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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You are without a clue. Rhetoric doesn't make an argument.
There was no violation of the Constitution. There was no conspiracy by the ENTIRE judiciary to violate the Constitution.
Are you aware of just how crazy such contentions sound?
It wasn't supposed to be a comeback, just a statement of fact justshutupandtakeit. Didn't anyone ever explain to you that conceit is unseemly?
You better believe it.
There was no "murder" nor a "forced starvation" death. Death had been delayed for over a decade without any result. It was time to stop pretending.
What? There was a murder? I must have missed that charge.
Bump!!
Conceit is not the issue here. Overblown rhetoric and the unwillingness to face facts are.
1. Who pays?
2. How do you allocate limited resources?
3. If the family of a PVS patient cannot afford her care, do you think the government (i.e., the taxpayers) should pay for it?
4. If so, are you not, in fact, advocating socialized medicine?
5. In socialized medicine, who ends up making decisions on care, and the allocation of limited resources? That's right, government bureaucrats.
Like it or not, whether healthcare is government-run or private, there are finite resources. There are only so many dollars to pay for care. Decisions will be made -- by family, by insurance companies, or by the state -- as to how to allocate those resources.
I think that a small percentage of people live in an alternate universe from the rest of us.
What would you call it? "Dying with dignity"?
Judicially sanctioned extermination?
No, your point can only be argued if you call people nazis and death cultists and that they should wear a swastika. Which is why so many people are put off by the tactics of your side when it comes to making an argument. Hyperbole, invective and rhetoric are no substitution for logic and reasoning.
That is their MO, keep calling it murder and maybe everyone will believe it. Saying it don't make it so.
You have no idea what you're talking about. She was not a vegetable and over 33 doctors swore to that. Mentally she was at the level of a severely retarded person.
And even if someone is deemed a "vegetable" there is no conclusive scientific evidence that states he or she can never come back to life. There are known cases where those classified as brain dead did in fact recover, with some today living normal lives.
It's not our duty to kill anyone because the justshutupandtakeits of the world think it's their time and what they would have wanted anyway.
What else do you call it when one intentionally cold bloodedly starves to death a human who is brain damaged but with a healthy body?
It's not "letting her go" or "dying with dignity".
And, of course, as you know, this is my opinion.
I want to see Schivao, Greer, Felos and any one else involved in the death of Terri to pay legally. Forfeiture of their freedom for life for this crime against humanity.
Yes, repeat a lie 27,534 times and it always becomes true, in a BS sort of way.
I don't recall the exact number used in "A Brave New World".
But we have definately exceeded it here on this forum.
Do you think the FL legis. will listen to me?
My phone bill is awfully high. They haven't listented to me in the past.
Wouldn't Judge Greer look better in orange, than in black though?
If you were to have followed this case you would know she was not PVS. That is what ONE doctor diagnosed. This same doctor diagnosed another patient a policeman who is now walking and talking.
Who are you to decide the worth of anyone?
This WAS a case of JUDICIAL MURDER.
Tom Delay should have said the things he said. The GOP should have backed him 100%
READ the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and then get back to me. I'm embarrassed for you.
If you don't want to be compared to the Nazis or to Hitler then why do you insist on advocating their beliefs and practices?
I didn't call anyone a Nazi as such but said that they shouldn't be upset to be called one when they clearly advocate some of the most heinous crimes of the Nazis and Hitler.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain Sun, it's all smoke and mirrors.
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