Most lawmakers want to forget Schiavo case

[sabra]

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Most lawmakers want to forget Schiavo case
4/6/2005, 8:36 a.m. CT

By LAURIE KELLMAN
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress returned from a two-week Easter recess with mixed emotions about its intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, the mostly negative public reaction and whether more legislation is warranted.

While a few lawmakers sought to punish the federal judges who rebuffed their hastily passed law aimed at getting Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted, most tried to put some distance between their action in March and what's on their plate this month.

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Some lawmakers still are seething over the Palm Sunday vote, even though Democrats in the Senate filed no objection to it.

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However, other Republicans, chastened by polls showing that a large majority of Americans disapproved of Congress inserting itself into the Schiavo case, said both parties should back off from any efforts to take further action.

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[MADem]

1. I don't think we should LET THEM

I think we should bring up their craven cowardice at every opportunity, the putzes! And use it to get as many of the real bums as possible out of there in 06!

[rodeodance]

6. Neither do I. The whole scene was terrible-and the MEDIA should also

be held accountable. But how?

[sabra]

12. 2006 is indeed the target....

[reality based]

2. I don't plan on accommodating them

[rodeodance]

4. There is hearing today about people in this position-how better to

protect them. Wonder if c-span will cover.

[reality based]

21. I suppose they can find a federal issue in there somewhere

but the midnight legislation was a big mistake for these guys. Almost everyone has or potentially will have to confront issues similar to those involved in this case. I have had four involving my family in the past decade. They are not simple black and white calls. They require quiet prayer and informed judgment. They are uniquely inappropriate for political grandstanding. Individually, they are not matters appropriate for debate in the mass media or for decision by popular or representative vote of perfect strangers. No one wanted this woman to die. No one really wants to die. But as the scripture says "To everything there is a season." Contrast the unseemly squabbling and demonstrating and commentary surrounding the Schiavo death with the dignity permitted the Pope in dealing with his own season of death. Life, this life, while of great importance, is not everything. The Christo-Fascists are seriously out of step with human experience in their raucous, unholy, idolatrous, and single minded worship of the feeding tube and we should not let them get away unscathed.

[callous taoboy]

3. Gone but not forgotten, I say:

2006, you assholes.

[cthrumatrix]

5. 2006 the people will remember their grandstanding

[rodeodance]

9. a Senate Health Committee hearing WednesdaY--whow, Repugs called

a hearing on this.




"I think we ought to let the rhetoric cool off," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Tuesday.

Nonetheless, Congress returned this week bubbling with the emotional issues and public policy debates raised by Schiavo's plight. A Senate committee looking at whether the treatment of disabled people such as Schiavo should be better defined was warned by the father of a retarded Kansas man to tread carefully.

"Those debates frighten me, and they should alarm you, too," Rud Turnbull of Lawrence, Kan., the father of 37-year-old Jay Turnbull, said in remarks prepared for a Senate Health Committee hearing Wednesday. "The slippery slope is slick and awaits us all.".....

[WindRavenX]

7. I want to move on

And maybe give some attention to the 40 million people in America, the richest country on Earth, WHO ARE WITHOUT HEALTH CARE :grr:

[rodeodance]

11. maybe we can hope the committee will broach this topic?

[WindRavenX]

16. not a chance in hell

The Republicans care two shits about people who are actually alive, working, and middle-class. It's all about the fetuses, don't you see? x(

[AlCzervik]

8. How many of them went to her funereal service yesterday?

Oh thats right, it's all over now so they will kick the Schindlers to the curb.

[gratuitous]

10. "Even though Democrats . . . filed no objection"

Laurie Kellman, the writer of this piece, is stupid. You don't interrupt your adversary when he's making a mistake. The extraordinary intervention into the Schiavo matter was a colossal mistake, and looks worse every day. Why would the Democrats want to file an objection to the Republicans forming a circular firing squad?

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

But it DOES give her a chance to play the ever-popular "both sides are at fault" card whenever the Republicans blunder.

Maybe she's a media whore.

[rodeodance]

14. I wonder if this is the Senate hearing on health today?

http://help.senate.gov/bills/hlh_71_bill.html

Health Care Provided to Non-ambulatory Persons

Bill Number:
Status:
Introduced to Senate Referred Hearing Mark-Up Senate Floor for Vote Post Vote
Hearing Date: April 6, 2005, 9:30 am
Location: SD562

* Mr. Rud Turnbull
* Dr. James L. Bernat
* Dr. Deborah Warden
* Dr. J. Donald Schumacher

[rfkrfk]

22. for Dems, being invisible in the Senate is good, but not the House ?

a reasonable number of House Dems actually bothered
to be interested in deceiding this difficult issue,
in the Senate, one Dem Senator was on the floor to vote
in the Schiavo matter.

[warrens]

13. They broke it, they own it

I hope this becomes a major campaign issue next year.

[mopinko]

15. NEVER FORGET!!!!!

[liberal N proud]

17. This should become the cornerstone issue to the corruption in

politics today.
This story would never made it past the Tampa local news outlets if it had not been for an aggressive congressman who was/is under scrutiny for his misconduct and corruption.
These people should all be held accountable for their opportunistic behavior at the cost of a families bonds. Some family values!
The media should be held accountable for playing to these radical activist.
We should never allow one Congressman who vote for this act to get away with the damage they have done to the constitution with this little fiasco

[sabra]

18. "Hundreds Gather to Remember Terri Schiavo"

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=644377

While they want to forget Terri, the people who really cared honored her...

[knight_of_the_star]

19. We shouldn't let them

We should hound down the GOP for the next two years and not let the public forget who did what in this tragedy.

[Rose Siding]

20. They don't want the public to associate it with the fight over judges

The polls are clear; if the Schiavo case is connected with the nuke option, dems will have public support -even tho they weren't vocally forceful *during* Schiavo, being oppositional to repubs now who were, would benefit them.