[zarf]

The Republican Party is now the liberal party. What a joke.

Government spending through the roof and now micro managing a state/domestic issue.

We are witness a breathtaking philosophical shift in American politics..

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Government spending through the roof and now micro managing a state/domestic issue. We are witness a breathtaking philosophical shift in American politics..

I don't understand. What's different?

[freedomdefender]

micro managing a state/domestic issue.

It's not a state issue if federal constitutional rights are being violated. The US Supreme Court has said you need a patient's consent to withhold medical treatment. That's US Supreme Court FEDERAL constitutional law. Whether Terri gave her "consent" is hardly clear - - but Greer has proceeded as if she did. By authorizing her starvation - in fact, ordering it - without clear evidence of consent, he's violating the US Constitution. Or at least there's a credible argument to that effect - - - and hence it is a legitimate federal case.

You say the republicans are acting like democrats in trying to defend her constitutional rights. In fact, it's you who's acting like an old time democratic southern dixiecrat by saying state officials should be free to ignore federal constitutional rules with impunity.

[housewife101]

I must admit to not understanding why the federal gov't doesn't have the right to uphold."THE RIGHT TO LIFE,LIBERTY,AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS..." Somehow judges,instead of elected representatives, have the right to do whatever they want, whenever they want with no one to stop them.

THis is what concerns me-judicial tyranny.