Posted on 03/19/2005 6:03:33 AM PST by mathprof
Congressional leaders are playing a dangerous game with their intrusion into the hotly publicized fight in Florida over maintaining life support for a severely brain-damaged woman. With state legislative and court appeals being exhausted, the House and Senate began some grim one-upsmanship to stop the removal of the feeding tube from Terri Schiavo. She is the 41-year-old woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state for the last 15 years, with her parents contesting that sad diagnosis. They also challenged the careful decisions by Florida's trial and appellate courts, based largely on the testimony of her husband that their daughter would have chosen to die rather than live indefinitely in such condition.
Congress seized the issue in the closing hours of its March budget debate. After bungled attempts to grant federal court review of the case, leaders of the two houses blamed each other for Ms. Schiavo's potential demise. They then landed on the ghoulish gimmick of postponing removal of her feeding tube by subpoenaing her to a House hearing and inviting her to a separate hearing in the Senate. The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, said that criminal law protects witnesses called before Congress "from anyone who may obstruct or impede a witness's attendance or testimony."
After considering the issue yesterday, the state appellate judge presiding over the case ordered the removal of Ms. Schiavo's feeding tube to proceed, finding Congress's intervention created no "emergency" requiring postponement. No doubt this is not the end of this painful drama. Meanwhile we can only lament the Republicans' theatrical effort to expand their so-called pro-life agenda to include intervening in a case already studied and litigated exhaustively under Florida law. Congress's rash assumption of judicial power and trampling on established state and federal constitutional precedents in "right to die" cases is nothing short of breathtaking.
We are teaching the liberals some bad habits that may come back to bite us.
Just wait until Mumia is finally set to fry. On execution day a rogue House committee will issue a subpoena for him to testify to Congress regarding prison food.
How breathtakingly disgusting!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
At least Scott Peterson's death sentence will get an appeal.
They should apply this same death to all logic to all of the HIV/AIDS infected gays. None will survive inspited of hundreds of thousands of $'s spent on them each year once they start the death therapy.
Just stop the wasteful therapy on all HIV/AIDS patients. More money is spent each year on each patient getting expensive combo drug therapy that is being spent on Terri.
Our nation, and the world, has been gradually taken over by evil disciples of satan. Their takeover has been ponderously slow so as to deceive and condition us poor mortals so we are practically impervious to shock.
Our churches, by and large, have been undermined by satan's legions. Of course satanism, communism, socialism and homosexuality and the homosexual agenda are synonymous.
The larger percentage of our politicians and judges have taken over by these impious, immoral deceivers.
We can only take as much action as is humanly possible, but foremost we need to pray for the deliverance of our families and friends from this encroachment of satanists.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
And you think that they wouldn't do that regardless of what we do to save Terri?
Exactly. And, it was GOP showboating at its worst.
DeLay and Frist have known for six weeks that March 18 was zero hour. So what do they do?
They wait until March 17 to do something, when the media will be focused on their efforts.
And it's not going to work. This "subpoena" business was embarrassing, and futile.
The House should have passed the Senate bill, but DeLay was too insistent on having it his way.
Now, he may not get enough members back to even vote on a bill at all.
KMIA, NYT!
"What can I say? The NYT has sunk to a new low"
Once you endorse cutting heads off babies, you can't get any lower than that. All you can do is spread out, as the NYT is doing here.
DEMOCRATS FOR DEATH !!
The NYT is for Death also !!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
DEMOCRATS FOR DEATH !!
The NYT is for Death also !!
The NYT basically is saying "the law is the law", even though the law is murky and apparently incomplete in a case such as this.
Further, they accept the facts as those reported by the husband, rather than as reported by the parents and suggest that the Republicans' efforts are politically motivated.
I think a proper resolution of this case starts with determining what the facts are. Next, the law should be reviewed and any holes filled in by a legislative body, not the courts. Until those things are finalized, Ms. Schaivo should continue to be fed using the tube.
It is possible the facts and the law have been determined; however, it is not clear to me that they have.
The NYT: "America's Borg Paper Of Record." TM
George Orwell was against communism but he was all for letting communist rags hype an evil agenda and distort truths rather than being squashed out of existence.
I'm all for letting them write the final chapter on liberalism. Many libraries will keep archives of the NYeT-imes, it will be a good example for future generations of how wrong liberalism was.
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