We're screwed.
DeLay is going to get Lott'd, if not worse. He shouldn't have back down an inch. I just lost respect for him.
Wonder if Rush'll mention this one?
This is what you call an "exit strategy". ;)
DeLay has done/said nothing to apologize for.
This is very disappointing, but I can only guess what vicious behind the scenes pressure must have been put on Tom. Maybe threats to his family. I wouldn't put it past the evildoers.
Take heart, Tom. You're the one beacon out there for a lot of us. Don't back down. This is one battle, not the whole war. You were on the right track before. Come out swinging even harder next time!
The Hammer is really a rubber mallet?
What happened to THE HAMMER?!
Liberals shout with glee, "We got another conservative to apologize".
Court ordered starvation (including nothing by mouth otherwise, period--not even ice chips or a swabbing on the lips,) of an innocent, defenseless fellow human being--footed and premised on, and justified in a decision at which was arrived through a basis of HEARSAY--which was not mentioned with regard to what Terri's "wishes" expressly were until SEVEN years after the fact and monies banked; completely absent *anything,* ANYTHING in writing from the innocent person (the human being ordered to be starved to death,) via the removal of a feeding tube (not an *artificial* *breathing* *machine*,) upon which MANY disabled people rely for daily sustenance, (just as we all rely on daily sustenance to live,) when a human being's body is NOT already shutting down in natural preparation for death, when court orders/summons (dictated to the sole reviewing judge of the case, who not ONCE visited Terri--the very same judge who ordered death to that very human through starvation,) are expressly ignored and evaded by overriding authorities, when the only de novo review was subsequently rebuked (and Congress was, at BASE, requesting that Terri Schiavo be given the same consideration given anyone convicted of Capital Punishment,) and the wholly MORAL position being one to always err on the side of LIFE (easy one--ask President Bush,)...
...the position taken be those who feel that the court-ordered decision to (VERY slowly and PAINFULLY) starve a human being to death was right and moral and justified, OR within rights of any sort...are, themselves, figuratively STARVED.
"...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
More signs of the lack of spine within the GOP.
I'm through with them.
I received a call from the RNC on Wednesday for a donation. I told them that although I still consider myself a Republican, I wasn't in any mood to be sending them any money. President Bush and the Senate have started off 2005 in a very disappointing fashion. I guess there is always hope, but I don't see things getting any better over the next 2--4 years.
The above was the case though, despite many of the leaders' and members' continued posting throughout the day on the Terri, and Terri's passing, threads, as well as continued posting elsewhere on the board. I did notice one of the WPPFF members, who is a friend of mine, who posted "God rest her soul," after I made note on the board of my observation on the odd DERTH of offers to Terri from the WPPFF.
The WPPFF signed their official Manifesto with this:
"The WPPFF, aka The Wild Turkeys, aka the Coalition of the Sane."
The bolding of the word *Sane* is mine, and is to call attention to the signing of their official Manifesto with the use of that word...and that word being their last stated word (and, as I mentioned, in signature.)
I will leave it to all on Free Republic (and also those who lurk,) to determine the intent and implication of distinction of the used term, and the grouping and capitalizing of the stated, official designation and signation "Coalition of the Sane".
None of this sits well with me and many.
Wow even DeLay backs off.
Guess all of those polls aren't just BS, eh? The Prez and his boys sure are running away as fast as they can from all the fanatics that wanted armed rebellion and Jeb's head on a pike in Florida.
Too bad, so sad.... :)
"It is against the laws of the hospice foundation to hasten death or accept non terminally ill patients.
Terri was neither...but she survived in that house of death for almost FIVE YEARS."
This is my two cents:
Five years of HELL.
*Husband* ordered NO light (shades down at all times,) NO music or TV, No basic dental/oral hygiene care (resulting in the pulling and FALLING OUT of her TEETH,) NO doctor ordered/highly recommended antibiotics (*husband* over-rode doctor's orders,) No BASIC circulatory, occupational, speech, or swallow therapy, NO flowers, and NO outdoor experience. FOR YEARS. NOTHING. NOTHING.
And is it common knowledge that lack of adequate dental/oral care/hygiene is a HUGE invite to a whole HOST of INFECTIONS.
*Husband* ordered BOTH no oral care AND no needed/recommended antibiotics for infections that Terri had.
It all sickens me.
...is repulsed by the court-ordered, starvation death of Terri Schiavo.
I hope he continues to stand by what they tried to do. It was the right thing period. Choosing to do what's right is usually NEVER the easiest choice.
I'm so glad you posted this. DeLay wanted to punish judges for reasons that are not recognized legally, a point many of us tried to point out repeatedly.
Thankfully neither Cheney nor Bush agreed with DeLay which would have compounded DeLay's error in speaking the way he did.
bttt
It seems that everyone who stuck up for re-inserting the feeding tube, now are changing their minds about what they said. No guts to stick to their guns.