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."
So you want a simple law. I will agree, if I can write it. If you agree let us move on. It seems obvious that Judge Greer agrees with you,...he made the law and is the executioner also.
Everyone I know off this site has said the same thing to me for years when discussing this.
"For God's sake don't let them hook me up with tubes if something happens to me. Just let me die."
I don't know a single person who doesn't have a Living Will saying just that.
So9
This is devestating.
DeLay better be able to deliver, but I fear his mouth is writing checks his "seat" can't cover.
Don't tempt me. I just posted on another thread that the fact that there's all this soapbox standing pontificating going on today, even from Tom Delay and even from Pres. Bush, and where were these people weeks ago when something could have been done? I'm sure everyone thought SOMEone was going to step forward and stop this gruesome parade. But no. Today is a monument to failed political processes, colossal cowardice, lack of moral leadership, lack of will, and fecklessness on the part of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches at all levels of government. I'm in favor of burning the whole worthless structure down and starting from scratch.
Why didn't you argue that since Bo Griz tried to kill himself that these folks are also trying to bring in the "right to die" people so they can save Terri?
Now that'd be a full-circle argument that'd put you in the ranks of the Liberal big boys.
Then you could start chanting "Osama Bama" all day, ad fit right in.
Where did I do that? I am arguing the law and state-versus-federal jurisdiction here.
I wish that the Florida Legislature had addressed this years ago, that Michael Schiavo had divorced Terri and gone on with his life.
You are advocating that we simply bend the law to suit our desires. I won't be a party to that, because, should it prevail, that bending will come around against what you and I want, some day.
I love you like a brother, but you are imputing motives to me that I do not have, and I resent it. Good night.
You are spot on regarding linkspur, and you might as well toss in neocon poobah and SO9 too.
You're an idiot. Is that you're criteria for the state executing citizens? And the state makes the decision pal. You're just not smart enough to understand the courts holdings. When they come for you and your "nine" call somebody else.
Because this isn't about hypotheticals. This is about a living, breathing human being (as oppposed to the family pet who has more protections)! I'm curious as to have to explain that to you! As I said, Michael has a live-in girlfriend and two children by her. That is not "typical" and you cannot use that in your "hypothetical" argument!
> 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." <
So much for State's rights. Didn't conservatives used to believe in those?
Why didn't the House just sign off on the Senate Bill? Why did they adjourn? I really don't get it. As I have posted elsewhere, it is just a buy time maneuver to an end that does not appear within reach, but that is another matter.
It's a shame that adultery is no longer a crime. He killed his marriage when he entered into another relationship with another woman. Most certainly with the first or maybe the second child.
Greer is aparty, lol, though not summoned himself. He is interfering with the appearance of a subpoenaed witness, you dolt.
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Would you kindly stop ordering people around? You do nothing but post drive-by insults. I haven't seen one bit of useful information, good or bad, from you all night.
It was his bigotry that led him to the exactly opposite conclusion in the case of Judge Moore. The contradiction doesn't matter to him because he will always err in favor of opposing the hated "religious right."
Terri can't respond if she's dead. Greer ordered her murder to begin. Witness tampering. Kind of like he put a hit out on her.
I have NO idea; and where have they been for the last year?
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