The War on Terri Part X

The Holy Week agony of Terri Schiavo continues apace. She has had no food or water since Friday.

Since the 11th Circuit elected to ignore the clear intent of the law passed by America's elected legislators in Congress, the Schindlers now have no recourse but the Supreme Court. If four justices elect to hear the case, Terri Schiavo may be spared death for at least a little while longer. If they do not, she will surely die sometime over the next several days.

President Bush thinks she ought to live:

"I believe that in a case such as this, the legislative branch, the executive branch, ought to err on the side of life, which we have," Bush said. "Now we'll watch the courts make their decisions."

While not saying what remaining options there might be, Bush said that he had "looked at all options prior to taking the action we took last weekend in concert with Congress."

How many ways can I thank God that this man is president, and not the grubby little men he vanquished at the polls?

People who deem themselves his intellectual superiors tie themselves in knots over the alleged thorniness of this issue, yet he cuts right to the heart of it: err on the side of life, not death. That's what Americans do.

Americans do not handcuff children trying to bring water to a dying woman.