Posted on 04/05/2005 2:06:47 PM PDT by Crackingham
U.S. Senate Republican leader Bill Frist said on Tuesday that courts had acted fairly in the Terri Schiavo "right-to-die" case, differing sharply from a vow of retribution by his House of Representatives counterpart, Tom DeLay.
"I believe we have a fair and independent judiciary today," said Frist, now trying to resolve a battle with Democrats over judicial nominations that threatens to tie his chamber into knots. "I respect that."
Frist and DeLay, as the Senate and House majority leaders, had led a charge for emergency legislation calling on the federal courts to review the Schiavo case. President Bush flew back from a Texas vacation to sign the bill into law. But federal courts refused to intervene and let stand a Florida state court order to remove a feeding tube from the brain-damaged woman. Schiavo's husband had said she would not have wanted to live in her condition, but her parents fought against the tube's removal. Schiavo died last week after spending 15 years in what courts had ruled was a persistent vegetative state.
DeLay, a Texas Republican, said afterward: "We will look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at the Congress and president when given jurisdiction to hear this case anew."
In a written statement, DeLay said: "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior."
Frist, asked about the furor over the case, told reporters, "I will let members (of Congress) ... speak for themselves."
But the Tennessee Republican said he believed the courts "acted in a fair and independent way."
The Schiavo case was unique, Frist said. "Our bill said, 'let's let the courts take another look,"' he said.
More sterling leadership from the GOP.
And the diehards can't figure out why so many conservatives are sick of the GOP's "our candidate's the lesser of two evils" strategy toward its base, and why we're thinking third party at this point.
Suck-up.
The Senate considers itself a "gentlemens' club". A common euphemism for high roller topless nightclubs are "gentlemens' clubs."
This Majority "Leader" perfectly illustrates the number-one principle of life in Washington:
"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck -- duck!"
No they didn't, Bill Frist. Terri needed her entire case to be heard in a court far away from George Greer. Greer was obviously not ruling in favor of Terri and the rehabilitation she was supposed to be getting, and he was letting her husband and his vampire lawyer waste her $750,000.00 rehabilitation and therapy fund. Greer deserved to be overturned years ago.
As a friend of mine from Alabama told me recently, "Frist" is short for "Floppy Wrist".
I feel like a gay guy after his first Fristing.
Frist is the Senate Majority Leader.
Delay is the House Majority Leader.
Hastert is Speaker of the House.
Ted Stevens is the President Pro Tem of the Senate
Vice President Cheney is the President of the Senate.
It just happens that the most powerful position in the House is speaker, while the most powerful position in the senate is Majority Leader.
Fair yes, after all they do consider European precedent in holdings where they have sworn to obey the Supreme Law of the Land, taht being the Constituion and laws enacted by Congress. What could be more fair than that?
Independent? Certainly, they have decided they are a law unto themsleves. Sodomy is enshrined somewhere in the Constituion but the right to life of full term babies is not nor is the right of parents to approve of medical intervention in their young children.
Can't get much more independent than that.
Of course that is what he meant. Since the MSM doesn't understand religion, it doesn't see how anybody could be held responsible in the afterlife, so of course he must have meant in this life.
I am NOT endorsing DeLay's view of what will happen with these judges in the afterlife, just agreeing that he meant they had to be judged by God, not us.
Frist, what loser. Doesn't he realize that he and the whole House and Senate have just been bit** slapped by that federal judge?
What an imposing line-up
DeLay risks losing the House with his crusade against the judiciary.
Frist? In the WPPFF?
"The Whip" and "The Hammer"- there was such a delightful similitude.
Guess I could still criticize Reuters for not capitalizing the term...
Figures...no backbone...
wppff ?
Not all Senators are limp willed, at least one has cajones
http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2005/03/santorum-terri-ruling-defied-congress.html
That's what I was thinking too.
If he's considering a Presidential run in '08, he ought to be a little more discreet in his comments.
You got that right.........these fricking Republicans are a joke....... between this weenie and Bush backing down from Senor Fox.....not sure why I voted for these ballless b@stards.
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