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GOP leaders unlikely to pursue new avenues to keep Schiavo alive
kansascity.com ^ | Wed, Mar. 23, 2005 | JEFF ZELENY

Posted on 03/24/2005 11:02:42 AM PST by Destro

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To: Destro
Terri is not disabled - she is in a PVS - not the same thing.

They'll never get it.

Wasting your time.

101 posted on 03/24/2005 12:34:54 PM PST by the Deejay ( I'LL RESPECT YOUR OPINION....IF YOU'LL RESPECT MINE.....)
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To: the Deejay

Jeb Bush will not be tried in Criminal Court.

He would have to be impeached. Therefore the ultimate decision making lies with the people.


102 posted on 03/24/2005 12:35:15 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "For your AMUSEMENT..." ; ))
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To: Howlin

No moonwalk?


103 posted on 03/24/2005 12:35:42 PM PST by lugsoul (Until at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside.)
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To: Howlin
All that's missing is the cotton candy vendor and the guy that guesses your weight.

Last night it looked like a parade!

You watching online? Link please?

104 posted on 03/24/2005 12:36:08 PM PST by the Deejay ( I'LL RESPECT YOUR OPINION....IF YOU'LL RESPECT MINE.....)
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To: onyx
Millions of abortions, what 40-50 million?
Lord knows how many Terri's are out there, you know the euthanasia crowd and those in the closet will be pushing the envelope on this both in the open and behind the scenes? A case like Terri would have been unthinkable 20 years ago. Which is why it has not happened before now.

Naw nothing like the Nazis. They started with the handicapped we started with babies, you are right it is nothing like the Nazis. //sarcasm off//

I am not liking my country very much right now. I know there will be a price to be paid for this sin eventually.
105 posted on 03/24/2005 12:36:20 PM PST by Mark in the Old South (Sister Lucia of Fatima pray for us)
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To: the Deejay

No......just glancing up once in a while to the TV. I'm trying to work and do this at the same time!


106 posted on 03/24/2005 12:36:53 PM PST by Howlin
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To: lugsoul

Now you know he's got his own "show" going in California!


107 posted on 03/24/2005 12:37:22 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Destro
Sadly, Terri is not disabled - she is in a PVS - not the same thing.

DING DING DING DING...

That is the assumption. However, this neurologist disagrees

going one step further if that is true, then why not follow the Law Congress passed, give the case a De Novo review, and get to the correct Judgement, without Killing her Before that?

108 posted on 03/24/2005 12:37:45 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "For your AMUSEMENT..." ; ))
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To: Destro
Your posts have been offensive enough. Thanks but no thanks. I have had enough of the Culture of Death this Maundy Thursday.
109 posted on 03/24/2005 12:38:24 PM PST by Mark in the Old South (Sister Lucia of Fatima pray for us)
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To: Howlin

I am relieved to learn that you are not a clown. LOL


110 posted on 03/24/2005 12:38:54 PM PST by verity (The Liberal Media and the ACLU are America's Enemies)
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To: hobbes1
Then why hasn't Jeb done it? What's he waiting for?

Judge Napolitano just said,

No matter who would be appointed guardian, the tube would stay out. Court order.

Per Terri's wishes.

111 posted on 03/24/2005 12:39:05 PM PST by the Deejay ( I'LL RESPECT YOUR OPINION....IF YOU'LL RESPECT MINE.....)
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To: Howlin
I'm trying to work and do this at the same time!

Same here! LOL

Just got the Easter goodies packed up for the grandbabies. finally!

112 posted on 03/24/2005 12:40:55 PM PST by the Deejay ( I'LL RESPECT YOUR OPINION....IF YOU'LL RESPECT MINE.....)
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To: Antoninus
Your America is apparently the land where a judge orders a disabled woman to be starved to death and defies any and all efforts to save her. You can have your America. I spit on it.

First of all, the woman is not starving to death. We can survive longer without food than without fluid. So she will die from dehydration.

Second, there are much larger issues here than just the fate of this one woman. You, and others with your passionate point of view, could make something constructive come out of the Schiavo tragedy if you'd look up and see the wider issues. The Schiavo case IS NOT UNIQUE in any way except for the epic family feud involved.

What is occurring in her case happens in one way or another every day. Whether or not we want to be intellectually honest and call removal of life support, feeding tubes, etc., by it's real name, it is what it is. Euthanasia.

