Thursday, February 24, 2005

Governor Jeb Bush May Have Found a Way to Help Terri Schiavo

From LifeNews.com (Hat Tip: Tim Thornton over at C-POL.) Those bone scans might have done it, we now hear from both attorneys--George Felos for Michael Schiavo and David Gibbs for Bob Schindler. Now the Florida Department of Children and Families has gotten involved, probably because those bone scans reveal evidence that Michael Schiavo had been an abusive husband before Terri's collapse. This might be one of the many, many things that Judge Greer had on his desk--too much to review in just a few hours, which is why he granted an extra two days' stay. But he did not allow a DCF representative to speak at the hearing.

What is going through Judge Greer's mind? Has he a conflict of interest? Frankly, I can't imagine that Michael Schiavo or George Felos or anybody else could possibly pay the judge enough to skew justice deliberately. More likely, Judge Greer has made up his mind far too early and won't listen to evidence that he might have been wrong for lo, these many years. "I was wrong" is one of the three hardest things for a man to admit (the others being "I don't know" and "I need help" the hat tip for this one goes to Mark McCormack (What They Don't/Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School)). These are far more substantive grounds than Governor Bush has had yet to intervene in this case. The showdown will come at or before five o'clock tomorrow (Friday). As Matt Drudge likes to say, Developing...