Schiavo's death steps up push for end-of-life legislation in U.S.

[rodeodance]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002227121_tschiavo01.html

Friday, April 01, 2005, 12:00 A.M. Pacific

Schiavo's death steps up push for end-of-life legislation in U.S.

By Seattle Times news services

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Terri Schiavo slipped away yesterday, dying with a stuffed animal tucked under her arm as a national debate raged about the ethics, politics and spiritual significance of her life and death.

Within minutes of the brain-damaged woman's death, social and religious conservatives vowed to crusade against federal judges who refuse to intervene in such cases, and to seek legislation to protect incapacitated patients.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, who led the fight for the bill that failed to persuade federal judges to reconsider the Schiavo case, blasted "an arrogant, out-of-control judiciary that thumbed its nose at Congress."

"The legal system did not protect people who need protection most, and that will change. The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior," DeLay pledged in a statement. more....

[saigon68]

1. delay= Fundy Hateful Right-Wing Nut-Case

What more can you say about this evil exploiter of the poor and sick for his own ego.

What a Maniac.

[undergroundpanther]

2. weird

** Verse 6 in revelations says: "In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them."

/ i.e. they will attempt to commit suicide to end the torment, but for some reason, will be unable to achieve it.


It is interesting thing to ponder considering whom was funding part of Terrie's bills,and how she got in the state she was in to begin with..
Staging the Apocalypse?.

These religious fanatics are dangers to our constitution and country.

[Trillo]

3. You'll get tied up in knots trying to understand Revelation

I don't know if there's any truth there. A truth, too terrible to be spoken, is turned into story. Then story is turned into story of story. Then it's translated into another language: now it's a story of a story of a story. Etcetera. How deep does the rabbit hole go? Eventually, it becomes so deeply derivative, if there's any truth there its under so many layers you can't dig the original meaning out.

Too deep a hole has been dug.

Better to listen to our times and our own lives and experiences. That, at least, we know.

[rodeodance]

4. art. says "But they may not get far"(interferes with Bush Agenda)

This may be right. The WH has its priorities.


....Difficult political issue
"They may hold hearings, but this is a difficult one for Congress to take on, and may interfere with the rest of the Bush agenda," said Ross Baker, a Rutgers University expert on Congress.

If nothing else, conservative Republicans in the Senate are expected to dig in further on their insistence that judicial nominees receive a vote on the floor. And when a Supreme Court seat opens, the debate over judicial temperament surely will dominate the political stage.

While Republicans were critical of the judges in the Schiavo case, conservative judges seemed at least as likely as liberals to oppose federal intervention.......

[Stockholm]

5. Have republicans overplayed their hand?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1449953,00.html

An ABC news poll taken on the day that Congress passed a measure that would empower a US judge to order the reinsertion of the feeding tube, found that 63% of the public supported removing it against 28% against.

The poll also found that the public opposed congressional involvement in the case by a huge 70% to 27%.

The vote was carried with a significant amount of support from Democrats. Nonetheless, most Americans doubted the political motives of the Republican-controlled Congress, with 67% believing that they had focused on the Schiavo case for partisan political advantage.

However, polls show that opposition to the congressional measure and support for removing the tube has had bipartisan support. The ABC poll showed that 54% of conservatives and 61% of Republicans back Ms Schiavo's widower, in his decision to allow her to die.

snip

The article also mention a plunge for * popularity...

[Child_Of_Isis]

8. You would never

had thought this by listening to the media. Most of the reports that I watched more or less described the removal as murder. Why? Why would the media continue on and on with this 'murder' thing when most of the population felt that she had a right to die? Has it become their job to instigate continuous conflict among the populace? I think so...

[TahitiNut]

6. Who's supposed to "CONTROL" the judiciary??

This reminds me of the comment about "my judges stay loyal" that Smirk(?) made.

DeLay is pissed that the Republican judges didn't toe the line, despite the very well-settled law in this regard.

It sounds to me like he has reason for those "expectations" ... just not in this matter.

[salin]

9. DeLay isn't pissed necessarily... DeLay just sees an opportunity

he has to give his financial backers the impression that he is still in control of the congress so he can keep squeezing them and buying others off. Given his weakened status due to this very performance, he needs an opportunity to grand stand, raise funds and attempt to demonstrate that he is still the Hammer.

[wildwww2]

7. Who are these motherfuckers that think they can legislate my life?

It bad enough the cocksuckers weaseled their way out of counting my vote. Now they want to be able to make me survive like a vegetable for their amusement. I only wish there was a hell these pieces of garbage could roast in. They surely deserve it.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[Daphne08]

10. If they try this

they will have shot themselves in the foot.

My mother is a conservative Republican and she is outraged that politicians placed themselves in a family matter like they did. (She has her own living will as do I.)

On second thought, let them go ahead and do it...

[CO Liberal]

11. DeLay Is An Arrogant, Out-Of-Control Jerk That Thumbs His Nose at The Law

He's got to go - NOW!!!!!

[Norquist Nemesis]

12. "out-of-control judiciary"

Out of control by whom? Tom DeLay and his masters?

What's so very sad about the ultra-hype hysterical rhetoric DeLay (and many other extremists of his ilk who are getting face time in the MSM), is they are sprouting the seeds they planted into the public (sub)conscience. Example: there were reports regarding the guy here in Illinois who murdered a Judge's husband and mother that he spoke about "activist judges". He believed he'd been harmed by the judges, not wronged by the system.

The DeLays of this country use the rhetoric to push emotional buttons and start putting a face on whatever they don't agree with. Did you know that it is Saddam Hussein who personally opened containers that gassed his own people? :eyes: Now, Judge Greer is the single man solely responsible for Terri Schiavo's death through the courts; her adultering estranged spouse conspired with him to make it happen. :crazy:

This is about control of every aspect of your life from conception, through childhood, teens, career, retirement, and even your death.:banghead: