She did have BALLS. She grabbed Elian and gave him wrongly to a Dictator.
She did have BALLS. She burnt alive a group a WACO including children.
Posted on 03/28/2005 3:25:19 AM PST by Hawk44
The sad case of Terri Schiavo has raised passions not seen since five years ago. Then another bitterly divided family argued in Florida courts over someone who couldn't speak on his own behalf: Elian Gonzalez. In both cases, those who were unhappy with the courts' decisions strained to assert the federal government's power to produce a different outcome. The difference is that in Mrs. Schiavo's case, Congress backed off after passing a bill that merely asked a federal court to hear the case from scratch, something that U.S. District Judge James Whittemore declined to do. By contrast, those who wanted the federal government to intervene in Elian Gonzalez's case went all the way, supporting a predawn armed federal raid on the morning before Easter to seize the 6-year-old boy despite a federal appeals court's refusal to order his surrender. Both cases were marked with hypocrisy and political posturing galore. Both times some conservative Republicans talked about issuing subpoenas to compel the person at the center of the case to appear before Congress; they swiftly backed down when public opinion failed to support their stunt. Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, argued that by opposing Elian's return to his father in communist Cuba, conservatives were abandoning the principle that "the state should not supersede the parents' wishes." In the case of Terri Schiavo, many conservatives who normally support spousal rights decided that Michael Schiavo's decision to abandon his marital vows while at the same time refusing to divorce his wife rendered him unfit to override the wishes of his wife's parents to have her cared for.
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Seriously, you guys are choking on your own hyperbole. We should not celebrate people like Janet Reno, regardless of the circumstances. I shouldn't have to remind you of that.
Ya think?
Liberals have a spine, Republicans don't. Liberals have the courage of their convictions by and large. Republicans don't.
The Bush's are cowards on this right along with Congress and the Florida politicos.
She did have BALLS. She grabbed Elian and gave him wrongly to a Dictator.
She did have BALLS. She burnt alive a group a WACO including children.
I don't know 'bout a different toon. There and then they had a chance to send an army and hold a gun on a little boy to send him back to a communist paradise.
In Terri's case, it would serve only to save an innocent life.
Seems to me they're playing the same old toon.
Reno had more cajones than Jeb can muster.
Jeb is toast.
You started off this article by praising Janet Reno, and predicting doom and gloom for Jeb. Neither one was warranted. It certainly doesn't sound like you're coming down to hard on Reno, there. But hey, if I'm mistaken, and you're in fact taking a subtle jab at Janet for being balls, then my bad.
In our culture, having 'balls' is generally implied to mean that one is brave, which is generally assumed to be a good thing. Not being able to muster cajones would likewise cause the reader to infer that the subject is not brave, and in fact inferior to one with said cajones. This might be the source of our miscommunication.
Jeb, at any rate, is neither lacking in cajones nor toast.
I thought 'cajones' meant having "audacity" and not being "brave". Evil has audacity. Just look to Judge Greer.
Nah, same tune .... left and right have ironically (but predictably) just changed parts.
Matthew 25:44-45
44 Then they also [in their turn] will answer, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?
45 And He will reply to them, Solemnly I declare to you, in so far as you failed to do it for the least [in the estimation of men] of these, you failed to do it for Me.
"If Terri had been a French/Arab/black/Hispanic/Native American/Eskimo/Canadian, Jewish/Muslim/Buddhist/Hindu/Scientologist/Taoist/Sikh, lesbian/bisexual/trans-gendered, vegetarian, atheist/pantheist, antiwar, environmentalist, socialist/communist, convicted felon, recovering addict/alcoholic, pro-Choice, liberal, Democrat, attorney/author/activist/professor/journalist/news-anchor/poet/actor/producer/director/publisher/artist with breast cancer; she'd be well-fed and hydrated, doing a guest appearance on Oprah. And Michael Schiavo would be sitting in a jail cell awaiting attempted murder charge."
You forgot to add:
If Terri had been a lab animal under experimentation, PETA would have rescued her.
On the other hand, the MSM absolutely ignores this, so there by implication is your answer.
It angers me more that the Bush babies were so affected by the E.G. saga that neither was willing to exercise the
Constitutional powers of their Executive Office to even attemt "err in favor of life." Unless the Court is that
oligarchy of Despots Jefferson saw -- and the Executive and Legislative but minion of the despotic rule Then the
Bush Brother had every Constitutional right to act beyond
their talk. IT appears the three part system of "co-extensive powers" instituted to provide necessary checks and balances against such despotic rule seems that system
is irretrievably broken.As is the Rule of Law.
I think it does in an environment in which Democrats are usually depicted as evil incarnate and Republicans as saints in waiting.
Judge Greer stood firm against the subpoena, confident that his black-robed brothers and sisters, clear up to a minimum of five members of the Supreme Court, would back up his defiance. He was right. He also bet that the legislative and executive branches would blink before the judiciary. Two for two for the probate court magistrate.
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