The Midnight Coup (Los Angeles Slimes MEGA-BARF Alert)

Los Angeles Times ^ | 03/21/05 | Los Angeles Times Editorial

[goldstategop]

Republican leaders, eyeing an opportunity to appease their radical right-wing constituents, convened Congress over the weekend to shamelessly interject the federal government into the wrenching Schiavo family dispute. They brushed aside our federalist system of government, which assigns the resolution of such disputes to state law, and state judges. Even President Bush flew back from his ranch to Washington on Sunday to be in on what amounts to a constitutional coup d'etat. ....

Congress does act in other extraordinary cases on behalf of a specific individual, such as when it grants someone U.S. citizenship. But here, Congress is breaking new ground, trying to overturn a judicial decision by altering the Constitution's federalist scheme. This is the family law equivalent of the constitutionally banned "bill of attainder," legislation that seeks to convict someone of a crime.

[goldstategop]

LOL! Its a midnight coup against the kooks in this country. They can't stand that this is a country in which reason and respect for tradition prevails. The Left has to eliminate these things because above all, it hates itself.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[mother22wife21]

You do have a way with words.
:D

[beyond the sea]

The praying, chanting protesters outside the Florida hospital where this drama plays out are a hint that this is the new front in what began as the abortion war, an effort to translate religious dogma into law under the right-to-life banner.

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Pretty rash, nasty words.

[goldstategop]

I'm amazed any one would find THAT controversial. Here I thought we all agreed preserving life ought to be the highest of American values. Not according to the LAT editors, if that value happens to benefit the Republicans in '06.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[expatguy]

I never heard so many scumbag liberals invoke "states rights" as I have over the past few days.

LOL Segregation was a "state right" as well was it not?

Now they seem to think that it is a "state right" to take a disabled American citizen, a woman who is guilty of no crime, refuse to let her family see her, starve her to death and deny her the right to live.

Why Judge Greer and his cohorts are not being tarred and feathered as we speak is beyond me.

Sometimes I think this country is asleep at the wheel.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[beyond the sea]

ping

[goldstategop]

They've been aborting their voters for decades. Now they've decided the country needs to be aborted as well. There is a consistency to their infernal logic that has to be commended. When it comes to death, the Democrats DO stand on principle.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[goldstategop]

Agreed. They invoke exactly the opposite argument on behalf of vile murderers. But no one wants to point out the hypocrisy. Republicans are guilty of it. Democrats after all, are paragons of virtue.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[beyond the sea]

The ONLY REASON it happened at midnight was because of the Democrat party, whose rabid anti-life operatives decided to OBJECT in the middle of the afternoon to a vote.

Good point.

[MeekOneGOP]

ha!

The LA Slimes? Circulation? What circulation???

Congress does act in other extraordinary cases on behalf of a specific individual, such as when it grants someone U.S. citizenship. But here, Congress is breaking new ground, trying to overturn a judicial decision by altering the Constitution's federalist scheme. This is the family law equivalent of the constitutionally banned "bill of attainder," legislation that seeks to convict someone of a crime.

[goldstategop]

That's it! Its all those religious fundamentalists forcing their narrow views on the rest of America. I believe Kinsley said as much in today's editorial, to quote:

"[B]ut this case once again shows that some social conservatives are happy to see the federal government acquire Stalinist proportions when imposing their morality on the rest of the country."

To the Left, we're no better than mass murdering Josef Stalin. We're tyrannical and they're enlightened. We impose morality and they're apostles of freedom. That's the way they look down on the rest of the country. In their minds, they are our betterers and our place is to sit down and shut up.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Fresh Wind]

This is the family law equivalent of the constitutionally banned "bill of attainder," legislation that seeks to convict someone of a crime.

What crime has Terri committed? It sounds more like a Congressional pardon to me. A pardon of someone who has been sentenced to death for what she is, rather than what she's done.

[swilhelm73]

Hmm, seems the Slimes was singing a different tune a few years ago;

[ChadGore]

Re: coup d'etat.

As liberals continue to lie to themselves and others, it has become transparently obvious that the LA Times is a DNC screed sheet.

[goldstategop]

Ayuh. The Kool Aid crowd has finally gone off the deep end.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[TN4Liberty]

Yes, it is one of those sneaky coups that takes a majority vote in each house and the signature of an elected president. When you look at it, every elected Federal entity had to support this action. Hardly a coup.

[beyond the sea]

Talking about some untraceable GOP memo circulating The Hill Saturday to use the Democrat no votes on the Schiavo case Sunday, for political hay in 2006.

Yes, where is this memo? Not a bad idea to "use the Democrat no votes on the Schiavo case for political hay", but I heard a dozen people say it, where is the memo?

Didn't the Republicans produce a memo that showed the Dems./Rockefellar purposeful obstructing before?

[Fresh Wind]

[goldstategop]

Its not a crime. Any fair minded person reading the law will see that grants Terri's family standing to have their daughter's case heard in federal court. And unlike a bill of attainder, NO judgment is made on the merits of the dispute and Congress certainly didn't hand down a sentence. I guess its too much work to ask the LAT editors to go back and read the text of the law before rushing off with a half-ass editorial attributing nefarious motives to Republicans.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[DBeers]

Michael Kinsley has Alzheimers

Is this in addition to HIV/AIDS? /humor off

Every time I see him on television he appears progressively physically degraded -much like that hunk, Rock (I don't have AIDS) Hudson, did as he was succumbing to the disease...