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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I thought you might get some enjoyment from reading this thread. They're baaack.....!!!
I agree.
But also many of us did post prayers and "rest in peace". My first post upon hearing the news was to offer prayers(something I rarely announce, preferring to privately say a prayer) so the post saying this was not done was plain and simply a flat out lie.
They did. The post saying they didn't was a lie.
You might want to re-think your tagline. One of the most popular features on FR is The DUmmie FUnnies, where we re-post and mock the ravings from Democratic Underground.
Believe me, it's hardly an honor.
You're correct.
I have read the exchange, and cannot
figure what prompted mercyme to throw
flames, other than my suspicions regarding
the sign-on dates being from DU as threatened.
I think you are misunderstanding my tag line. I will not be changing it at this time.
I think you are misunderstanding the word "honor."
I don't see why he should apologize for his comments about judges generally. Specifically, if his comments about juges were about the Shivo case, yes he should apologize. He had no business being involved. He should also apologize for maligning the Terri's husband.
My thoughts on the Shivo debacle:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1366225/posts?page=108#108
Like I said, you do not understand my tag line so please leave it alone. If you do not understand it, it is not meant for you. Find something else to nitpick about, okay?
I am not a "they" and I posted it because it is in fact newsworthy.
You may wish to ignore current events. I do not.
It is newsworthy, but that is not why you posted it. We can read at other message boards why it was posted.
I posted it because it is newsworthy and nobody else posted it.
Period.
Sell that story to the WPPFF crowd, I, nor many others, are not buying it. The writing is on the wall, or board, so to speak.
Upset the article got posted, hm?
Interesting.
Thanks for posting this.
You're welcome.
Other message boards? Why are you promoting other message boards here?
Not at all. I just wish someone else had posted it instead of a member of the WPPFF crowd.
However, please don't try to change the subject. It is still a fact that you posted it to rub salt in the wound and then run back to the WPPFF crowd on another message board to make fun a freepers and how they react to the news.
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