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

Posted on 03/20/2005 6:03:40 PM PST by 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.


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KEYWORDS: 109th; deathlobby; democratssuck; demswantterridead; dirtyrats; euthanasia; hitlersheirs; libertarianssuck; murderinc; obstructionistdems; paartyofdeath; proverbs836b; rats; rinossuck; schiavo; schiavobill; shiavo; sorelosers; terri; terrischiavo; terrislaw; uselessmouths; wexler
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To: ohioWfan; Arthur Wildfire! March; PhilDragoo
A hearing has been set for 3:00.....

Thanks for the info and heads up.


3,041 posted on 03/21/2005 9:07:35 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: CobaltBlue
"Unconstitutional? Don't quit your day job."

" The 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution provide that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

" This bill gives the parents the power to initiate a brand new lawsuit in order to ensure that their daughter is not deprived of life without due process of law."

" De novo means, in this case, a new record."

Bumpin' that too, Blue.

3,042 posted on 03/21/2005 9:08:53 AM PST by Miss Behave (Man who fart in church sit in own pew.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

MeekOne! This is great news and an answered prayer for many. Still, some folks were playing god here.He doesn't like that crap!


3,043 posted on 03/21/2005 9:21:38 AM PST by uncleshag (----- FReepmail requests, please -----)
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To: PhilDragoo

Dear Lord, we continue to trust in You.


3,044 posted on 03/21/2005 9:23:28 AM PST by Libertina (Hey temporary Governor Christine Gregoire - don't get too comfortable in that mansion!)
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To: uncleshag
Amen!

bump! bump! bump!


3,045 posted on 03/21/2005 9:37:41 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Baynative

OMG! HOMOCIDE? Terry Shiavo is gay? Well, that changes my whole opinion on it...


;0)


3,047 posted on 03/21/2005 9:41:11 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Celibacy is a hands-on job.)
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To: Baynative

Well, I are not too gud wif da big werds. ;0)


3,049 posted on 03/21/2005 9:49:49 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks (Celibacy is a hands-on job.)
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To: gentlestrength
And we are supposed to go to the judge and have them know what laws are available, and apply them to our case?

Sure, and if the law has unintended moral consequences the proper remedy is to change it through legislation (rather then the judiciary). Often this happens with an anecdotal case that grabs the publics intention such as the current one.

The only constitutional question in this case is whether this is the right legislature. More properly the state should have jurisdiction over such particulars (such as having alleged "guardians" held to some common sense minimum standards to maintain their legal guardianship) ...however in this case the Federal legislature has the enumerated constitutional power to define the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, which they did not seem to step beyond. I don't see any dangerous "precedence" here. Heck, from a constructionist stand point I wish congress would exercise this power more often (such as limiting the federal judiciary from ruling on terrorist's appeals for habeas corpus).

3,050 posted on 03/21/2005 10:52:40 AM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: curiosity
The 14th Amendment explicitly gives Congress the power to pass all legislation necessary to prevent states from violating or failing to protect people's rights.

I think that's what the did in a narrow case here, the broader case, the house approach, will be debated later.

Further, they could make the law exempt from judicial review by placing it outside the jurisdiction of any court, as the constitution allows Congress to do.

I wasn't aware this was possible. Can't any law be challenged?

3,051 posted on 03/21/2005 12:19:55 PM PST by D-fendr
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To: Keith in Iowa
I should also thank the democrats who supported the bill. I do so now. I'm also saddened that the general public seems to be so incensed and by the delays.

I know legal procedures have to be followed. But sometimes saving a life should trump wasting all this time in the courts imo.

Another problem I don't have a good answer for.

3,052 posted on 03/21/2005 12:38:01 PM PST by Aliska
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To: maica; MeekOneGOP; devolve; Grampa Dave; potlatch; Wampus SC; wisconsinconservative
They will continue to spew hate, rather than look at themselves and
assess why Americans are turning away from the pro-Death party.

DEATH-O-CRATS
Death and Taxes--That's All We Got

3,053 posted on 03/21/2005 12:54:58 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo

Amazing how they automatically give themselves names, isn't it? SoreLoserman and now Deathocrats! Sooooooo fitting.


3,054 posted on 03/21/2005 12:56:18 PM PST by cubreporter (I trust and admire Rush. He has done more for this country than he will ever know. God bless him.)
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To: FoxPro

Does anyone know how to listen to view of tape of Terri and her father? I keep hearing about it but can't find it. Why isnt' it out there for all to see? Some people need to have proof and maybe this would make their decisions.


3,055 posted on 03/21/2005 12:57:48 PM PST by cubreporter (I trust and admire Rush. He has done more for this country than he will ever know. God bless him.)
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To: PhilDragoo

Thanks for the ping! For including me in the birth of a new word that will live forever!

See my new tagline.


3,056 posted on 03/21/2005 1:32:52 PM PST by maica (Ask a Death-o-crat: "When did you decide to support death in every situation?")
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To: stanz

I was wondering when one of them would pull a Linda Blair and have their heads do a 360 spewing out the pea soup!
They are evil incarnate.


3,057 posted on 03/21/2005 1:42:11 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: maica; MeekOneGOP; Smartass; devolve
Death-O-Cratic Oath: First do harm.

3,058 posted on 03/21/2005 1:44:17 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: cubreporter
DEATH-O-CRATS
LIFE'S A HILLARY AND THEN YOU DIE!

3,059 posted on 03/21/2005 1:48:43 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo
bump! bump! bump!


3,060 posted on 03/21/2005 1:51:56 PM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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