The battle to save Terri Schiavo's life is all but over for her, her husband and parents. A Florida state court judge has rejected Jeb Bush's motion to intervene. Here's a not-surprising bit of information on the neurologist that said Terri could recover and whose opinion was included by Jeb Bush in his court petition:

Bush's challenge to the disagnosis on Terri Schiavo's brain damage is based on the opinion of a neurologist working for the state who observed Schiavo at her bedside but did not conduct an examination of her.

The neurologist, William Cheshire of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, is a bioethicist who is also an active member in Christian organizations, including two whose leaders have spoken out against the tube's removal.

Ronald Cranford of the University of Minnesota, a neurologist who was among those who made a previous diagnosis of Schiavo, said "there isn't a reputable, credible neurologist in the world who won't find her in a vegetative state."

Now the death watch will begin. I can't even fathom what the rest of the world, watching on tv, will make of the radical right carrying life-size crosses and engaging in other wierd activity outside the hospice. Actually, yes I can. They will say Amercians are behaving like lunatics. They'll be right.

After the death watch ends, the political fallout will begin. How many days until we can get back to real news?