US House of Rep. in an Extraordinary Sunday night Session [Schiavo] (Bush Signs Schiavo bill)

[FoxPro]

This is an unprecedented session. The Congress is meeting to save one persons life (in real time).

The only reason the Democrats are agreeing to this is that they don’t want to be known as the party that killed Terri.

This is American history happening before your eyes.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I saw the original House bill (HR 1332). It was riddled with all sorts of damaging precedent.

[Just mythoughts]

There is nothing in these words that accuse you of being a murderer.


"Uh, well, that response was to be expected."

You have the nerve to accuse me of playing a victim.

"Truth hurts! LOL!"


Truth would be the last thing I would attribute to you. You keep digging your own hole.

[BigSkyFreeper]

You keep digging your own hole.

You have officially entered silliness, nite-nite.

[Just mythoughts]

"You have officially entered silliness, nite-nite."


Nothing 'official' about you either, no so clever one you been outed for seeking to incite.

[D-fendr]

I haven't seen the full house bill so I'll take your word on it.

I believe this is a case of a mortally flawed judgement by one judge in Florida.

Florida should have remedied it, but did not. I agree with the democrat who said the law basically says we have no confidence in the Fla. courts (mostly in this case a finding of fact by one judge), no confidence in the Fla. legislature (to rein in their judiciary or to pass legislation over their fiat rule).

But when this occurs and an innocent's life is ruled by the court to be taken... I don't know what you do, other than support the federal government's duty to protect the basic rights of the governed.

Like I said, I wish it hadn't been necessary, but given that it was, I think they did a good job with it.

Bear in mind, the facts still must be heard by another court. The outcome is not specifically determined by this law.

[CyberAnt]

No it's not - it was a transcript from a Larry King program. I read the transcript. How dare you accuse me of just making it up.

You're saying Terri doesn't want to live - how can you possibly know that ..??

[gentlestrength]

"I am sickened by the interference of the Fed"

You should instead be thrilled at how wonderfully our system works! We try to keep the Government out, but when needed, they're there. For you too.

[CyberAnt]

I didn't say that and you know it - you're just too busy right now having a pity party.

See ya later!

[D-fendr]

Someone just posted an article from the WSJ that echoes my points:

…how poorly Florida's legal system has served Mrs. Schiavo, and to explain the reasons that Congress is taking the extraordinary step of intervening in what normally would be considered a matter solely for a state's judicial system. …

Think of an analogy to the writ of habeas corpus. As John Eastman of the Claremont Institute points out, "We have federal court review of state court judgments all the time in the criminal law context." The bill before Congress essentially treats the Florida judgment as a death sentence, warranting federal habeas review. Mrs. Schiavo is not on life support. The court order to remove the feeding tube is an order to starve her to death. Moreover, Mrs. Schiavo is arguably being deprived of her life without due process of law, a violation of the 14th Amendment that Congress has the power to address.

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[CyberAnt]

You're deranged!

[CyberAnt]

And .. I don't believe I was speaking to you - or opining on anything you wrote - so you don't need to worry your pretty head about it!!

[Just mythoughts]

lol

[BigSkyFreeper]

or opining on anything you wrote

Well poo-poo-dee-doo. I was. This is a public forum in case you had forgotten.

[HannaUSA]

Terri's lawyer just arrived at the courthouse and is filing the motion to have her feeding tube put back.

[Just mythoughts]

YES!!!!!!!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Yep! FNC Alert.

[MeekOneGOP]

..... we've always had the hammer.

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[SeaBiscuit]

Excellent!

LIFE bump

[jonrick46]

"It is acting like a bunch of thugs." Somewhere I have heard that same rhetoric. Let me guess: George Felos. Since when is the defense of life thuggery? Are our police exempt from this description?

As for the five Republican Congressmen who voted against the Terri Schiavo Bill, I am sure they got tied up in the same Federalist issues you have been writing about in your posts. The 435 member House voted 203-58 for the passage of the Bill. There was 174 members who did not vote. Since I am not a Constitutional expert, I will leave the issue of state's rights to others.

I do remember on June 10, President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops, and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. on June 11, 1963, when George Wallace held his "stand in the schoolhouse door" to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Within days, it was convincingly reported that Wallace, fearing jail for defying a federal court order, had privately promised President John Kennedy that he would step aside if first allowed to make a defiant speech.

[MeekOneGOP]

203 to 58

Yay! :^D

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