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DeLay Apologizes for Schiavo Case Rhetoric
AP via Yahoo ^ | April 13, 2005 | Terence Hunt

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.

~snip~

(Excerpt) Read more at story.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: apology; cowardaceunderfire; delay; grovelingissafer; schiavo; thewormturns
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To: justshutupandtakeit

I swear, some of these folks want a theocracy, they almost deserve it.


61 posted on 04/13/2005 9:15:30 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Remember when conservatives embraced the rule of law?)
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To: Lancey Howard

Yes this is a huge blunder by Delay. He should have kept his mouth shut to begin with but after he didn't he should have NEVER apologized.

I have said all along this was a disaster for the GOP and now Delay is making it worse. While I support him a large number do not therefore making his the face of judicial reform has weakened our effort and may even defeat it.

For nothing.


62 posted on 04/13/2005 9:16:32 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Sanity? The only reason the dangerously disturbed Left has made the inroads it has is because of the effete Right, apparently populated by eunuchs.

INsanity more explains my major blunder.

63 posted on 04/13/2005 9:17:28 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: cyncooper

cync can you post DeLay's email addy for me. Thanks a bunch. I want to email him and encourage him even from afar.


64 posted on 04/13/2005 9:17:35 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (All us Western Canuks should separate from central Canada and join together with Alberta !)
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To: B Knotts

I seriesly doubt that will happen until they meet their Maker.


66 posted on 04/13/2005 9:20:23 PM PDT by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: central scrutinizer
"Wow, overblown rhetoric from the Terri crowd? I'm shocked!"

I missread. Saw "overblown rhetoric," as juxtaposed to this AP ("All Propoganda") *story*, and thought you meant ANTI Terri crowd. In light of what I have just stated, THAT would be *shocking*. /s.

And President Bush being called a RINO by someone (can't now remember, sorry) is OVER THE TOP and head-shaking./head-banging.

67 posted on 04/13/2005 9:20:23 PM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: Vision

Bush understands what the Ultras don't. We have a margin of a couple of points NOT twenty. That margin will be disappated by wild rhetoric and fanatical positions. Particularly when those he was speaking for will desert the GOP at the drop of a hat.


68 posted on 04/13/2005 9:20:35 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Lancey Howard

With the blessing of the "Kangaroo" courts and the OUTRIGHT REFUSAL of Jeb Bush to step in and exert his Executive Authority!! Terri would have been better off to have been a brutal killer. Every "right" you can think of would have been afforded her.


69 posted on 04/13/2005 9:20:51 PM PDT by Canadian Outrage (All us Western Canuks should separate from central Canada and join together with Alberta !)
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To: cyncooper

DeLay is going to get Lott'd, if not worse. He shouldn't have back down an inch. I just lost respect for him.


70 posted on 04/13/2005 9:22:09 PM PDT by Spiff (Don't believe everything you think.)
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To: Canadian Outrage
IF Greer gets away with what he's done, then I don't see the Congress ever dealing with rogue judges.

I'm afraid this "apology" seals it, Greer is in the clear. He does whatever he wants at trial, tells Congress to stuff it, literally murders somebody yet DeLay is saying he's sorry. It's a world turned upside down.

71 posted on 04/13/2005 9:22:17 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Bush understands what the Ultras don't. We have a margin of a couple of points NOT twenty. That margin will be disappated by wild rhetoric and fanatical positions. Particularly when those he was speaking for will desert the GOP at the drop of a hat.

I'm gonna disagree with you on a few points here
72 posted on 04/13/2005 9:22:27 PM PDT by Vision (When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
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To: Lancey Howard

Watch out for the incoming, you know, the perfect freepers, who are perfectly conservative, who speak perfectly, never make a mistake, always vote perfectly, for the perfect conservative pols, who then vote on the floor for perfect bills, have perfect judgement at all times, and have no room in their perfect world for human beings in DC.

And if your not perfect, pure, clean, with perfect timing, overboard you go.

Don't ever get in the foxhole with them, ever.


73 posted on 04/13/2005 9:23:28 PM PDT by roses of sharon (WITH)
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To: sinkspur

Will we face the same kind of abuse for pointing out that this was a loser for the GOP now that Delay has admitted we were right?


74 posted on 04/13/2005 9:24:47 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: B Knotts

Not in THIS lifetime.


75 posted on 04/13/2005 9:25:17 PM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: Central Scrutiniser
See what I mean? Any attempt at a rational discussion is met with this kind of hyperbolic nonsense from you. You are a disgrace to argument and persuasion.

Right. This coming from somebody who sneered about "the Terri crowd" (post #16). You could cut the hypocrisy with a chainsaw.

I also didn't delight in the so called conservatives all of a sudden abandoning the rule of law

You're confused. Schiavo's murder had nothing to do with "the rule of law" and everything to do with the rule of some scumbag county probate judge and a bunch of other political whores who didn't have the guts to stand up and do the right thing. So now she's dead, and that's forever. Congratulations.

76 posted on 04/13/2005 9:25:47 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Sun

Delay must be protected but he cannot shoot his mouth off about impeaching judges when there is no cause. NO judge has done anything of which I have heard deserving of impeachment. Differences of opinion is NOT sufficient.


77 posted on 04/13/2005 9:26:42 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: cyncooper

Wonder if Rush'll mention this one?


78 posted on 04/13/2005 9:27:40 PM PDT by k2blader (Immorality bites.)
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To: B Knotts

Fifteen years of fruitless attempts to return this woman to life was long enough. There was nothing there to save. She was gone.

It is that kind of hysteria which got Delay into this mess and which may cost the GOP a great leader. This is particular disturbing since Liberals hate him even more than Bush. His very existence was enough to drive them around the bend.


79 posted on 04/13/2005 9:29:50 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: Lancey Howard

You evidently saw a sneer where there wasn't one, very defensive of you. As for the rule of law, you are a hypocrite, every single ruling went against what you wanted, so you wanted more rulings. Reminds me of the Gore supporters during the recount.

But, its the holier than thou crap and the hyperbolic "death cult" and "murderer" comments that make rational people ignore your kinds of posts as more rhetoric and name calling.

You want a theocracy? There are plenty out there, don't go advocating it here.


80 posted on 04/13/2005 9:30:40 PM PDT by Central Scrutiniser (Remember when conservatives embraced the rule of law?)
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