Time to pull the plug

...on the Bush presidency. He's obviously brain dead, as are a good number of his followers.

Why hasn't Georgie rushed off to Houston to lobby for Andrea Clark's life? Where are Randall Terry and "Terri's Troops" with their signs and vigils and cups of cold water? Why hasn't Jeb Bush declared war on Texas so he can invade and save this poor woman? Where are the hypocrites of the Religious Reich with their venomous denunciations of the "objectively pro-murder" politician who signed the damned law in the first place?

Houston Hospital Votes To End Woman's Life With Bush Law

HOUSTON---The countdown has begun on the life of Andrea Clark, a patient at St. Luke's Hospital.

Six days left.

No, she's not terminal, her family says and she's not brain dead. Her sisters say that she wants to live. The Houston hospital is going to unilaterally remove a woman from life support, apparently based on the decision of a lone physician even though her family wants her to continue to receive care.

The central issue in the Andrea Clark case is the same as that in the Terri Schindler Schiavo case, whether the state should be able to sanction the removal of a human being from life support.

What's even more significant in the Clark case is that the Texas bill that allows health care providers to end a human life despite the wishes of the patient and the patient's family was signed into law in 1999 by President George W. Bush as Texas Governor. However, in 2005, he rushed back to the White House from Easter vacation to sign a bill rushed through Congress which was designed to save the life of Terri Schiavo because of his "presumption in favor of life".

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