Posted on 04/13/2005 8:21:32 PM PDT by cyncooper
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay apologized Wednesday for using overheated rhetoric on the day Terri Schiavo died, but refused to say whether he supports impeachment of the judges who ruled in her case.
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At a crowded news conference in his Capitol office, DeLay addressed remarks he made in the hours after the brain-damaged Florida woman died on March 31. "I said something in an inartful way and I shouldn't have said it that way and I apologize for saying it that way," DeLay told reporters.
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DeLay seemed at pains to soften, if slightly, his rhetoric of March 31, when Schiavo died despite an extraordinary political and legal effort to save her life.
"I believe in an independent judiciary. I repeat, of course I believe in an independent judiciary," DeLay said.
At the same time, he added, the Constitution gives Congress power to oversee the courts.
"We set up the courts. We can unset the courts. We have the power of the purse," DeLay said.
Asked whether he favors impeachment for any of the judges in the Schiavo case, he did not answer directly.
Instead, he referred reporters to an earlier request he made to the House Judiciary Committee to look into "judicial activism" and Schiavo's case in particular.
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Bump!
I received a call from the RNC on Wednesday for a donation. I told them that although I still consider myself a Republican, I wasn't in any mood to be sending them any money. President Bush and the Senate have started off 2005 in a very disappointing fashion. I guess there is always hope, but I don't see things getting any better over the next 2--4 years.
The above was the case though, despite many of the leaders' and members' continued posting throughout the day on the Terri, and Terri's passing, threads, as well as continued posting elsewhere on the board. I did notice one of the WPPFF members, who is a friend of mine, who posted "God rest her soul," after I made note on the board of my observation on the odd DERTH of offers to Terri from the WPPFF.
The WPPFF signed their official Manifesto with this:
"The WPPFF, aka The Wild Turkeys, aka the Coalition of the Sane."
The bolding of the word *Sane* is mine, and is to call attention to the signing of their official Manifesto with the use of that word...and that word being their last stated word (and, as I mentioned, in signature.)
I will leave it to all on Free Republic (and also those who lurk,) to determine the intent and implication of distinction of the used term, and the grouping and capitalizing of the stated, official designation and signation "Coalition of the Sane".
None of this sits well with me and many.
Wow even DeLay backs off.
Guess all of those polls aren't just BS, eh? The Prez and his boys sure are running away as fast as they can from all the fanatics that wanted armed rebellion and Jeb's head on a pike in Florida.
Too bad, so sad.... :)
Would you please post the transcript of this guardianship hearing you claim took place?
"Where did you get all your notes from? Felos?"
LOL Cute. No... And if you read my words, you'd know that insult was unjustified.
I'll tell you what you told the other poster: "If you were to have followed this case you would know"
Yes - Hammesfahr and Maxwell were both paid to testify that she wasn't PVS. Only a few out of the many, including ~7 neurologists, who diagnosed her as PVS going back to 1990, were also paid for.
You may find Hammesfahr and Maxwell credible, or dispute what I said about credibility counting - those are my opinions.
But you posted *factually false* information. I corrected it. If you think you can dispute it, go for it.
But don't call me Felos simply for correcting what is indisputably false information. I hold my tongue much too much to deserve it.
The condescension in your post is very amusing. Now be careful with your grammar and rethink some of that punctuation. And don't forget to brush your teeth before you go to bed.
"It is against the laws of the hospice foundation to hasten death or accept non terminally ill patients.
Terri was neither...but she survived in that house of death for almost FIVE YEARS."
This is my two cents:
Five years of HELL.
*Husband* ordered NO light (shades down at all times,) NO music or TV, No basic dental/oral hygiene care (resulting in the pulling and FALLING OUT of her TEETH,) NO doctor ordered/highly recommended antibiotics (*husband* over-rode doctor's orders,) No BASIC circulatory, occupational, speech, or swallow therapy, NO flowers, and NO outdoor experience. FOR YEARS. NOTHING. NOTHING.
And is it common knowledge that lack of adequate dental/oral care/hygiene is a HUGE invite to a whole HOST of INFECTIONS.
*Husband* ordered BOTH no oral care AND no needed/recommended antibiotics for infections that Terri had.
It all sickens me.
Her state based on the videos was someone definitely aware of their surroundings. I did not see a vegetable or a brain dead individual but even if she was in that state I couldn't pull the plug since it wasn't about terminal illness.
And Terri's teeth fell out and were pulled.
Yep.
You have mail.
Most are atheists. In the case of George Felos a full blown New Age kook.
I once discussed death with an atheist who was ethical and honest. He had morals. So I asked him what happens when *you* die? He said "I get lowered 6 feet into a cold dark grave and that's it."
What a cold cold way to look at life and death.
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