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Rep Tom Delay Slams Senate Dems Boxer, Wyden, and Levin for allowing Terri Shiavo to Die.
Newswire | 3-18-05 | Tom Delay

Posted on 03/18/2005 11:32:52 AM PST by Thanatos

bc-DeLay-Schiavo DeLay: Terri Schiavo is Alive - This Fight is Not Over; House Continues to Work to Save Terri Schiavo

To: National Desk

Contact: Dan Allen or Shannon Flaherty,

202-225-4000, both of the Office of

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay

WASHINGTON, March 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today delivered the following remarks at a press availability on the House of Representatives' efforts to save the life of Terri Schiavo:

"It is now one o'clock on the East Coast, the time preordained by a Florida state judge to allow for denial of food and water to Terri Schiavo. This act of barbarism can be, and must be, prevented. The Senate has before it the Protection of Incapacitated Persons Act of 2005. This bill is the right thing to do. Unfortunately, they have chosen to adjourn rather than pass it.

"Those senators responsible for blocking the bill yesterday afternoon, Senators Boxer, Wyden, and Levin, have put Mrs. Schiavo's life at risk to prove a point - an unprecedented profile in cowardice. The American people are not interested in squabbles between Republicans and Democrats, or between the House and Senate. They care, and we care, about saving Terri Schiavo's life. The House bill will do that.

"Terri Schiavo is alive. She is not 'barely alive.' She is not 'being kept alive.' She is as alive as you or I, and as such we have a moral obligation to protect and defend her from the fate premeditated by the Florida courts. This is not over. We are still working, so are Mrs. Schiavo's lawyers, and so is the Florida state legislature. This is not over.

"To friends, family, and millions of people praying around the world this Palm Sunday weekend: do not be afraid. Terri Schiavo will not be forsaken."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: schiavo; terri; terrischiavo; tomdelay
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To: Howlin

30? Well, that is a bit too much...


81 posted on 03/18/2005 5:55:42 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas; GeekDejure
Can you not scroll past it?

Perhaps, but if GdJ would replace most of the {P} tags with {BR} it'd be easier and his post would look nicer too.

82 posted on 03/18/2005 6:19:09 PM PST by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
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To: supercat

True.


83 posted on 03/18/2005 6:20:11 PM PST by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: freekitty

I always call her "the female boxer". It kind of defines her.


84 posted on 03/18/2005 6:43:44 PM PST by RWCon (P)
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To: Northern Yankee; GeekDejure; Victoria Delsoul
My gosh... what cowards these people like Boxer, and company are.

Boxer is a died-in-the-wool, Socialistic, bedeviled, irrational, evil hag.

She has no morals, is a long term pro-death flag waver, and is hell-bent (like Greer, M. Shiavo, and Felos) on making sure Terri dies. She (as well as Wyden and Levin) knows exactly what she/they is/are doing when it comes to deliberately starving Terri to death.

Wild animals are not treated this inhumanely.

Liberal compassion? NOT. It's a lie, because "liberal" is too conservative of a term to describe these cretins who disragard life.

There is no way this is a "right to die" case...it's a "right to live" case.

Satan is very proud of his minions tonight. Very proud.

85 posted on 03/18/2005 6:44:07 PM PST by kstewskis ("Tolerance is what happens when one loses their principles"....Fr. A Saenz.)
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To: Defiant
The Feds vastly expanded the scope of their purview in the Roosevelt years through a misinterpretation of the "necessary and proper" clause of the enumerated powers of Congress, and through misuse of the interstate commerce clause to include anything that might indirectly impact interstate commerce (which everything does). The protection of the 14th amendment which extends to the lives of US citizens well predates that expansion.

When people were being locked up for 'feeble-mindedness,' wasn't this expansion used by civil rights groups and eventually the federal government to get forced sugical sterilizations stopped? The logic was, "this medical treatment was non-reversible."

Kind of interesting that HINO MS can have his wife starved to death (reversible?) but not surgically sterilized.

The law has its perversion of priorities.

86 posted on 03/18/2005 6:55:06 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: floriduh voter

I am shocked Judge Greer is still on the bench, in a murder spree that won't end with Terri.

======

Well... look at it this way. Whatever the outcome -- Terri lives or
Terri dies -- Greer is affected with a convenient excuse which is a
well kept secret: Greer is legally blind and can't even read the documents filed in his court !!! ;-))


87 posted on 03/18/2005 6:56:05 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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To: visualops

Do you think all of the comments we have recorded here could be used in court as evidence of "what we would have wanted" if we don't have a living will?


88 posted on 03/18/2005 7:03:18 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: Thanatos

If I remember correctly, 'thanatos' is Greek for 'death'. A little weird for a thread like this.


