President Bush, "Save the children!"
The mainstream media is a joke in this country. Here's another punchline. President Bush signed a bill when he was governor of Texas that allows hospitals to decide when life-sustaining care could be removed. The law allows hospitals to use remove care if a patient's insurance doesn't cover the care, even against the wishes of the patient's family. Just last week 6-month-old boy Sam Hudson had his feeding tube removed. The only place you can hear about this is in blogs and in alternative papers.
From the Village Voice.
"In 1999, then Gov. Bush signed a law that 'allows hospitals [to] discontinue life-sustaining care, even if patient family members disagree.' Just days ago the law permitted Texas Children's Hospital to remove the breathing tube from a 6-month-old boy named Sun Hudson," according to a report by the Center for American Progress. "The law may soon be used to remove life support from Spiro Nikolouzos, a 68-year-old man. Bush has not commented on either case."
Bush says we must put a value on all life, and yet this is the same guy that mocked a woman he put to death:
From the Village Voice.
"In 1999, then Gov. Bush signed a law that 'allows hospitals [to] discontinue life-sustaining care, even if patient family members disagree.' Just days ago the law permitted Texas Children's Hospital to remove the breathing tube from a 6-month-old boy named Sun Hudson," according to a report by the Center for American Progress. "The law may soon be used to remove life support from Spiro Nikolouzos, a 68-year-old man. Bush has not commented on either case."
Bush says we must put a value on all life, and yet this is the same guy that mocked a woman he put to death:
"Bush's brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it.
While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who was executed in Texas last year. In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. 'Did you meet with any of them?' I ask.
Bush whips around and stares at me. 'No, I didn't meet with any of them,' he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. 'I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with [Tucker], though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' 'What was her answer?' I wonder.
'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.'
I must look shocked – ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel, even for someone as militantly anticrime as Bush –because he immediately stops smirking.
