Bush Hurries to Capital to Sign Legislation on Schiavo
As a deal in Congress was worked out to have federal courts decide Terri Schiavo’s fate, emotions swelled outside the brain-damaged woman’s hospice room Saturday, with protesters arrested after they symbolically tried to smuggle in bread and water on her second day without a feeding tube.
President Bush changed his schedule to return to Washington from his Texas ranch on Sunday to be on hand to sign the legislation.
Congressional leaders announced a compromise between Senate and House Republicans that would allow the brain-damaged woman’s case to be reviewed by federal courts that could restore her feeding tube. Opposition waned after House leaders agreed to give up broader legislation and accept a narrowly crafted bill that applied only to Schiavo’s case.
The Senate convened briefly Saturday evening to give formal permission for the House to meet Sunday, when it otherwise would be adjourned for the Easter recess.
The plan is for the House to act on the two-page bill Sunday or just after midnight Monday morning. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said the Senate then would act on the House legislation, assuming it passes the House as envisioned, and rush the bill to the president for signature into law.
This will not be the cleansweep some think it will be – - there will be those who will try to defeat the bill because they believe and understand this issue does not belong in the Congress and Senate. If this bill passes it will give the federal government the right to intrude into personal family decisions. This would mean that one day folks like Teddy Kennedy or Tom Delay could be calling the shots for you and your family during a painful trying time.
UHHH, Mike needs to be on the “list”….
Glad your back dude.
Quit ditching us Mike. Some of us miss you.
sorry fellas! I was in Barbados, see my link below….and I’ve been really busy.
Where are the bloodthirsty Dems? Never met a christian fundamentalist they wouldn’t torch, an invalid they won’t starve to death, an 8 year old cuban boy they won’t abduct…..but god forbid you try and take out a muslim animal..they scream bloody murder (literally)
Imagine the liberals outcry if Michael Schiavo was sentenced to die by starvation,which he deserves.Does anyone on here ever keep up with the news?Former nurses of Terri told their experiences with this monster.Like Carla Sauer Iyer.Michael was an abusive animal of a person that put Terri in this condition.On top of that he denied her therapy and treatment.I believe she would have recovered a long time ago if she was given the chance.I’d like to know why Reilly doesn’t tell the whole truth on this story.I guess some twisted agenda from a pseudo-conservative.Side with Michael and you side with a murderer.I think it is totally insane that the police there will arrest anyone trying to smuggle food to save her life.It sure looks like Nazi Germany.These are the tactics of Hitler,pretending to be compassionate while killing off all the handicap.If they get away with killing Terri you think that it is going to stop there?If you are not for life then you are for death,which makes you a bloodthirsty nazi.Michael Schiavo will rot in hell and so will those who folow his lead.
54- You mean the former nurse that was fired from her job because of false allegations?
Friends that said they never saw abuse? They were upset that Terri spent all her time with the Shaivos. If Terri went shopping with a girlfriend, the girlfriend had to drive so Michael could have the car, the one and only car they owned. You mean them? When Greta questioned them about Terris eating disorder, they were forced to admit that she had dropped from over 200 pounds to about the 120′s in a time period that seemed too rapid to be healthy. Are those the news clips you want us to follow?
“Bloodthirsty Deems”?
If life is so precious, how does this case relate to the death penalty?
it dosent..murderers forfeit their lives.
throw in child rapists with that as well..
Again, Bush and his Republican hypocrites in Congress are grand standing with a private family tragedy.
Bush is again displaying his absolute hypocrisy:
“WASHINGTON – As Texas governor, George W. Bush signed a law that allows hospitals to pull the plug on critically ill patients despite family objections – the kind of court-authorized move the president and fellow Republicans are challenging in the Terri Schiavo case…
“…Just last week, the Texas law resulted in what some call a first in the United States: A Houston hospital cut off life support for a badly deformed 6-month-old baby after his mother lost a court challenge. The baby died almost immediately.”
pro-Life my ass.
58- I see Einstein decided to join us. Why don’t you tell us your understanding of the actions the hospital took with this child.
And dg dislodges his head from his rectum once again demonstrates he knows no difference between an apple and an orange.
Which probably explains why he is so easily deceived and misled.
60-:lol::lol: Now his posts don’t even shock me.
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The mothership needs to come back for that one.
62-:lol:Oh that was a severe slapping he just took:lol::lol:
Will somebody remove dg from life support. “He’s Dead, Jim.”
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