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.
thanks, I yield the balance of my time....
Okay.
I just watched an hour of this disgraceful charade and I am thoroughly floored.
On the one side you have Republicans arguing to simply save Terri Shiavo's life, while on the other side you have Democrats arguing that she should be killed slowly, mercilessly, and grotesquely by starvation and dehydration.
As much as I would love for this debate to be shown 24/7 in every living room in America for the next year, time is running out. I wish somebody would go and reinsert the feeding tube already. Just get it done.
Absolutely brilliant idea! When Hellery, who will try to morph into Mother Theresa by '08, starts her religious campaign tripe, the RNC should play exerpts from tonight's speeches and ask the voter if she could possibly be sincere.
>I'm trying to understand why the Democrats are so insistent in this case, and why Barney Frank is the House leader on this issue. I'm surmising that the slippery slope, as the Democrats see it, leads to AIDS patients.<
You could also argue that the precedent in this case could lead to the court pulling the plug on AIDs patients to cut costs, as with the elderly.
You'd think the AIDs lobby would be freaking out.
Thanks.
Tom Price - all state death penalties get a review in Federal Court. That is all they are asking here.
You have that right! If there are 18 Dem sponsors of the bill that was voted on Thursday, where are they tonight?
It is so wonderful to hear our Representatives talking about praying about the decision.
Her husband has dark motives.
Excellent. Thank you very much. Reading it now.
Dr. Tom Price is very well spoken.
Bawney filling time again.
For starters I really enjoy FR and have never not voted Republican, but I have to strongly disagree with what everyone seems to be saying here. Too many people are thinking emotionally (usually a trait we assign to Democrats) and not rationally. Somebody please cite a case where someone has been in a permanant vegatative state and come back after 15 years. This poor woman has been vegetative for 16 years with nothing more than the most basic of reflexive activities present (cardio, pulmonary, and nerve relfexes). It is sad and confusing for people to see color and breathing and a heartbeat and not understand that she is already gone. If I was ever in that state I've told those close to me to please let me go. There is no hope for her. Her husband has been an incredibly brave person in this whole terrible ordeal that I hope nobody is ever faced with.
I believe that Frank controls the time for the RATS. If he doesn't have speakers, he either has to speak himself or give up his minutes.
The more that he shows up speaking, the weaker the RATs' case. Few are idiot enough to want to be seen participating.
Sandy, I think I am wrong. I've been directed to this:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050320/ap_on_go_co/brain_damaged_woman_bill_1
I'd be interested in hearing your opinion of it.
Even without an MRI or a PET Scan, the CT Scan shows no such thing.
Polybius, M.D. (Radiologist)
Do we have a RADIOLOGIST on the board?..........135 posted on 03/20/2005 10:25:51 AM PST by Polybius
Nonetheless,the soundbite alone will provide good material to various talkshow hosts.LOL
Yes, the strutting, spitting poodle
That's what is so bizarre about this. A person brutally murders someone, admits to the killing, is sentenced to die, but gets an automatic appeal.
Teri is sentenced to die by starvation and has no right of appeal according to Judge Greer who should be thrown out of the Republican Party and the rest of the Party of Death.
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