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Posted on 10/02/2006 3:57:59 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
Old Saybrook — For the more than 70 people who came to the pavilion on Saybrook Point Sunday, $100 a hot dog was not too steep a price to pay to back the candidacy of Democrat Ned Lamont.
And former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, state Democratic Party Chairman George Jepson and Annie Lamont were there to tell them why her husband should be the next U.S. senator from Connecticut.
Wilson, who said he had no particular animus toward incumbent U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, “other than to believe that when the voters turn you out, you're supposed to go away,” gave his support to Lamont because, in Wilson's words, the Bush administration needs to be held accountable.
“The Republican majority in Congress has abrogated its constitutional responsibilities to provide oversight of the executive branch,” Wilson said. “It has sacrificed the Constitution of the United States on the altar of partisan politics to a radical regime.”
And Lieberman, Jepsen said, has shown he's not the man to hold this administration to account.
Of course, Lieberman's support for the war in Iraq is a big reason many people give for their decision to support Lamont, Jepsen said, but “it's not simply about the war. It's about Terri Schiavo. It's about whether rape victims will have access to the medical care that they need... It's about our national debt, which is skyrocketing... It's about packing the Supreme Court.
(Excerpt) Read more at theday.com ...
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During the Terri Schiavo controversy last year, for instance, Nelson avoided the spotlight as Martinez charged forward trying to force the courts to keep the Florida woman alive even though numerous doctors over the years had said she was in a persistent vegetative state.
Nelson's votes: He crosses party lines, rarely takes lead
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But what concerns me as much as anything is his outright profiteering as a senator. Consider the letter circulated among religiously conservative legislators and their allies, telling them how they could benefit financially from taking an (irrational) stand in favor of preserving the life of Terri Schiavo. Santorum allegedly reaped a hefty reward of $80,000 from doing just that.
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Attacks on the Christian Right and on Terri...
Alarmed at Congress' intervention in the Terry Schiavo case last year, Danforth has penned a book, "Faith and Politics," that has powerful lessons and local applications.
"Followers of the Rev. Jerry Falwell have distributed a bumper sticker bearing the slogan 'Vote Christian,' thereby conveying the clear message that there is a Christian way to vote, as opposed to a non-Christian or anti-Christian way to vote," Danforth writes.
Christian right driving wedge into U.S.
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The right-wing coalition that has spent 40 years climbing to its current position of political dominance may be cracking up.
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“Where in the hell did this Terri Schiavo thing come from?” asked Dick Armey, the former House majority leader, in an interview with Ryan Sager, the author ...
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida plans to open an office in Orlando next month as part of its statewide expansion.
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Among those issues, Simon ticked off voting problems, restrictions on access to abortion, end-of-life care concerns exhibited in the Terri Schiavo case, library book censorship, public policies motivated by hostility to gays and lesbians, plans to fund church-run schools with taxpayer money and efforts to enlist government endorsement for one religious point of view.
Orlando expansion part of ACLU of Florida's plans
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And here is the story, from Terri's sister...
News stories still reference the years-long and very public fight over whether to end Terri Schiavo’s life, although she died more than a year ago.
And Schiavo’s parents, brother and sister are still on the road and at the microphone telling the story of her life and death, which came after her husband, Michael, won a court battle to remove the brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube. She died of dehydration on March 31, 2005.
"Terri’s in the news constantly," said her sister, Suzanne Vitadamo, who spoke to about 50 people at yesterday’s Ohio Right to Life conference in Columbus. "She needs to have people know what happened."
Schiavo’s sister expounds on family’s fight... Terri wasn’t terminal, she tells conference
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"Wilson, who said he had no particular animus toward incumbent U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, “other than to believe that when the voters turn you out, you're supposed to go away,” gave his support to Lamont because, in Wilson's words, the Bush administration needs to be held accountable."
Mr. Wilson, whose going to make you accountable for the bogus BS you've been spewing for three years. What a phoney b@stard, but then he fits right in with that bunch.
Except of course when so called conservatives are actually libertarians who think it's okay to starve someone to death.
Ostensibly this law was to cut off medical care when the treatment was futile to the patient, in other words treating a patient for acne when the patient is in trauma from cancer. The bioethicists have taken the different definition as in Clinton's meaning of "is". They judge whether the patient's life is futile. This is not an article from the hated right wing condemning the practice but is an article by Howard Witt of the Chicago Tribune...
Texas Futile care
HOUSTON - If it had been up to her doctors, the Houston hospital where she was treated, and the laws of the state of Texas, Kalilah Roberson-Reese would be dead by now.
Instead, the severely brain-damaged 29-year-old woman is being cared for in a Lubbock nursing home, where she has become a focal point in a growing struggle over a controversial Texas law that permits hospitals to withdraw life support from patients whose conditions they deem hopeless - even if family members object.
Under the terms of the state's "futile-care law," a hospital seeking to discontinue treatment must give a patient's family 10 days to find an alternate facility willing to accept the patient. After that, the hospital can legally pull the plug.
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Ahh yes, thus they define themselves as in another camp...
Interesting race and article. Thanks for posting.
Someone please notify John Kerrey and Al Bore of this!
I wish Jimmy Carter would listen to Wilson. Oh, wait, he probably does.
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Terri Schindler Schiavo was murdered. Someday, people will get it.
the bad boy from hell is driving a wedge in the nation, it's not the Christians.
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