Yeah. We need this guy....
Posted on 03/18/2005 4:32:07 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay pledged Friday to hold Florida state judge George Greer in contempt of Congress for ignoring a congressional subpoena for Terri Schiavo's testimony, saying, "No little judge sitting in a state district court in Florida is going to usurp the authority of Congress."
"The Congress will pursue this, if we have to hold him in contempt of Congress," DeLay told radio host Sean Hannity.
Pressed on whether he intended to hold Judge Greer in contempt, the top Republican told Hannity: "Absolutely, absolutely."
"We will do everything to enforce the power and authority of the Congress and no little judge sitting in a state district court in Florida is going to usurp the authority of Congress," he added.
Earlier in the day Judge Greer rebuffed the Schiavo subpoena, telling attorneys in the case, "I have had no cogent reason why the [congressional] committee should intervene." He claimed that the last-minute action on the part of Congress does not nullify years of legal proceedings.
But DeLay told Hannity, "This judge and the Supreme Court of Florida are well known to be liberal judges that have a different worldview and they're imposing their worldview on the law."
The top House leader said that "no sane person" could look at Schiavo and say she's in a persistent vegetative state.
DeLay called a lawyer for Michael Schiavo, who has pressed for years to have his wife starved to death, "the personification of evil."
We've been played by some very skilled spin doctors on this case.
Okay, knock it off. From my vantage point it is the REPS fighting to save Terri's life. I don't see the Dems out there. People are frustrated? Believe me, I am TOO. But don't dare tell me they aren't out there trying to help her. If people want to focus their frustrations focus them on the Dems that refuse to help, focus on the few Reps out there blocking legislation in the Florida Senate, focus on that judge. Encourage the Reps to fight and if you are in Florida drop your dinners and get to that hospital to support her.
Frankly I find it despicable that the people getting the most critisism aside from the judge and the husband are the only officials trying to help her.
I think that's the point.
States have the right to kill innocent people?
Yeah. We need this guy....
Frankly, I would. If our judicial system makes such heinous mistakes, we shouldn't be allowing it to make life and death decisions.
Frankly, I'm surprised I haven't been flamed.
let's stop pretending on this, "legal grounds" in this country are totally arbitrary given the conduct of the judiciary in this country. one day Lee Malvo is sentenced to death, the next day a court finds some new civil right for him to avoid it. one day a captured terrorist is being held by the military in a prison outside the US, the next day a judge rules that he has access to the US court system. one day gays cannot marry, the day after a judges ruling, they are marching down the aisle.
the conduct of the judiciary in this country is never going to change, and in fact will get worse, unless its challenged somewhere along the line. this may or may not be the case to do it, but if that day never comes, we are just going to sink into the abyss no matter whom we elect.
"Hammer of the Gods" is a good name for their judicial decrees.
[Christopher Reeves was still 'in there' unlike Terri.]
There is a great deal of evidence that Terri is still "in there" pal!
"Here is some of what Felos said in his book"
Unbelievable! This pro-death pseudo ethicist is truly a triple A sickola.
And we would be spending a whole lot less of our local, state, and federal budgets on jails and prisons.
I'm an atheist, and I find that remark offensive.
And your point is?
SO9
I guess we are in a holding pattern as it were, until Congress can find time on Monday to hash it out and top shelf whatever logs are jammed in the queue. I don't like the fact that the Legislative branch thinks it's got jurisdiction in the Judicial branch. Just like the nitwit DUmmies think the Judicial branch has all the credentials to do the job of the Legislative branch of government. These last few days, weeks, months and years have literally put government into a pretzel.
I must say, I completely agree. It's getting more and more ominous. We must pray, Pray, PRAY!
I think they made him mad.
"I wonder how many FReepers here demanding Federal action (marshals, subpoenas, contempt, etc) were a few months ago demanding the federal courts NOT involve themselves with the Alabama 10 commandments judge?"
Boy those 10 Commandments sure do get under some people's skin.
I'll never forget that for as long as I live. My hopes are that Elian someday will overthrow Castro and send him to hell.
Your "most Americans who like it that way" (aka the pollz) have not heard about any but an artfully constrained set of facts about Terri. They do not know about the looniness of Felon. They do not know about the belatedness of the "recollections" of HINO and the family and its timing with respect to his collecting insurance. They do not know what he promised to do for Terri and then reneged on. They do not know about HINO's adultery.
In other words, they don't know Jack.
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