Posted on 04/13/2005 8:21:32 PM PDT by cyncooper
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay apologized Wednesday for using overheated rhetoric on the day Terri Schiavo died, but refused to say whether he supports impeachment of the judges who ruled in her case.
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At a crowded news conference in his Capitol office, DeLay addressed remarks he made in the hours after the brain-damaged Florida woman died on March 31. "I said something in an inartful way and I shouldn't have said it that way and I apologize for saying it that way," DeLay told reporters.
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DeLay seemed at pains to soften, if slightly, his rhetoric of March 31, when Schiavo died despite an extraordinary political and legal effort to save her life.
"I believe in an independent judiciary. I repeat, of course I believe in an independent judiciary," DeLay said.
At the same time, he added, the Constitution gives Congress power to oversee the courts.
"We set up the courts. We can unset the courts. We have the power of the purse," DeLay said.
Asked whether he favors impeachment for any of the judges in the Schiavo case, he did not answer directly.
Instead, he referred reporters to an earlier request he made to the House Judiciary Committee to look into "judicial activism" and Schiavo's case in particular.
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No obviously not. Now you can try and understand what I was saying or remain locked into a fanatical and unrealizable viewpoint.
Millions die everyday hundreds or thousands could have been saved with the money wasted on TS. Where is your concern for THEIR lives?
How much can be dragged out of the taxpayer to sustain your
fantasies? Already our health care system has become almost bankrupted.
To where???
We will have to be careful now when we preach to other countries about human rights. Until we get our own house in order regarding judge-sanctioned murders it's going to seem hypocritical of us lecturing third world countries about what they shouldn't be doing.
Then by all means let the Florida legislature take action at the encouragement of Congress. DeLay has no reason whatsoever to apolgize to anyone.
To where???
Back into the fantasy world from which they came.
Most likely they haven't voted at all in decades (much less voted GOP) as single issue voters rarely vote because the "perfect candidate" never runs.
You're talking socialism here.
If you advocate what they did, if you agree with what they did, how they got rid of the infirm, insane, impure(to the Nazis) then how can you not be expected to be compared to them.
When I say "you" I'm talking about a person in general, not specifically you.
It's not like any one is going to accuse you of being Martian like. We have no proof that the hypothetical and imaginary Martians ever advocated killing innocent non terminal people like Terri.
Umm, the above Martian example is an exaggeration to underline my meaning, in case you didn't understand that.
You're wrong that Congress can do nothing with a state judge. This is a myth that is presently in circulation by those that are ignorant of the Constitution.
Congress can subpoena Greer to a hearing and investigation to inquire how he balanced Constitional Rights with State law, how he processed his decision.
Congress can also compel the Administration to charge Greer and other with violating the civil rights of Terri Schiavo.
What Congress cannot do is to directly cause the impeachment of Greer, this can be done only by the Florida legislature and judiciary. Congress also cannot assert any authority over Greer's actions that are not linked to the enumerated clauses and amendments of the US Constitution, that would instead be left to the state of Florida. However, in any violation of Terry Schiavo's Constitutional Rights, the Congress can intervene in Florida courts, including the court where Greer currently presides.
What happened to THE HAMMER?!
Bush is not a RINO
I stand by what I said: Judge Greer broke the law TWICE.
Even a JUDGE cannot go AGAINST the Constitution.
And it's just that simple.
Thousands are allowed to die in the USA in this manner every week. There was nothing unusual about it. The only thing unusual about it was an organized political movement which made what was normally a private concern a public one.
And we are not speaking of "handicapped" people but people with nothing of life left but a semblence. No society can spend millions on such cases of which there are thousands at any given time. It simply isn't possible. Nor would it have even been an issue at any time but recently since individuals cannot afford to pay for this only socialized medicine can. Patients simply were allowed to die until recently.
A fifteen year old has better comebacks.
So just who would be in charge of making those "real-world" decisions? This is the argument Hitler used.
Get help
It was exactly state resources which kept TS "alive" for many years, socialized medicine at its worse.
Perhaps the country was already dead in that it didn't prevent Terri's murder. With her death I believe our country came to life. Time will tell if the gasp for breath was the birth of conscience and a desire for justice or the final death rattle.
Then tell the Florida legislature to impeach him.
The cold blooded forced starvation death of an innocent person who is not terminal is never a private family issue and I never want it to be a private family matter in such circumstances.
My point is valid and you know it.
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