Yet, if you woodburned a copy of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the US Constitution onto a baseball bat, and then used it to try to knock some respect for the Constitution into these people's heads it would come out as if YOU were the bad guy.
Dear Congress: Please mind your own damned business. Leave the Schiavo family alone.…
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26 - gonzo marx
pont taken Dave...not being a texican..i have no informed Opinion...
but i DO know that far more rests on the Washington bits involved...the money for trips...K street connections...his own changing of the Republican caucus' Ethics rules..
on top of that..i highly doubt anythign being done to him can be half as "partisan" as what he has done to those that oppose his viewpoints...
one can only hope his Karma will run over his Dogma...i don't care what Party this particular cretin is a part of...slime is slime
Excelsior!
27 - Dave Nalle
We'll see how far the Washington ethics issues go. I'm betting not very far, since if they take him down for junketing then they have to take down everyone else, on both sides of the aisle - well, everyone except Ron Paul, of course. Not a bad idea really, clean house and start over again.
Dave
28 - gonzo marx
heh..i'm with ya there
Shakespeare said "hang the lawyers first"
over 80% of the legislature are lawyers
Shakespeare for President!!
i can Dream, can't i?
Excelsior!
29 - Dave Nalle
Actually, Shakespeare was just quoting Wat Tyler who led the Peasants Revolt into London with that chant -as true today as it was then.
But if you did kill all the lawyers I believe by my count you'd leave both the house and the senate almost completely dominated by Republicans.
And btw, Ron Paul isn't a lawyer - he's an OBGYN.
Dave
30 - Al Barger
Interesting, I'm noting tonight the first public surveys on the Schiavo situation I've seen, suggesting that actually the public was against Congressional intervention nearly 2 to 1. Also, the surveys would suggest a similarly large majority would favor the removal of the feeding tube.
Yet the Democrats have been oddly reticent to pitch a bitch about this Republican nonsense. Damn, just when we really NEED Robert Byrd to start waving the Constitution around and pontificating, where is the old Kluxer?
31 - Aaman
Any links for the surveys?
(Last comment was skewing the page somehow)
32 - gonzo marx
Aaman check ABC's and CNN's websites for the surveys...
the ABC one had it at 3 to 1 against Federal intervention...others were closer to the 2 to 1 mark quoted..at least that was the case a few hours ago when i had the news on the TV in the background...
hope that helps
Excelsior!
33 - billy
the big things missed, especially by conservatives here is this.
1. It is terri's right to to not be kept alive with tubes under the law and this is what was found in the courts.
if you dont like it or want to ignore this fact go join roy moore and pray somewhere.
2. congress cannot overrule courts
no matter how much you would like a tom delay run doctatorship, he is impotent to violate a court order because we have a constitution.
34 - gerri
if federal law, isn't above states rights,then how did it come to be,that a lot of states fought against the civil rights movement,but the federal government,jumped in and got everything approved???and threw out each state's decisions and rights???? hm,let me think(those appointed for life,no financial worries ever,federal judges)huh???
35 - Tristan
DOCTATORSHIP !!!
what a pertinent Freudian slip (corset) --
we DO live in a Doctatorship formulated and expostulated in excess by the medical doctors and the AMA and the pharmaceutical groups .........
and I think Tom Delay has more than enough of his own problems to worry about just at the moment--perhaps he better quit trying to ram GW's puny cock up his ass and get back to business...........
especially his OWN!
36 - gerri
i wonder how much time,michael's attorney,would have spent on this case,if no money was available for his high priced time?but of course, michael, had terri's trust fund,which was to go toward her care ,but instead,went to legal costs,to help her to die ,for his convenience,and the life style ,he was in a hurry to get....but i think what puzzles me is,if he had taken terri home,to care for her,he would have been under tighter rules.had someone found her in a abused state,(witholding food and hydration)being an example he surely, would have faced charges, of somekind.
37 - Ken S.
All I can say is that her condition was caused by her not wanting the nurishment of food, she was bulemic. So to me it seems fitting to remove the tube, she wouldn't have wanted to be force fed while alive. Keep politics out of trying to interfere in a specific case, which is Unconstitutional. Tom Delay {Texas} and Bush {Texas) killed how many people with the death penalty? Non of these people got no where near the consideration from these two individuals, as this case has. Wonder how it would have been, if the parents were athiest?
38 - John Q. Public
To quote the author who started this discussion:
"I'm particularly sickened by the ghoulishness of your gimmick of subpoenaing Terri Schiavo. On what topic in particular do they expect Ms Schiavo to testify? It's as if life has turned into a particularly gruesome episode of South Park."
Guess what? As of tonight, this prophecy has borne itself out in tonight's episode of South Park. I guess art really imitates life.