We've been looking for an excuse to impeach an activist judge, that while in so doing, would also be politically popular.
...And to that end Judge Greer has played the predictable fool.
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."
Balogna. Her parents and friends have shown she was a practicing Catholic. That goes toward her views on removing food and water from disabled persons.
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.
What you have just described is reasonable doubt which should accrue toward the side of life. Very simple.
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.
This is ridiculous. Doesn't deserve comment.
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.
Yeah, well if you had another gal, two kids by that gal and a million dollar trust fund waiting for you if your wife was starved to death, I would hope somebody wouldn't take you at your word.
But, you are assuming Michael is the husband she knew and trusted 18 years ago. And he is not. She is not able to say that but I suspect his new girlfriend and two children might make her think that perhaps he was not acting in her interests.
Better the subversion of inhumane law than the subversion of the moral foundations of our civilization. And yes, that is indeed extremely conservative.
You are right, of course........
I've said it before. I am younger than the Schindlers and less apt to suffer fools easily. I don't say this to denigrate them, they are older and trying to do things through the courts. I have no more faith in Americas courts. None. If it was my daughter she'd already be out of the state of Florida.
It sure looks that if the Schindlers got Terri, Terri would be attended 24/7 and their lives would be anything but a joyless "stasis."
It is frustrating when one sees across the River Styx, while too many of the rest of us are blind, and then witness the actual crossing into the abyss. I know the feeling. It is awful. One feels so helpless. Our journey on this mortal coil is attended by much frustration and unhappiness. But we must and do carry on. As some posted noted, Terri's probable death may well not prove to have been in vain. It has sensitized many of us, including myself, to this issue, who unliked you, needed sensitizing. We must endeavor to avoid it happening again.
Have a drink. It's what I'm doing.
You are a bit behind the news, Servant - oh, Servant. A young woman woke up last month after 19 years of being in a vegetative state. And they do not know why or how - it just happened!!
Does anyone know how much money is left? And who is paying her extra bills from hospice.
What nobody has pointed out is that as soon as she goes a day or two and starts to look distressed, the usual course of action from hospice is to sedate her with morphine or tranquilizers. I have seen hospice do this with terminal cancer patients. It hastens death by suppressing respiration and usually the person goes from a respiratory ailment. It happens very very quickly. It looks like relief of suffering but it is really euthanasia. And relatives do not complain. they do not want to see the people they care about suffer.
That would be a mistake I am not likely to make.:-} My drinking/fighting days are over.
Now I go to the basement and hit the heavy bag.
My daughter had an operation this past Thursday.
She was in serious pain when she was taken to recovery and it took them about 30 minutes to give her pain killer sufficient o relive her pain.
I held her hand the whole time and stroked her hair till she finally fell asleep.
For a moment, as she lay with her face up in the air, pale from the operation and completely relaxed, I imagined her being Terri. I didnt try to invision this, it just came to me unbidden.
I have no more patience with these evil slime who want to keep Terris parents from giving her the care she deserves as a human being made in the image of God.
No parent should have to live through what the Schindlers have had to live through.
Yes. Very good.
You Sir/Madam do not know the meaning of "troll"; check out my handle, and for God sake slow down on them Screwdrivers!
As if he could care less about veracity when it comes to his entertainment.
Well, she's a little of both, but somehow the language has never evolved a word for woman [other than the wife] with whom a married man openly cohabits, probably because the notion that a man could openly cohabit with another woman and remain married would have been unthinkable.
Not much point in blowing your wheels over postings on a message board, though - nobody here put her there, and at the end of the day, nobody here has the power to extract her either.
Are you serious? The husband, the sister and brother in law all claim to have heard it and that's good enough for a life and death decision? Hearsay like that, accepted by any judge should be grounds for their removal. If she told these people, if it was so important, why wasn't it written down?
We revert back to erring on the side of life. That's what a judge is supposed to do.
We've been looking for an excuse to impeach an activist judge, that while in so doing, would also be politically popular.
...And to that end Judge Greer has played the predictable fool.
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