I was just flipping through the MSNBC web site when I saw
this article by Jonathan Alter. The focus is on Jeb Bush and his recent call for an investigation into Terri Schiavo and Michael Schiavo.
Alter starts off by saying that he has never agreed with Bush on much, but that he always assumed he had some integrity. But, not any more.
He starts off with a brief discussion of what Bush has done, which is just absolutely freaking absurd. What a gigantic twit.
Last Friday, Bush faxed a letter to Pinellas-Pasco County State Attorney Bernie McCabe that clearly implied that Michael Schiavo, Terri's husband, had left his wife to die in 1990. Bush wrote that Schiavo testified in a 1992 malpractice suit that he had found his wife passed out at 5:00 a.m. of February 25, 1990. But in a later interview on "Larry King," Schiavo said he found her unconscious at 4:30 a.m. He placed the 911 call at 5:40 a.m.
"Between 40 and 70 minutes elapsed before the call was made and I am aware of no explanation for the delay," the governor wrote, as if Schiavo could be expected to remember the exact time he found her and placed the call. While claiming preposterously that he was not suggesting wrongdoing, he urged a "fresh look" at the 15-year-old case and McCabe has opened an investigation.
But, this is nothing, Alter saves his harshest and most cutting commentary for later, when he pulls out Bush's family issues.
Bush clearly wants the public to believe that in 1990 Michael Schiavo, who spent the next several years doing everything he could to help his stricken wife (including studying to become a nurse), actually wanted her to die right then and there. After 15 years, his timeline was inconsistent! He didn't call 911 immediately!
Bush has a daughter who, sadly, is a convicted drug abuser. When she passed out (as all drug abusers do), did he immediately call 911? Does he remember the exact time of the call? Was there a gap between the time he first saw that she might be ailing and when he took her for treatment?
Then what? He slams again by suggesting that Schiavo should sue Bush! Yes!
I can understand why Michael Schiavo, after years in court, would not want to sue Jeb Bush. But he might have a good case. Here's a governor using the power of his office to suggest--with no evidence--that a heinous act occurred 15 years ago. It's called slander.
Wow. Is that it? Nope. One last shot, another really nice personal attack. Damn, this guy is pissed!
George and Barbara Bush have always said their children make them proud. I'm sure they always wanted a son who not only intruded on an excruciating family drama, but persecuted a man who has already suffered greatly, flinging false accusations for political gain. That's character.