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To: All; wagglebee
Keep it up, Fred.

Speaking of Huckabee, Fred Thompson gets it right on nailing Huck on his words. They spill out from a Democrat playbook and Fred rings clear. Thread by wagglebee.

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"Now I know Governor Huckabee was talking about amending the Constitution, but I don't think he understood that he was using code words that support judicial activism," Thompson explained.

"He does not appear to understand that reliance on the notion that the Constitution is a living, breathing document is precisely the kind of wrong-headed thinking about the Constitution that gave us Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion across our nation," Thompson added.

"I do not believe the Constitution is a living, breathing document. I am committed to appointing strict constructionist judges to the bench if I am elected President, strict constructionists who believe the Constitution has a fixed meaning that can be applied to cases that come before the courts today," Thompson said.

Fred Thompson Blasts Mike Huckabee on Abortion, Constitution Comments

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200 posted on 01/19/2008 3:38:45 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; Coleus; BykrBayb
Officials in New Jersey sound like they are doing good by trimming futile care. We may recall how the Bush Futile Care law in Texas was geared to trim such unnecessary and noisome care as well. But in Texas, the word, "futile" got changes somewhere on the way to the dictionary and referred instead to patients' lives being futile, not the care. Would New Jersey officials do that?

Top medical officials from around New Jersey plan to meet next month for talks that could profoundly change the way doctors and hospitals in the state treat dying patients. Many New Jerseyans at the end of life receive futile medical care, and studies show extremely high rates of hospitalizations, interventions and physician consultations for such patients even though they do not live longer or suffer less than patients in other states.

Hospitals' medical directors plan to meet Feb. 13 at the New Jersey Hospital Association in Princeton to take on the issue. "We can do a good job of resuscitating people and putting them on ventilators," said Aline Holmes, the NJHA's senior vice president of clinical affairs. "But when we know they can't go home, we have to do a better job of talking to families and patients about what it all means."

Jersey's hospitals reviewing how they treat dying patients

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201 posted on 01/19/2008 3:52:01 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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