Hobgoblin of little minds

I find this quotation from Governor Jeb Bush fascinating:

Certainly, an incapacitated person deserves at least the same protection afforded criminals sentenced to death.

Jeb, I'm fairly certain that your brother George would disagree. While he was governor of Texas, he signed the Texas Futile Care Act. As the Houston Chronicle sums up the law,

Texas law allows hospitals [to] discontinue life sustaining care, even if patient family members disagree. A doctor's recommendation must be approved by a hospital's ethics committee, and the family must be given 10 days from written notice of the decision to try and locate another facility for the patient.

Even more fascinating is that the organization National Right to Life helped draft the legislation! It certainly makes President Bush sound a bit hypocritical now when he claims that there should be a "presumption in favor of life".

However, I have found the one bit of consistency in Bush's positions! In both Texas and in the Schiavo case, George W. Bush has always been against letting the immediate family decide what's best for the patient.