As an officer of government, Florida Governor Jeb Bush (Jeb. Who the hell names a child "Jeb?" That's child abuse that is.) is a complete waste of a sentient human. He's like a tiny bull terrier with a small lizard in its mouth. He shakes that hapless lizard and, when its tail pops off and the lizard flees, he proudly proclaims victory. His latest yappings come in the wake of the Terri Schiavo autopsy, a family tragedy he tastelessly inserted himself into and, when the courts smacked him on the nose with a roll of legal papers, he went yipping to his bigger brother for help.
Governor Bush has instructed a prosecutor to probe in to what he calls "discrepancies" in Michael Schiavo's 911 call upon the collapse of his wife, Terri. Basically, he claims that Mr. Schiavo waited 40 to 70 minutes to call for emergency services after his wife collapsed. Never mind the basic facts of the case, which state that Mrs. Schiavo would have died had he waited that long. More importantly, there is nothing a prosecutor could possibly charge Mr. Schiavo with, legally. The autopsy indicated no physical abuse had occurred. Even if it had, fifteen years had passed: The statute of limitations is up. She died over one year and one day after her collapse, invalidating any murder charges.
If Governor Bush believes otherwise, someone needs to start rationing his "Law & Order" intake.
Governor Bush's instructions to the prosecutor can only serve one purpose. They are intended to further slander and harass a man who served as the living symbol of what has become a disastrous political, legal, and popular defeat for both Bush brothers. Governor Jeb Bush has revealed himself as a small, petty, vindictive little man with an inferiority complex a mile wide. Not content to have permenantly smeared a man whose only apparent crime has been to buck his governor's politics, the Bush machine feels it must throw bones to its hard-right constituency by continuing to persecute him. We now have a preview of what a third Bush presidency would look like: Nothing like the father's, and rather characterized by recriminations and vengeance; in short, just like his brother's presidency. A President Jeb would be just as big a bully as his brother.
-Jim
Cross-posted at Los Punditos.