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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That triggers another possible statutory change that would impact the entire class of cases where the body is healthy, but the mind is not. The federal government can tighten its Medicare/Medicade langaue to prohibit "bootstrapping" of a terminal diagnosis. Any patient who dies from intentional dehyration and/or starvation being automatically ineligible for compensation from federal funds.
An exception can be made for patients who choose that manner of demise; but the language for choosing that demise can be set by statute.
By "bootstrapping," I mean the practice of concluding a patient is terminal because it is planned to stop feeding and watering them.
It is "beyond you" because you are accepting a distortion of what happened here combined with a misunderstanding of what the law is regarding such matters.
It will always be beyond those who believe this was a murder committed by a gigantic conspiracy.
However those who actually care about the law and know there was NO conspiracy gigantic or otherwise but just the ordinary court work done in the same way every day throughout the world find nothing here "beyond them." Except perhaps the actions of the Schindlers.
I agree that we are in a time of imperial judiciary. Congress has the power of impeachment too.
Who made you God?
You don't think the Schinders will be satisfied even if the autopsy shows there was nothing but water left in TS's head do you?
Nah, I know you don't since you obviously have the fanatics' number. They would just have one more evil doer to add to their conspiracy and claim her perfectly functioning brain was removed the night before by Michael.
It doesn't matter what the autopsy says. It doesn't matter what the DCF records say. Those are simply opportunities to expand the conspiracy.
Of course, those of us who have been around this campus for ages, know all about what FR's mission is...but YOU don't seem to understand that.
FWIW, I am pro-life, but I draw the line when it comes to bombing abortion clinics. I draw the line when it comes to calling for Michael Schiavo and his family to be murdered. I draw the line at opposing the death penalty.
So if YOU are Prolife ALL the way, then you must oppose the death penalty as well. I don't think FR ever made a mission statement about that....did they?
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AFAIK, all the laws tossed by SCOTUS, regarding abortion, have been state laws. That's the major point of the dissents in Roe, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, etc. That a court is taking on a legislative function, on an issue that is contentious to the public. Once judicially determined, the public debate is inflamed with no place left to settle it, short of Constitutional amendment.
Wrong. I studiously avoided this issue for months preferring to avoid the nastiness generated by the Schindlers' supporters. It was obviously going nowhere and looked to be a great danger to FR and conservativism because of their fantical ignorance. I was totally correct about that danger.
And yes involving more federal supervision over the thousands of cases like this which exist any given day would mean a vast increase in federal power especially the courts.
Your continuous demonstration of constitutional ignorance would be amusing if there weren't less discerning minds reading them and swallowing the crap contained within.
What could be more pretentious or arrogant than unqualified and self-designated "experts" claiming they know more about the laws than real experts advising the Bushes who were on YOUR side. If they can't find a legal loophole IT AIN'T THERE.
This case will likely produce some activity in Congress but whether it goes beyond yammering is doubtful once the hysteria dies down.
That is beyond doubt but impeachment cannot be for ideological or what the Founders called "political" grounds. It must remain solely for those guilty of falling away from "good behavior." Lord knows how that is defined now days.
I don't think my reply to you had anything to do with FR's mission statement. You may want to re-read what you originally posted and then my reply.
I think the big dogs you speak of are no longer considered such on FR.
I have been around a long time, long time lurker before I signed up. I get so sick of hearing that from "the usual suspects". Stop beating that dead horse.
I have never made any such claim. If I were though one of my first acts would be to enlighten you and thereby provide a great benefit for mankind.
A sad truth.
You may be right.
Many have argued that Congress cowardly allows the Courts to do things it does not have the guts to do.
I used to be opposed to the death penalty . . . but that when I was YOUNG AND STUPID!
I have no idea what could possibly motivate someone who calls themselves a conservative to come to the aid and comfort of Michael Schiavo and George Felos and their weird cult of death.
Your hubris is astounding.
Your suggestions of totalitarian impulses notwithstanding, eh?
The courts have said as much.
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