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."
"FLorid" law indeed. "SHE MUST PUSH UP DAISIES!"
(Time for a little humor on a "grave" subject)
I am your conscience, coming back to haunt you after you strangled me to death in 1990.
I am worried about what 3 days without water will do to her. It worries me a lot.
The longer the time between incompetency and the decision to "pull the plug", the more one needs to be wary. If I had a suggestion for changing the law it would be to consider appointing a legal guardian for such issues when the spouse has been effectively separated for 5 years. This would allow for most family members to make these hard descions while protecting others from spouses whose lives have changed.
"Pity that so many cards have been played, with so many asleep at the switch, including myself, that now the king on the chess board is close to check mate, and it is probably too late. That is a shame."
"IF" this inhumane torture of one, wakes up enough people then this gal did not live in vain. However, I have not given up faith, cause if this gal wanted to die so badly she surely has failed to exhibit that evidence.
If she just lies there, probably little.
Both ignorant and dishonest and amusing himself as well with all of this.
I think there's enough blame to go around Theodore, but I think in the next few days we'll see a complete turnaround and Terri will have her tube re-inserted. There is so much "new" information coming out that I didn't know about this whole horrible affair and I think the more the public finds out, the more outrage we'll see and things will come out for the better. Stay tuned.......*~*
Listen, I don't care whether Terri was a muslim or a catholic. Nobody has shown any convincing evidence that religion has a darn thing to do with this.
I don't know whether Terri is aware or not. If you listen to the Terri crowd, she's a talking encyclopedia. If you talk to the other side, she's brain dead. Snippets of movies don't mean jack. Anybody can edit anything today to portray anything they want.
And if you don't trust your spouse to make decisions for you when you can't, you either shouldn't have married him, or you should have set your wishes out where other people could look at them and decide.
I think Terri deserves another examination and a determination based on that, but I deeply resent Congress telling me that my wife didn't say what she said unless I can somehow prove it.
Bottom line: slavery was ended by amending the Constitution, not because a judge ordered it. It has no relation to judicial activism.
Me too, though dont expect the Pharisees to give a rip.
But not all of us have been asleep at the switch which is why the frustration level is so high. The editors don't publish my letters concerning Terri Schiavo and the courts, my Congressman could care less, the Presidents comment line knows my comment before I make it and my donations to her legal fund seem so damn fruitless.
Ah sh6T!
I think a husband should be able to be a stand iin for medical decisions which are legal and that usually means withholding treatment which would prolong life of a suffering terminal person.
I do not believe in starving people and do not believe it is as common as people assert. I am referring to unnecessary breathing machines, artificial prolonging of life or withholding of pain medication.
I do believe that in terminal cancer, pain medication is given not only for comfort but for shortening life. I have seen it done regularly. And I believe a spouse should be able to make the decision to do so.
Starving and withholding fluids are inhumane.
Hey where did you find room at all in your philosophy for God? Weren't you railing at him some time back about some infant suffering misery for a short time before eternity? If you can get mad at God Himself about that, why not get mad at some human judges about Terri being made to suffer?
I agree that your position is respectable, though I would try and keep myself and my relatives alive as long as possible.
But you are right, slow starvation over a period of weeks is not humane - it is an outrageous affront to any fomr of civilization.
Can anyone name any other barbaric civilization that did this to an innocent person; starving them to death when they had relatives willing and able to feed them?
Not even Stalin or Hitler did that!
This whole thing is so blastedly frustrating! (Can't "someone" just get the Jesuits to go in & kidnap her, or something?)
Because he is infatuated with seeing innocent people suffer and die as long as they are not someone he cares about?
I only take orders from God.
Fine, go down there. Do as you say
send in the people.
Subvert the rule of law. That's a real conservative action. I have never in my life seen so many willing to throw away anything and everything that this nation of states stands for just for one situation that will never get better. Maybe she did say she wanted to be kept alive, maybe she didn't. You don't know that, I don't know that. But I doubt when she said that originally she was thinking she would be kept like this for 15 years. Before you continue in your high road fight ask yourself this. Would you want to be kept in this situation for God knows how long just so your family could come visit you for an hour or so a week and that the lives of your loved ones would be held in stasis for close to two decades now?
As for your apparent disdain for the Constitution and the limitations it is supposed to put on the President, I know this may come as a shock to you but the National Guard you wish to call out, to apparently arrest anyone following a judicial order, just doesn't work that way.
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