This is where our philosophies part company. One of the 'Bush brothers', our President, is called the most powerful man on earth, while his brother Jeb is the highest elected official in Florida. They CAN make a difference by intervening, while you and I cannot. Wishing to avoid a potential governmental conflict they chose not to use their full powers to stop Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I call it political cowardice, you may call it what you want.
I also call to your attention that the Congress, in an emergency session, mandated the judiciary to hear Terri Schiavo's FULL case again, to which they blatantly refused. The President and the House Speaker could have intervened right then and there and ordered Terri Schiavo into Federal custody because her civil and religious rights appeared to be grossly violated. But for political purposes he chose not to.
As for Jeb Bush, he commands the Florida State Police and National Guard, and some Constitutional experts say he has the clear authority to take (State) custody of Terri Schiavo. I would have been satisfied if he had truly given this a shot. But all we got was some half-baked story about the State Police attempting to get Terri but then backing down when the local cops said they would not let them. Which is a whole lotta b.s., if you ask me.
Regardless of how much we love Terri and recognize the way she is being shafted-she is still just one person. She is the tip of the iceberg of Judicial atrosities that has been crammed down our throats. Atrocities that will continue as long as such liberal, spitting upon the Constitution Judges are sitting upon what appears to be an extremely large majority of the Courts-especially Federal Courts.
The only way to strip the courts of liberal activist judges, is a few at the time, just like the liberals put them there. We only get to appoint judges if our people are President, and Governors, and the only way to get them confirmed is to have our people representing the majority in both the US Congress and the states congresses.
It is important that the Republicans continue to behave like the adults that they are and increase our numbers in Government over that of the development arrested demochildren. The President would have held the party up to ridicule, had he decided to forget the 45 million aborted and the 45 million abortions that would follow, if we don't appoint the judges for a long time to come, and possibly sacraficed everything for the sake of one person.
That my friend, is just the cold hard facts of life.
This is where our philosophies part company. One of the 'Bush brothers', our President, is called the most powerful man on earth, while his brother Jeb is the highest elected official in Florida.See also, from Ann Coulter:They CAN make a difference by intervening, while you and I cannot.
Wishing to avoid a potential governmental conflict they chose not to use their full powers to stop Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I call it political cowardice...
Democrats have called out armed federal agents in order to:1) prevent black children from attending a public school in Little Rock, Ark. (National Guard),So how about a Republican governor sending in the National Guard to stop an innocent American woman from being starved to death in Florida?
2) investigate an alleged violation of federal gun laws in Waco, Texas (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), and
3) deport a small boy to Cuba (Immigration and Naturalization Service).-- snip --
In two of the three cases mentioned above, the Democrats' use of force was in direct contravention of court rulings.
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As a practical matter, courts will generally have the last word in interpreting the law because courts decide cases. But that's a pragmatic point. There is nothing in the law, the Constitution or the concept of "federalism" that mandates giving courts the last word. Other public officials, including governors and presidents, are sworn to uphold the law, too.
It would be chaotic if public officials made a habit of disregarding court rulings simply because they disagreed with them. But a practice borne of practicality has led the courts to greater and greater flights of arrogance. Sublimely confident that no one will ever call their bluff, courts are now regularly discovering secret legal provisions requiring abortion and gay marriage and prohibiting public prayer and Ten Commandments displays.
Just once, we need an elected official to stand up to a clearly incorrect ruling by a court. Any incorrect ruling will do, but my vote is for a state court that has ordered a disabled woman to be starved to death at the request of her adulterous husband.
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President Andrew Jackson is supposed to have said of a Supreme Court ruling he opposed: "Well, John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it." The court's ruling was ignored. And yet, somehow, the republic survived.
If Gov. Jeb Bush doesn't say something similar to the Florida courts that have ordered Terri Schiavo to die, he'll be the second Republican governor disgraced by the illiterate ramblings of a state judiciary. Gov. Mitt Romney will never recover from his acquiescence to the Massachusetts Supreme Court's miraculous discovery of a right to gay marriage. Neither will Gov. Bush if he doesn't stop the torture and murder of Terri Schiavo.