89 posted on 03/18/2005 7:17:42 PM PST by expatpat
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To: kstewskis; Northern Yankee; NYer
My gosh... what cowards these people like Boxer, and company are.

People like Boxer and company are against life, and as result of their vicious circle of politics the ones who seem to suffer the most are the innocent. Whether it is their relentless support for abortion and now euthanasia... or sending back innocent children like Elian Gonzalez to live under the dictatorship of a murderering tyrant --if nothing else they are consistent.

90 posted on 03/18/2005 8:05:09 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: supercat; rwfromkansas
Sheeesh... the things that I do just for meowing little kitty cats...

What? No complaint about all the clanging exclamation points ???

The 23rd Psalm --- Translated to Terri's Present Reality !!!

The Lord is Terri's Shepherd --- That's Relationship !!!
She shall not want --- That's Supply !!!
He maketh her to lie down in green pastures --- That's Rest !!!
He leadeth her beside the still waters --- That's Refreshment !!!
He restoreth her soul --- That's Healing !!!
He leadeth her in the paths of righteousness --- That's Guidance !!!
For His name sake --- That's Purpose !!!
Yea, though Terri walk through the valley of the shadow of death --- That's Testing !!!
She will fear no evil --- That's Protection !!!
For Thou art with her --- That's Faithfulness !!!
Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort her --- That's Discipline !!!
Thou preparest a table before Terri in the presence of her enemies--- That's Hope !!!
Thou annointest her head with oil --- That's Consecration !!!
Her cup runneth over --- That's Abundance !!!
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow Terri all the days of her life --- That's Blessing !!!
And she will dwell in the house of the Lord --- That's Security!!!
Forever --- That's Eternity !!!
Congressional Subpoena --- That's Deliverance !!!
Face it ---- The Lord is crazy about Terri !!!
Otherwise --- Why else would He continuously deliver her from
the evil hands of her attempted murderers ???

91 posted on 03/18/2005 8:08:25 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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To: kstewskis; Northern Yankee; Victoria Delsoul
Radio host Michael Savage sums it up properly ---

"Liberalism is a dangerous mental disease" !!!

.

92 posted on 03/18/2005 8:18:58 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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To: GeekDejure

I totally agree with that.


93 posted on 03/18/2005 8:22:27 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul
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To: GeekDejure

94 posted on 03/18/2005 8:27:16 PM PST by kstewskis ("Tolerance is what happens when one loses their principles"....Fr. A Saenz.)
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To: Anybody

I wonder what Judge Greer had for dinner tonight?


95 posted on 03/18/2005 8:33:19 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Northern Yankee
It is not cowardice we're witnessing with the democrat obstruction regarding Terri's unalienable right to LIFE. Think: what will the implications be for the alive unborn who are proven to be even more cognizant than Terri has been shown to be? ... The democrat party has staked their future on protecting the serial killing euphemistically called 'choice'. In this case, it is Michael Schiavo's choice, his liberty and pursuit of happiness free of a disabled wife, that is primary to the democrats, for if this disabled woman is protected from being killed, then the entire notion of a right to slaughter aware unborn alive children in late term aborticutions the democrats have defended on the grounds that a woman's health (read choice or mental satisfaction or avoidance of responsibility to a child) is at risk of being exposed for the insane agenda it is. This 'husband' is in a longterm adulterous affair with two children by his consort and has spent the funds awarded by courts for the therapy for Terri ... and the money has been spent in so many ways that have nothing to do with therapy for Terri with the blessing of Judge Greer and the Floriduh judiciary. In a not so subtle way, this determination to put Terri down on the grounds that she hasn't a 'worthy LIFE' is directly connected to the democrat party agenda of abortion on demand.
96 posted on 03/18/2005 8:44:32 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: eccentric

No.


97 posted on 03/18/2005 8:46:56 PM PST by visualops
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To: kstewskis

Dammit... I tried and tried and tried again, but no success.

I can't get my big fat ugly head through the neck hole !!! ;-))


98 posted on 03/18/2005 8:48:12 PM PST by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!!)
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To: MHGinTN

These 'quality of life'/'right-to-die' arguments are a further push towards euthanasia and eugenics.


99 posted on 03/18/2005 8:52:21 PM PST by visualops
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To: kstewskis

"Liberal compassion? NOT"

It is not liberalism, it is cold leftist statism. What the MSM/Gramsci Marxists call liberalism. It has nothing to do with classical liberalism, and nothing to do with what Dennis Prager considers to be liberalism (JFK, Humphrey, Scoop Jackson).


100 posted on 03/18/2005 9:19:00 PM PST by Fred Hayek
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