things more pathetic in this world than seeing people who were categorically and undeniably proven wrong still refusing to admit it or accept it. And by trying to raise the specter -- falsely and disingenuously -- of abuse against Michael Schiavo, Jeb Bush and his supporters have shown us all what pathetic, desperate, mean-spirited, and unfeeling people they really are. As the Palm Beach Post put it in an editorial today,
In the Terri Schiavo case, the Bushes and other Republicans showed contempt for the Constitution, the courts and science, all of which is depressingly normal behavior. They still won't admit that they were wrong. They won't admit even that they miscalculated. They are ignoring reality.
