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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http://www.theempirejournal.com/416052_death_is_not_harmless_err.htm
FOLLOW THE MONEY. TERRI WAS MURDERED BECAUSE OF MONEY.
What did you mean by asking me how it felt to be on the "other side"?
Are you going to deny your purpose was not to malign?
Your posts speak for themselves. If you had not taken the path of attack from the start I would address any factual points you might have, however, I am choosing to address your deceitful characterizing of me and others. That type of thing must stop.
Hm, anybody else get a nasty freepmail from mercyme?
I did and it was malicious so I responded pointing out the errors.
Now I get a freepmail from her demanding that I stop contacting HER.
man, it's not that deep. I'm just a freeper, it's Saturday and I am not in the maligning business. You replied to a post that wasn't even to you as if you were on "the other side". So, how did you vote in the poll about whether Terri should have been killed or not? I voted that she should not have been killed.
LOL
How many posts have you made that I've pointed out your insults?
I'm afraid you are indeed in the maligning business of fellow freepers in addition to "Jebbie".
I see you adapted to the hazy air back here.
Remember when this was a Republican website?
Yup.
I remember. Also one that prized facts.
I remember ... it was some time ago. We wanted less government, not more.
Theocracies scare me. And they scare most people.
You sent this freepmail to me. I did not contact you first:
Re: DeLay Apologizes for Schiavo Case Rhetoric
From mercyme | 04/16/2005 12:38:21 PM PDT replied
I start talking instead of just looking at FR. I've always been with FR in spirit.
But I think you and your little group have shown yourselves for what you are.
Most of the people around here think your views on Terri are creepy
***end***
I then replied to that nonsense and I will again whenever you write to me.
How dare you write to me privately first and then object when I reply and then you post those notes on the open forum.
No, I do not regret one word I wrote pointing out the errors of your "thinking" but the violation you have committed on many levels is beyond disgusting.
Sorry for "contacting" you with this ping, but it needs to be noted that
I have never freepmailed you, and I completely ignored your freepmail to me, not wanting to encourage further obsession.
I didn't bother telling them to stop "contacting" you. From all I can tell, they are only answering posts and one of your freepmails.
This is all way too weird.
Was I supposed to know this thing was freepmailing you, too?
This is indeed way too weird.
Good grief.
It's not only weird, it's juvenile. *sigh* Newbies.
That seems like a long long time ago, now. Now it's been shown that far too many Freepers are just one half-step removed from Contitution Party loons.
In a way, though, I suppose it just means that FR has come full circle. The mixed nuts brigade controlled this place in the earliest days too.
True.
You must really be sensitive if you think I'm playing hard ball.
I'm not sensitive and I didn't say you were playing "hardball".
You must like to twist facts.
wanna be on my ping list?
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