AP: The autopsy released Wednesday on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding she was severely and irreversibly brain-damaged and blind as well. It also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused before she collapsed.

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In Washington, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the autopsy did nothing to change President Bush's position that Schiavo's feeding tube should not have been disconnected. He had signed a bill, rushed through by Congress in March, in a last-ditch effort to restore her feeding tube.

So all that argumentation, the claims about an incorrect diagnosis, the insinuations that the husband had abused her, that drugs had been used to speed her death, that she was conscious and aware and tracking motion with her eyes -- all of that, and much more, the entire basis for the right getting involved in this family (and state matter), is now shown to have been (as it seemed clear it was at the time) completely and totally untrue, but that makes not a bit of difference to Bush.

In the reality-based world, we make decisions to the best of our ability on the basis of facts, and when the facts change, or are shown to have been wrong, we alter our choices to accomodate the new circumstances. That's anethema to Bush.