Posted on 03/31/2005 8:05:44 AM PST by Pyro7480
President Bush will make remarks on the death of Terri Schindler (Schiavo) at 11:40 am EST.
helful=helpful
The ball has been dropped and they will not recover from this.
We did not see a President who is committed to making sure this is the last time the government prevents a mother from feeding her starving daughter. He should have rescheduled the WMD report with Chuck Robb.
BS. The President is entirely constrained by the Constitution and the laws of the land. To think otherwise is to hand him dictatorial powers -- and he most assuredly does not have them. He is not above the law.
either executive could have done almost anything he wanted,
That is scary. Would you grant a President Kerry or President H. Clinton that much power as well? Even FDR couldn't get most of his reforms passed (most notably, the National Industrial Recovery Act was declared unconstitutional).
What are you talking about. All I said was he had this on his schedule before Terri died. I was answering people back that wanted his comments to only be about Terri. The President had all these people waiting to hear what he said about the Commission on Intelligence which was the reason all those people were there.
President Bush and Governor Bush are very caring people and I would bet it hurt both of them when they heard the news.
Sorry you couldn't see what my comments were all about. The President still has the Government to run and as I said this WAS scheduled before she died this morning and yes he did make comments about the Commission following his comments about Terri which I thought were very appropriate.
What do you call the bill passed by Congress and signed by the President? Macaroni?
If the executive branch does not step in and enforce the Constitution when it is violated and ignored, who will?
Apparently they would and that is scary!
You expect the Florida State legislature to act with integrity to change state laws? Who's being ignorant.
If laws only have power if they come from state legislatures, why does Congress exist?
Have a nice lunch.
Why couldn't he have pushed to repeal the nutrition and hydration as medical treatments "law"? I bet he wishes he'd never signed it in the first place.
He is a hypocrite because????????????????
They followed the law of the land. We are a nation of laws, not a nation of do what you can get away with.
What law, specifically, permits him to stand-down law enforcement who have been overtaken by courts? What law, specifically, allows him to act in tandem with the U.S. Congress, to tell the courts their jurisdiction? What law, specifically, grants him powers above his Constitutionally-limited power?
SCOTUS justices have terms for life. Smacks of dictatorship to me. Does the consitution allow for that, too?
Are you claiming all living wills are invalid?
Want to take that one back?
I am not going to turn this into a WW2 thread, Baatan was sad and disgraceful, but FDR decided Germany had to be deal with first.
You made a comparison, and I wanted to know if you were willing to defend that comparison. I still want to know.
Sure, but not right now and not in this thread.
I'll wait for a retraction, but not for a rationalization.
Out.
Fortunately, the many good folks who made the Underground Railroad a reality didn't feel that way.
That is scary. Would you grant a President Kerry or President H. Clinton that much power as well?
What I want is irrelevent. The power exists. I don't argue it is to be used every day. Instead, I argue that it exists so that supreme responsibility lies somewhere within the government. Without it, you get finger pointing and chaos when action needs to be taken. Kinda like the last two weeks. In cases where the legislature feels the executive power has been abused, impeachment is available. It's truly part of a well-thought out document called the Constitution. You should check into it.
Do you see any irony in the fact an elected president with term limitations is restricted by unelected judges who remain in power for life?
Did someone say something about the branches of government having equal power?
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