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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Where did I refer to your interpretation in anything I have said? I was referring to the MSM's interpretation.
I think we should wait and hear more from Delay. Also, let's wait and hear what Rush has to say after he interviews Delay.
I really don't see how I was wrong about anything and believe me, I would own up to it if that was the case.
I agree!
"I want to give you an example of what is actually happening now.
At Marienthal there was a man about fifty-five years old, a peasant from a country parish near Munster—I could give you his name—who for some years had been suffering from some mental disease and has been cared for in the provincial clinic of Marienthal. He was not completely mad, he could receive visitors and was always pleased when his family came to see him.
About a fortnight ago, he had a visit from his wife and one of his sons, a soldier at the front, who was home on leave. The son was very devoted to his sick father. Their parting was not easy, for who could know if they would see each other again, for the son might well fall on the field of battle, fighting for his countrymen.
This son, this soldier, will never see his father again in this world because he has been put on the list of “unproductives”; one of the members of his family who went to see the father at Marienthal was refused admission and was told that by order of the Council of Ministers of National Defence the patient had been removed elsewhere, but no one knew where. An official notice would be sent to the family in a few day’s time.
What will this notice contain? Will it be like other, similar notices, that the man has died, that the body has been cremated, and that the ashes will be handed over on the receipt of money to cover expenses?
And so the son who is now at the front, risking his life for his German countrymen, will never see his father again because these same German countrymen have put him to his death.
The facts I have told you are absolutely true."
(from a homily by Clemens von Galen, Bishop of Munster, given August 3, 1941, at his parish church of St. Lambert’s)
The short definition of inalienable is "not transferrable" or "not assignable."
Terri's life was not transferred or assigned to anybody else.
The question of whether or not her death was proper is contentious. But best I can tell, most people posting here have their minds made up one way or the other as to the legal and moral propriety of that. The case will be (hypothetically) relitigated many times in law reviews, op-eds, and likely even in the halls of Congress.
It is what it is. I've got my mind pretty well made up too, FWIW.
I see you're still going about winning friends and influencing people (ha!ha!)..
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"Nothing in my statement was threatening, irresponsible, dangerous, inappropriate, intimidating, or reckless."
- Tom DeLay
I hope so. He has my total support and I am going to e-mail my support to him, as well as to the Republican Senate leadership and Bush and my representatives.
The Judiciary is totally out of control. They need to be defanged and taken down a peg. The people should make policy and laws through their elected legislators. It shouldn't come from some slimy unelected attorney sitting on a judicial bench. That is what the Founding Fathers thought.
There's been no such thing from me.
I've been quite open in my assessment, for which I make no apology.
We have a list of "unproductives"?
The Pentagon causes "unproductives" to disappear?
The government bars relatives from seeing their loved ones?
Oh, yes, I see - the "parallels" are "almost exact."
Trust me, CS, the Swatter is far more merciful than my "argumentation style."
Too bad. You used the brownshirt remark in response to what someone had said to me, therefore you were indirectly characterizing me as such.
Your assessment was outrageous and wrong.
How does the fact that George Greer was elected by an overwhelming majority fit into your analysis? Or do you just like that little "unelected attorney" rhetoric because you think it sounds good?
It may have a pretty face on it still, but that beautiful landscaping, such as was at the hospice, hides an ugly truth behind the walls.
Don't worry, if this is allowed to continue, the ugliness will show itself openly within a few short years.
After all, we're still at the beginning stages.
Still time to stop it, in fact, by simply forcing the elites to adhere to the principles in the Bill of Rights...
You're known by who you run with, rightly or wrongly. Human nature, and not without some justification.
I was directly refering to the Turkeys, though. Are you one?
Additionally, I said it in jest in response to another poster. You don't take yourself so seriously that you can't detect wry humor, do you?
FR is pro-life.
The exact parallel is that the handicapped person in both examples is DEAD, at the hands of their own government.
If you can't see that simple fact, you are being willfully blind.
By the way, your character shows when you quote me in your tagline out of context; sans the point that Americans have a tradition and a fundamental law preventing these kind of atrocities, while the Germans didn't.
But I'm not surprised in the least by your lack of character. It's been showing for a long time.
Posting on FR is running with the wrong crowd? Isn't that what you're doing?
Thought so.
My sense of humor is in top shape as well as my sense of fairness and right and wrong.
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