GOP leaders unlikely to pursue new avenues to keep Schiavo alive

kansascity.com ^ | Wed, Mar. 23, 2005 | JEFF ZELENY

[Trust but Verify]

add me to the list of the duped. It's the law. Don't like the law, work to get it changed.

[Howlin]

If they don't, the Republican party will split. The pro-life Christians will have been definitively betrayed and, demoralized, they will sit out the next election, or vote for a new "Pro-life party" or the like.

It's already split away; take a look at the polls; the vast majority of conservatives in the GOP do NOT approve of what Congress did.

And people who sit out get what they deserve, nothing.

[Trust but Verify]

But those nurses SWORE they were telling the truth! That means we have to believe them, you know. Besides, whatever bad things are said about Michael we are compelled to believe.

[Shermy]

It's mass hysteria fed by nuts and vultures circling around the parents.

That nurse was nuts. Had conversations with Terri? Sheesh.

[Howlin]

I have a feeling that Terry has been doing the stirring for the last week or so.

BTW, he is now "the" official spokesman for the Schindler family. *Rolling my eyes*

[GOPcapitalist]

add me to the list of the duped. It's the law. Don't like the law, work to get it changed.

An unjust law is unfit to stand. The law killing Schaivo is unjust, therefore let it be damned.

[GOPcapitalist]

Besides, the Florida legislature DID change the law two years ago to protect Schaivo, so you cannot claim that a change in the law has not been attempted. The judicial thugs on the Florida Supreme Court threw it out. Thus they have not only upheld an unjust and therefore illegitimate law - they have also blocked an attempt by the legislature to make that law just, thereby sustaining the original unjust law.

[Trust but Verify]

What is unjust about it? Don't you think this and similar laws are applied almost daily all over the country? What kind of law would you have? Where the government gets to make the decision for the family?

That's not America.

[Mark in the Old South]

RE: "President Bush and congressional leaders said Wednesday they had exhausted their options and could find no new political avenues to prolong the life of Terri Schiavo"

I am not surprised the GOP "can not" (translation: will not) do more. I would have been surprised if they had done something to give Terri her Constitutional rights.

Hearings on the abuses of the Judiciary - not gonna see um.
Cut staffing budget to the Courts - not gonna see it.
Redraw Federal districts to make their jobs less secure - nope not gonna happen.
Impeachment of the worse offenders - your kiddin me right, not gonna, not now, no not never.

To do any of these things (all within the Constitutional power of the GOP controlled Congress) would remove the political cover they value so highly.

Judicial Tyranny and the murder of Terri Schiavo during the GOP watch. But the Social Security Crisis has been averted

[Drango]

A CBS News poll released Wednesday showed that 82 percent of Americans believe neither Congress nor the president should have intervened. And among people who describe themselves as evangelicals, more than two-thirds of respondents said Bush and lawmakers should stay out of the case.

Word up!

[BCR #226]

Sorry, Greer disallowed statements from nurses and doctors stating that Terri could respond to therapy as well as other statements... On top of that, once the possibility of abuse came into the picture, the whole situation was changed. If he is allowed to succeed, due process is done.

Mike

[GOPcapitalist]

What is unjust about it?

The fact that it violates the principle of a double effect and sanctions error other than that on the side of caution.

Don't you think this and similar laws are applied almost daily all over the country?

The scope of injustice no more makes its act just than the scope of abortion makes it anything other than killing.

What kind of law would you have? Where the government gets to make the decision for the family?

Four out of five most immediate family members, all of them Schaivo's blood relatives, were completely excluded from the decision process. Thus the "family" you claim to have made this decision is in reality one single person: Michael Schaivo.

[Howlin]

Have you seen that poll? I'd like to see it.

[ambrose]

The guardian appointed by Jeb Bush, pursuant to that law, said she should be allowed to die.

[Antoninus]

Overreach?

No surprise you're down on this. The Ruskies practically invented death by starvation for political purposes, after all.

[onyx]

That is/was Wolfson?

[hobbes1]

No. Lack of Cojones.


THe simple fact is, the Branches of Government are COEQUAL.

The Executive of Florida, OR the United States, should EXECUTE THE LAW AS THEY SEE FIT, and MAKE THE COURTS Sue them.

SCOTUS would be forced to Rule, or by their inaction Let Terri live.Whcih would still be a ruling.

[Antoninus]

It's already split away; take a look at the polls; the vast majority of conservatives in the GOP do NOT approve of what Congress did.

You know quite well that these "polls" are utterly bogus--they are push polls conducted on an ignorant population by the pro-death media.

Want a real indication of where the base of the party stands on the issue? Look at the various FR polls--practically all of them show an 80%-20% vote in favor of the various efforts to save Terri.

[Destro]

The judges acted in strict accordance to the law - they followed Flrida law. This is in fact NOT a case of judicial activisim.

[OldFriend]

I called Frist's office this morning and suggested he get himself home from New Hampshire and take care of getting the President Judge's confirmed.

The guy tells me Frist is home for the Easter holiday.

Told him that he seemed to have time to do a medical diagnosis via edited videotape and time to go to New Hampshire to campaign, too bad he had no time for the job he has.