What does Jeb Bush get off on?
I mean clearly it's power.
He comes from a family famous for it's crude unsophisticated power worship.
And the neatest power of all, for any President or Governor, is the power of life and death.
Nothing so over-awes the peasants as executing a criminal with one hand and reconnecting a brain damage case's feeding tube with the other.
For the serious power-addict the rush of dispensing both life and death is nigh indescribable.
Ultimately the Schiavo case is not really a pro-life issue, no it's about making sure that questions of health, life, death, punishment and all the rest are solely controlled by fanatical conservatives.
Health decisions historically made by private individuals can now be over-ridden by puritan activists in your state legislature.
Make no mistake about it, this is a sort of GOP "bill of attainder" by which poor vegetative Terri Schiavo is being "sentenced" to life imprisonment with an inactive brain sans trial.
Oh Jeb will wax maudlin on this one....sanctity of life, blah blah blah...a strategic convert to Catholicism, Jeb is a master of the pro-life lexicon.
He may rule over a state that is a national embarrassment in every way as well as being the farthest north of the Banana Republics, but Jeb is prone to treacly sentimentality as much as any other brass hat dictator.
Especially when it's the sort of sentimentality that increases his own authority and expands the scope of government intrusiveness.
Well that is La Famiglia Arbusto for you, they'll pretty much countenance war, famine, humiliation and all manner of misery as long as in the end they still have the power to give some citizen somewhere a hard time.
Sick
Demented