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...school accountability, economic diversification and management of the state's explosive growth over his seven years in office, Bush has too often been tripped up by partisan plays. There was his much criticized role in the 2000 election recount, but he also looked desperate, fighting to keep Terri Schiavo alive earlier this year and suddenly supporting a G.O.P. congressional plan to allow oil drilling 125 miles off the coast of Florida. Whether his latest proposal, to move Florida's Medicaid patients into managed-care plans, turns out to be a sensible reform or a conservative flop remains to be seen...
...What an awful year for the President and the country. There was the failure of Social Security reform, a good idea that was misplaced as the Administration's top priority. There was the shameless political grandstanding in the Terri Schiavo case. There was Katrina. There is the stench of corruption rising from the Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff scandals and the appointment of so many hacks and cronies to positions of power. There is the possibility that Karl Rove and other top Administration officials will soon be indicted in the Valerie Plame leak case. There was, and is, the failure...
...stab at the 50-year-old Roberts, who, if confirmed, will be the youngest chief justice in 200 years, Dershowitz said, “Today, they’re trying to nominate fetuses in the hope that they will be kept alive like [Terri] Schiavo...
...There's an emotion to it that makes it different from day laborers hanging out in front of the Home Depot," says Krikorian. In North Carolina an in-state-tuition bill died in committee in May after talk radio helped stir a furor "one hundred times bigger than Terri Schiavo," in the words of Kevin Miller, a host at WPTF in Raleigh. Many listeners were worried that expanded in-state rates would not only suck up taxpayer dollars but would also make it harder for their kids to get into top state schools like the University of North Carolina...
Although the court refused to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case this spring, that was far from the last word it will have on the right to die. Next term the court is scheduled to hear the Bush Administration's challenge to Oregon's law that allows doctors to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill patients. The Federal Government says Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide is a violation of the Controlled Substances Act, a claim rejected by the lower courts. The Justices ruled in 1997 that state laws banning assisted suicide are constitutional. Still, given...