AP: "GOP Asks Brain-Damaged Woman to Testify"

[Stephanie]

Is that a classic headline or what?



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20050318/ap_on_re_us/brain_damaged_woman_21

GOP Asks Brain-Damaged Woman to Testify

By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans embroiled in the life-or-death legal battle over the severely brain-damagedTerri Schiavo invited the Florida woman to testify to Congress in a procedural move intended to keep her on life support.

The Senate Health Committee has requested that Terri and her husband Michael appear at an official committee hearing on March 28. A statement from the office of House Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., on Friday said the purpose of the hearing was to review health care policies and practices relevant to the care of non-ambulatory people.

[cyberpj]

1. Duplicate Thread

Tom Delay on MSNBC says "we will save Terry's life" over Easter weekend!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3294256&mesg_id=3294256

[Stephanie]

4. I want everyone to see that headline so I posted - thanks

actually, yours is a dupe:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3292852&mesg_id=3292852

[sniffa]

2. "gurrrrrgggggLeee spffffftttttttttt gurgggggLeeee spfffffftttttt"

[deek]

19. clever eom

.

[stellanoir]

3. This qualifies

as sadism. IMHO

Compassionate conservatives. . .my ass.

[deek]

18. as do

most of the comments on this board making fun of Terri and her disability.

compassionate liberals,...me too

[sniffa]

21. *yawn*

i'm gLad you're making a difference though. :eyes:

[efhmc]

5. I would vote FOR this motion. Maybe, just maybe it would get the idea

into some people's heads of how evil and cruel and motivated by stupidity the repukes are.

[PST]

6. fucking animals nt

[LibDemAlways]

7. Poor Terri Schiavo has an excuse for her brain damage.

What the hell is Frist's excuse?

[bossfish]

8. Well, they chose one for Secretary of State...

...so no big surprise.

[Soopercali]

11. Not to mention....

They put one in the White House!

[barbaraann]

9. Can she vote?

Seriously, do the Republicans want to allow her to register and vote?

Didn't someone in Orlando just get indicted for registering illiterate people to vote?

[BOSSHOG]

10. Why do republicans want Ann Coulter to testify?

[blm]

12. Will they ask why she didn't read the Hart-Rudman report on Global Terror?

The one that was handed to her and her shitforbrains boss on Jan.30, 2001?

[On the Road]

13. Brain-DAMAGED? I Thought She Was Brain DEAD

and totally unresponsive. Are they just going to wheel her inert body in? Or was the plan all along just to make a short-term political gesture that will fall through?

[elperromagico]

14. Well, if the 9-11 Commission can ask Bush to testify...

There is a precedent.

And Bush bore a striking resemblance to poor Mrs. Schiavo on 9-11, didn't he?

[WindRavenX]

15. this can't be real

how barbaric!

[hfojvt]

16. If being brain damaged does not prevent a person

from being a GOP congressman, why should it exempt a person from testifying?

[elperromagico]

20. An excellent point. I doubt half of them can read.

[DearAbby]

17. Tap once for yes and Twice for no

Jeesus, what the hell are they doing? It's Florida's Freak show going on the road!