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."
If you don't think it is a matter of "had to" then you have never done it to a loved one. It is unimiginably hard. I had given my father my word many times that I would do it when the time came, and I kept faith with him. It wasn't something I chose to do.
So9
I don't think withholding food and water happens commonly as the guy upthread says. I have consulted in nursing homes and hospitals for thirty years and have never seen it done. I have seen feeding tubes not inserted at the request of families of people with severe dementias and no hope of recovery but never have I seen food and water withheld. Even with no feediing tube they use hyperalimentation via IV and they give sips of water. I have never ever seen anyone starved to death.
If the purpose is to kill her, why do they not go all the way and give her a lethal injection. That is the intent so why not do it? The very same people don't want to give lethal injections with death penalty. But they will starve a woman. No human deserves that.
Your circles travel prepared, eh?!
Uh, I think I have... and I agree with the judges who have agreed that she should be allowed to die. Just because I do not agree with you does not mean I am "uninformed". Thanks
I have nothing against decent Protestants who mind their manners.
I think you've had one too many Falstaffs, Joe. Nobody, anywhere, has said anything about the "Christian Right."
"And ask yourself one thing, I know if my wife had expressed a desire not to be artificially kept alive, I would do everything I could to try to fulfill her wishes... even if they were not written down."
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Hey, Blast_Master, take a look at the following, a statement from a girlfriend of the estranged husband:
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Regarding that alleged conversation [that Terri supposedly said she would want to die in such a situation] -- Cindy Shook said that Michael Schiavo said:
"How the hell should I know, we never spoke about this, we were young."
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:yzE5tNjKsYMJ:ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/628.shtml+schiavo+how+the+hell+should+i+know&hl=en
The only difference was there was no court fight. With the new law the House passed, many will end up in contested cases.
SO9
The Supreme Court gutted states' rights in a 1941 decision, saying that states have independent powers under the Tenth Amendment but that such powers are not greater than those of the central government. Let's face it: we are a big government country, and states' rights are out! For some reason though, liberals love states' rights in THIS case!
Terri has civil rights......civil rights cases are decided at the federal level. Always have.
BINGO.
The death camps in Germany were set up so that most of the people weren't killed by anyone in particular. Someone marched the people into the "showers", someone else dropped gas into them without having seen anyone go in (so they wouldn't have to think about the people in there). Someone else took the dead bodies out (so the people marching the victims in never would never see what happened to them).
THe Constitution forgot to include the phrase "the states have the right to kill innocent people".
Does he want fries with that?
No, you are the Pharisee, arguing for the death of a woman that does not deserve it so that the letter of the law maybe fulfilled.
But it is all pretense on your part anyway as you are trying to promote a culture of death, not the law.
You merely hide behind the law to see the death you long for.
And I am glad to not be a pondscum like you, and look forward to Gods Judgement Day when all will be made Just.
Sink has a certain lack of sympathy to some actions of certain fundmantalist Protestants as it pertains to the public square. So do I. That does not make him an anti-Protestant bigot; that is a smear. That just means he disagrees with some of them on some political matters. And this WASP agrees with him sometimes on such matters, including the matter of Judge Moore, who was rightly bounced, although I am near atheist, so I don't count.
Now I feel quite comfortable in saying that you are being less than honest.
There is NO QUESTION that he has had two children by another woman. That he has abandoned her is also not in doubt and you want to dismiss it all by saying "IF" and TOO BAD, LIFE ISN'T FAIR"?
Why do you have to pretend that there's an "IF"? Denying it doesn't make it go away.
Well, I guess it does for you and Greer.
I agree. But is the judge obligated not to hasten her death when she enjoys the protection of congress as a witness under supoena. I am curious about that.
What have we been told about that??
;-)
Nah, just sort of dumb I guess, but please don't let Judges in Florida know about that.
Now how did I know you'd say that?
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