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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
What a complete idiot. He's using a television interview for impeachment purposes? 15 years after the fact? What's he going to do--have him charged with murder?
Even Frist, who holds on to issues far longer than it politically sensible, has already acknowledged that he was wrong (well, by saying he never took a different position).
Isn't Bush up for reelection? Does he figure all the retirees will be up north during the election?
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Worse. Jeb is using the difference between trial testimony about an event 1-2 years after the fact and a television interview about an event 13 years after the fact for impeachment purposes. The difference is an issue of Schaivo's recollection of timing, 30 minutes either way.
The implication is that Schiavo might just be guilty of some crime or another -- and that the state should use law enforcement resources to inevstigate this 15 years later -- but that in any event is Schiavo is a bad, bad, man.
Jeb Bush is doing so even though the medical evidence suggests that both of Schiavo's recollections were inaccurate, and that he _must_ have found her unconscious closer to the time he called 911 at 5:40 a.m. (or she'd have been truly and completely dead).
Bush knows that no prosecutor in the world would ever investigate this "discrepancy." He must feel that he will get some type of political benefit from this. If only to try to cancel any negative effect of the autopsy findings on the perception of his actions during the "crisis." The man is really not stupid. This is reprehensible political grandstanding.
