More on that legislation that Bush signed in Texas, the law that directly contradicts his supposed position now:
The 1999 Advance Directives Act in Texas allows a patient’s surrogate to make end-of-life decisions and spells out how to proceed if a health provider disagrees with a decision to maintain or halt life-sustaining treatment.
Thomas Mayo, an associate law professor at Southern Methodist University who helped draft the Texas law, told the Associated Press that if the Schiavo case had happened in Texas, the husband would have been her surrogate decision maker. Because both he and her doctors were in agreement, life support would have been discontinued, he said.
Like all the Bush staff, his press secretary spouts out something that resembles an answer, but in fact makes no sense at all in the context of current events, it’s like the excuses that bad liars always come up with:
White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters that the law Bush signed in 1999 “is consistent with his views. . . . [It] actually provided new protections for patients.”
Meanwhile, it’s also pointed out that Bush flew back to Washington (at a cost of more than $34,000 per flying hour) to sign the Schiavo bill; when in fact he could have signed it at his ranch. Now that’s what I call political expediency… and fiscally conservative.
I do so wish that this becomes the issue that makes people realize what fanatical ideologues the Republicans have become. That people suddenly understand that the right wing has no interest in limited government or fiscal sanity; that they want the federal government to reach right into your personal life and keep tabs on everything you do; to create a huge Big Brother-style bureaucracy and keep you in line.
Hardly a conservative agenda, if you ask me.
