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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Maybe DeLay needs to start apologizing to those of us who supported him and encouraged him to go forward. Maybe he needs to apologize for speaking out and representing OUR voice.
AP is All Propaganda.
a perfect example of the "stand together or hang separately" analogy. the key point to have been made from our party regarding the Schiavo case was the conduct of the judiciary - but when you can't get everyone to work off the same playlist and have a fractured message, you have no message at all, and the brave ones who run ahead with the correct message have to retreat.
you can see the white house strategy here - they believe that if any leading republicans criticize the judiciary, that it will hurt our chances of public support on judicial appointments because our nominees will be cast as "not independent". right, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an "independent" jurist. so whether the courts starve someone to death, or find some new civil right to let Lee Malvo escape the hangman's noose, we are silent on it. the white house never even considers that we should instead use these incidents to shape public opinion, rather then the "don't say anything and maybe we'll be OK" approach.
From the article:
"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.
Word.
No....actually he is trying to save his butt.
What's "the Terri crowd"? You mean those of us who don't think that a disabled person should be barbarically and publicly murdered over the course of two excruciating weeks with the blessing of the courts? To each his own, I guess. We were obviously raised differently.
You have GOT to be kidding.
Republicans are not part of the solution -- it's all smoke and mirrors..
Jeb proved once and for all, that Republicans are part of the PROBLEM!
It's time to walk from the GOP.. I did, and I've been a Republican activist since 1980..
No....he's running like a scared bunny rabbit from the Democrats and their allies in the scumbag liberal newsrooms. He showed weakness, and now the sharks will smell blood in the water.
The left is building here a major defeat. This is because incumbent Republicans have no balls.
Don't blink Tom.
That will only encourage your enemies.
Especially those you may have considered friendly.
Hear Hear.
DeLay realizes that he has a problem, but has no ability to extract himself. He does not have a clue what he really wants to do about rogue judges that he could or would articulate, knowing that just saying "impeach the boys" will send him over the side. Thus he is reduced to saying they should be investigated. Investigated about what? TMost legal beagles think the federal courts if not Greer got it right on Schiavo. Pathetic. Toss him overboard.
Are you a Constimatooshinalist, home of goofball Chuck Baldwin, who can't figure out if he's a pastor or a politician?.
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