“He should be ashamed. And I think people really need to know what type of person he is. To bring as much pain as he did, to me and my family, that should be an issue.” – Michael Schiavo on Jeb Bush.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Yessirree. Of course, Jeb should also be ashamed of purging voter rolls and gaming the system to aid his idiot brother in “winning” FL.
But the Bushes, like virtually all Repubs, are long past shame. The American “conservative” movement, for all its absurd protestations, is long past any conventional morality. They would make Nietzsche blush…
My sister, a Floridian and Republican, was privatized out of her state job six months before retirement. She’ll have no problems voting for anyone else in the clown car, but not Jeb. She hates Jeb so much she calls him a liberal.
Wow! Talk about a complete failure of connecting the dots ability even with the personal experience of the negative consequences of GOP fiscal management and policies.
Fox News or lifelong?
Shame is outside the capacity of the Bush family, almost all elites (based on status, power, and/or wealth), and psychopaths.
A strong and solid majority of USians do agree with Michael Schivo, but not so many Democratic politicians stood up for him in real time. So, unless Jeb! runs in the general election against one of the few that did, it won’t be a campaign issue. A price Democrats pay for over and over again demonstrating a lack of moral courage.
“almost all elites (based on status, power, and/or wealth), and psychopaths.”
There’s a difference? Seriously!
Yes. Elites are trained and given permission by their families and society to engage in narcissistic and anti-social behaviors as long as such behaviors are within the roles they’ve been given. If they go beyond their assigned roles and into legally prohibited behaviors, the law goes easy on them.
Psychopaths are self-trained in buying into the notion that the rules of their class and the law doesn’t apply to them. A failure of socialization or for an extremely high percentage, the absence in their lives of adequate socialization from families and schools.
In practice, not much of a difference.
In practice, elites damage far more people than psychopaths do. The number of victims of GWB/Cheney’s war in Iraq and the number of victims of the 21st century bankster fraud were in the millions. However, they have help that does the dirty work.
Why Madoff is sitting in prison while the others are free is that he stole from other elites and not nameless and faceless members of the have nots.
Your words are pure gold.
If only I had access to platinum words I might have a chance to pierce through some of your long held and emotionally charged views that aren’t consistent or compatible with your other leftie or progressive perspectives.
Ditto
Shame?
ROFLMAO!!!
Being conservative, means never feeling any shame – and never having to say you’re sorry.
Kind of like DC MSM Villager punTWIT’S!
“Terri who?”
says the American Public. They don’t remember the horrible circumstances of the Schiavo case and they can’t appreciate or understand the agony the family went through. Their personal tragedy, prolonged and bandied back and forth like a volleyball, was nothing more to the Bush Administration than a political grandstand.
God rest Terri’s soul, but Jeb has most surely put it all behind him and expects us to do the same.
You’re correct that Americans won’t/don’t remember Teri Schiavo. However, in real time 60% were able to relate to the experience and pain of Michael Schiavo and didn’t want the government or politicians to interfere with such a personal and painful decision that they may experience. The other 40% either didn’t know or preferred that they and their family members be kept alive artificially absent adequate brain functioning and without any chance of recovery.
Couldn’t understand the Tom Delay/Jeb Bush government interventionism during Schiavo. But for today’s Rep Party that advocates that a fetus should have a lawyer, that a woman should get permission from her rapist to have an abortion it’s worth a wonder that maybe the new Rep Party will applaud Jeb’s part. Maybe even garner him sick minds votes.
From what I read on right wing sites most have Jeb because he did not single handily save her himself.
By that I mean personally removing her from hospice
Have should be hate
Sorry
Being a cruel person is a fucking prerequisite for the support of the Republican base. And if you can do it while titillating their pro-life urges? Hellloooooo, Iowa!
Jeb should pay Michael Schiavo to follow him around.
Shame is the direct result of having a conscience. The Republican Party has no conscience. It is just not an ingredient in their ideological Soufflé. Whenever one of them tries to add it in, the Soufflé falls every time. And falls badly.