Friday, June 17, 2005 from Cohutta

Strangely enough, Tom DeLay and the prez seem to be keeping their mouths shut regarding all their political grandstanding about Terri Schiavo. Unfortunately, Jeb Bush and Senator/Doctor Bill Frist seem to think that if they put their feet in their mouths a little bit deeper, they will be easier to extricate.

Jeb Bush now wants to question what he has never questioned before: the perceived time delay of Schiavo's call to 911. Senator/Doctor Frist now says that he did not make a diagnosis from the short 4-year old video that Terri's parents had been using and reusing to push their point. Though, he began his speech to Congress by saying that he was speaking to them as a doctor as well as a senator, he is now backpedaling and saying that he did not make a diagnosis when he said about the, we now know, blind Terri Schiavo that, "She certainly seems to respond to visual stimuli."

I think that they both need to look at the number of constituents that they're pandering to and ask themselves if it's worth it.