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Bush and consistency

Yesterday President Bush said of the Schiavo case in Florida:

This is a complex case with serious issues . . . But in extraordinary
circumstances like this, it is wise to always err on the side of
life.

Grotesque.

This from the same man who, as governor of Texas…

  • href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Brain%20Damaged%20Woman%20Texas%20Law">passed
    a law in 1999 establishing end-of-life decision-making rights
    first to the spouse, then to “reasonably available adult children”,
    and then to parents.
  • …oversaw the
    execution of 152 death row inmates
    , accepted 0 requests for
    clemency, and commuted only one death sentence (for Henry Lee Lucas
    who had been sentenced to die for a crime committed while he was not
    in the state).
    Texas death row executions (95-2000 are the Bush Years):

    Year ‘82 ‘84 ‘85 ‘86 ‘87 ‘88 ‘89 ‘90 ‘91 ‘92 ‘93 ‘94 ‘95 ‘96 ‘97 ‘98 ‘99 ‘00 ‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 All
    Prisoners 1 3 6 10 6 3 4 4 5 12 17 14 19 3 37 20 35 40 17 33 24 23 4 340
  • …and who href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010211005743/www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,39180,00.html">mocked
    Christian convert Karla Faye Tucker’s plea for her life when she was
    on death row:

    “‘Please,’ Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, ‘don’t kill me.’”

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