We Can't Storm the Hospice

I was listening to Hugh's show during the drive home today and was surprised to hear the callers that insisted that they'd hate Jeb Bush forever if he didn't storm into the hospice and physically take possession of Terri Schiavo. Even John Gibson on Fox News was advocating potentially violent action (ht Instapundit):

Just to burnish my reputation as a bomb thrower, I think Jeb Bush should give serious thought to storming the Bastille.

By that I mean he should think about telling his cops to go over to Terri Schiavo's hospice, go inside, put her on a gurney and load her into an ambulance. They could take her to a hospital, revive her, and reattach her feeding tube. It wouldn't save Terri exactly; she'd still be in the same rotten shape she was in before they disconnected the feeding tube.

That kind of talk really doesn't help Fox's desire for a "fair and balanced" reputation.

I thought Hugh handled the would-be anarchists very well, reminding them that if we're going to be a nation of laws, we can't just decide when we will and won't obey court decisions. I guarantee you if Jeb did as the callers suggested, he'd quickly find himself in contempt of court and would probably find himself in jail. That wouldn't accomplish anything.

We also have to look at the big picture. How would we feel if a Dem governor decided to ignore a court order that we liked and take the law into his hands? We'd be apoplectic with rage at the thought that someone would dare ignore the court at our expense.

The real answer to this whole thing is to put good judges on the courts; judges who will interpret the law and the constitution and not enact their own personal biases. The GOP Senators have got to develop enough backbone to stand up for the President's nominees and enact the Constitutional option if the Dems decided to filibuster.