We have no national euthanasia policy. You, and others like you who have invested so much emotion in the Schiavo case, could make her death meaningful. Instead of the silly, juvenile "I spit on it," response, you could turn your activism toward working for passage of a well-reasoned national law governing euthanasia, and providing for cases similar to the Shaivo case.

Short of that, this case has been so much sound and fury, signifying nothing.

113 posted on 03/24/2005 12:42:05 PM PST by Wolfstar (If you can lead, do it. If you can't, follow. If you can't do either, become a Democrat.)
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To: plewis1250
You know, that makes me sick. To think that a mentally disabled woman being starved to death is a "fools' errand"... What kind of human being are you?

One who contemplates the battles he fights.

We were at a crossroads. Down one path, we could invoke the nuclear option. Down the other path, we could waste our one opportunity to invoke the nuclear option AND make the whole issue too radioactive for the upcoming election cycle, all in the name of saving Terri Schiavo.

Unlike a lot of the "conservatives" who talk about a "fighting the culture war," I've actually fought in a war. And the first lesson of warfighting is maintenance of the objective. We failed to do that.

The pro-life agenda will not end, just as the anti-homosexual agenda will not end.

It will however, cease to have any impact in American politics if the pro-life community forms a single-issue pro-life party, which is the point I was making.

Our earthly life begins at conception, and ends at death. If it is cut short any time before this by another human being, it is murder.

OK...I guess I've just lost the right to engage in self-defense using lethal force.

We must choose to go down one of two roads: one leads to our success, one leads to our demise.

And we've chosen the latter.

I believe that if this woman dies, our demise will be imminent.

Thank you for your input.

I believe that if we fail to appoint conservative jusges, our demise is inevitable. Thanks for helping us blow the opportunity to do so.

To not believe life needs to be preserved is disgusting and totally uncalled for...

How many abortions are going to be performed because we wasted our shot at the nuclear option for this?

114 posted on 03/24/2005 12:42:11 PM PST by Poohbah (If it's called "collateral damage," how come I can't use it to secure a loan?)
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To: the Deejay

Napolitano is now all of a sudden an Oracle of Wisdom?

A De Novo review of the case might, just might lead to expert medical witnesses that can lay a case for the rehabilitation of Terri, making the Feeding tube Moot.


Remember, Treatments have been witheld, yet here se is, and Medical science advances fairly quickly possibly in this case.


115 posted on 03/24/2005 12:43:24 PM PST by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "For your AMUSEMENT..." ; ))
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To: the Deejay

Becsause to them a feeding tube has to have blinking lights like ina Holywood moo-vee.


116 posted on 03/24/2005 12:44:24 PM PST by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: Poohbah
What kind of human being are you?

He/she acknowledged you are human. That's an encouraging start to a meaningful dialog. :-)

117 posted on 03/24/2005 12:46:27 PM PST by verity (The Liberal Media and the ACLU are America's Enemies)
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To: Poohbah
It will also spell the end of the pro-life agenda.

Ah, the sweet light of reason. The hysterics may not see the truth of what you wrote, but the people who drive these issues into hysterics certainly will. If the agenda dies, their gravy train of donations and such will go away. So as soon as Schiavo dies, the people who make their living off whipping up hysteria will tamp things down a bit -- still use it in their fundraising, but with reduced heat.

118 posted on 03/24/2005 12:46:48 PM PST by Wolfstar (If you can lead, do it. If you can't, follow. If you can't do either, become a Democrat.)
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To: Wolfstar

OK, here's another number to reach jeb Bush's office: 850.488.5603. A live person just answered and was polite. PLEASE BE POLITE! We gain nothing by insulting Jeb Bush. Please call this number and calmly tell the person who answers that you are calling to implore Jeb Bush to take Terri into protective custody. Again, I just got through to a live person at 12:40pm Pac time.


119 posted on 03/24/2005 12:47:11 PM PST by utahagen
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To: hobbes1
A De Novo review of the case might, just might lead to expert medical witnesses that can lay a case for the rehabilitation of Terri, making the Feeding tube Moot.

It's way too late. Understand?

The courts don't give a rat's rear about De Novos.

120 posted on 03/24/2005 12:47:30 PM PST by the Deejay ( I'LL RESPECT YOUR OPINION....IF YOU'LL RESPECT MINE.....)
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