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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There ya go, bashing the troops again.
;)
Why are you guys commenting on people looks and not their character? That is what 2nd graders do. It is really mean of you and your small group to do that to someone.
I don't personally know the person you guys are referring to but it is really mean and hateful, so knock it off.
LOL
Laugh all you want, I could care less. But knock off the personal stuff about people's looks.
Judge someone by their character not the cover of the book.
Knock off your own crap.
I have NEVER posted about someone's looks. That is the lowest place you can go and only shows how petty your small group is.
Pathetic!
Neither have I.
You completely (as is your way) distorted my admittedly hilarious post.
Now go back to trying to stop the constant ringing in your head.
Nice spin. Not buying it.....
You are not the first one of your little group to make comments to Bykrbayb.....so please pass the word that they need to knock if off.
LOL
Many of the 'big dogs' see the futility of arguing with 'whackjobs'.
LOL! Ya, that's it!
Like I said, that ship has sailed.
sw
Well, now you're older.
You know exactly what I am talking about. Quit talking about how people look. It is very 2nd grade. Judge someone by their character, not the cover.
We can't judge people's character on the net. They tend to be a bunch of lying cowards. All you can do is judge what they say.
sw
Keep your religious dogma out of the political process.
Not everyone subscribes to your brand of Christianity.
Eric Rudolf also claimed to be a Christian from "flyover country".
heh heh
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