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Senator changes mind on Schiavo [Martinez - FL]
The St. Petersburg Times ^
| 2/12/06
| ADAM C. SMITH
Posted on 02/12/2006 6:25:57 AM PST by doc30
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Any comments on the Junior Senator from FL? Don't mean to open the Schaivo story, but Martinez working with Nelson on the oil drilling ban really bothers me. Seems Martinez may be a new member of the RINO club. Please tell me I'm wrong on that.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:25:58 AM PST
by
doc30
To: doc30
Florida Repubicans could have done MUCH better than Mel Martinez for senator. He and Nelson are two peas in a pod.
To: doc30
You just HAD to post this, didn't you? :)
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:30:27 AM PST
by
bonfire
To: doc30
comments? sure. let us murder you, so then we can apologize to your corpse. what a clown this rino is.
To: doc30
Martinez working with Nelson on the oil drilling ban really bothers me. Seems Martinez may be a new member of the RINO club. Please tell me I'm wrong on that.He's caught my attention also, not in a good way...
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:34:54 AM PST
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: doc30
Must be worried about re-election. That's one of the best indicators when they flip flop. They are in it for their own benefit, no one elses......ever.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:35:53 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(Terrorists will either succeed in changing our way of life, or we will change theirs. - Rummy)
To: doc30
I have little to say about Señor Senator Martinez other than he must have a terrible staff, as the delay from writing him and the eventual standard reply, is long in coming.
It would appear that he is on schedule to be a one term senator.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:36:23 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(Duty, Honor, Country)
To: doc30
He is on course to be a one-term Senator in large part because people in Florida were furious that he believed the federal government should be making life-and-death decisions for individuals rather than their families.
Man, you "conservatives" sure have made your peace with exercising unlimited governmental power, eh? You know what they say about power. And there's no better proof than to look at the Republican party of 1984 or 1994 and the cesspool it is today.
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posted on
02/12/2006 6:50:14 AM PST
by
Jonathon Spectre
(Nazis believed they were doing good.)
To: Jonathon Spectre
Why is it so awful to have the federal government intervention in family matters and not the state government, and a state official so compromised by his relationship with the attorney on one side of the case? So many people focused so much on the principle of states rights and so little on the principle of judicial impartiality in matters of life and death. No point, of course, in revisiting the matter, It was well established that the principle of utility dominates the conservative movement. Unless the person is useful, he is worthless.
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posted on
02/12/2006 7:00:56 AM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: Jonathon Spectre
civil rights are a federal issue.
To: doc30
This is probably the only matter in history which the liberals think should have been decided by the states...
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posted on
02/12/2006 7:24:00 AM PST
by
SeƱor Zorro
("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
To: doc30
Martinez said supporters of the bill wanted "one last measure of review. That's what the debate was about in the Senate. If I had to take one lesson away it's perhaps decisions of this nature really belong in state courts, not federal courts." Condemned prisoners get federal judicial review on top of their state review. The governor of the state also has the power to grant clemency.
This is all that was asked when a person's blood relatives disagree with the spouse's decision to end a life. We're going to err on the side of keeping people alive when the correct course is uncertain.
Not exactly an earth shattering concept. But apparently beyond the intellectual capacity of Sen. Martinez.
To: doc30
-The effort to keep her alive proved unsuccessful and enormously unpopular with the public.-
That should be "unpopular with the uninformed public", and they were uninformed because the media misinformed them with the use of the term "vegetable".
To: doc30
Mel Martinez had the support of the Bushes and they are good at political game playing.
It's a complex puzzle. The Bushes fraternize with the Clintons and it's one big happy oligarchy.
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posted on
02/12/2006 9:20:10 AM PST
by
floriduh voter
(http://www.conservative-spirit.org)
To: AmericanChef; 8mmMauser; T'wit; Dante3
The propaganda by the mainstream media contributed to her death. Hard to believe how many people were brainwashed but I recall that there was a FR survey in which 87 - 89% of freepers voted that Terri should get to live. Why don't freepers recall that poll?
They shouldn't be writing about Terri any more. So many more people are being killed the same way without the headlines. She had no directives. She was murdered.
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posted on
02/12/2006 9:23:11 AM PST
by
floriduh voter
(http://www.conservative-spirit.org)
To: floriduh voter
Exactly. And an incredible amount of misinformation has been spread about this case.
The fact is that Terri never indicated she wanted to die, much less be dehydrated. She never had a lawyer, and Greer denied her due process while catering to Michael Schiavo. The sadistic students Michael pulled on her and her family is too long to list.
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posted on
02/12/2006 9:43:24 AM PST
by
Dante3
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To: bvw
sarcasm....
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posted on
02/12/2006 9:55:34 AM PST
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: darkwing104
Sorry ... thanks to teh quick moderators my most intemparate post was pulled.
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posted on
02/12/2006 9:57:27 AM PST
by
bvw
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