WTF! Why did the Senate Dems roll over on the "Terri Held Hostage" Bill?

It passed today via an unrecorded voice vote.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=598520

What the hell!? What gives with the lapdog posture of our proud "opposition party" on this important question (in terms of constitutional principles of "the rule of law" and the balance of power in addition to the obvious questions of family and life/death)? I'm ashamed.

Why did they roll on the bankruptcy bill...

so many important issues.

fuck 'em all. 'cept maybe Boxer and still Kerry, he's still fighting in the trenches and a smattering of others here and there that end up meaning Nothing
most don't represent Anything worthy except their MSM compliance.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3073295

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/healthscience/stories/031605dntexbaby.bc467.html

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3079622

Why do the Dems not mention this?

but who can say it where and to what audience and get it out?
I don't think CNN, for ex. is 'Live', do you?

What Dem Senators were even there today?

"WASHINGTON — With the sparsest of attendance, the Senate unanimously passed on Sunday a bill to try to help brain-damaged patient Terri Schiavo (search) by pushing her case into a federal court for consideration.

"sparsest of attendance" - is that Bill Frist by himself? what does that mean?

It doesn't sound like all 44 Democratic Senators were sitting there nodding "yes".

The Republicans are running this show and they are fighting the Courts.

The plan had been for the House to act first and then the Senate to pass the House version. But with Democrats forcing a delay in the House, the Senate went ahead and passed its own, identical, version by unrecorded voice vote.

How many Dem senators were even there? I know mine wasn't--he's in the Middle East! So is Boxer and so are a number of others, including Reid.

big issue up just after some airline tickets with Dems take off somewhere...

forgive my personal RAM limitations. Hopefully someone can run with more info on this.

clock sucking bastards.

work this thing through in the dead of night. It's one of their favorite ways of operating.

for some time. Some went back to the district on Thursday night./ They have appointments and schedules to attend to in their district. Some people like me get very upset when the congressperson has to cancel appointments and meetings that have been carefully set up for them. I get screaming fits. Find out how many Dem's were on the floor. and don't put it past the repukes to lie to the American people about the unanimous vote. Also how many voted, including repukes. Never believe the press or republicans. McCain should be put in jail.

thought.
It's about Bush's 'Ownership Society', he now wants own our very souls and private decisions all in the name of the Lard from Pig Farm Crawford.

four" Senators. I know Frist and Santorum were there because I saw them on C-span 2.

this mentioned by Wasserman (FL) at today's press conference. She's the only person i've heard mention this major league flippity-floppity.

too closely today, but friends from TX sent me the Hudson story last night--shouldn't this be big in respect to the Schiavo story? I mean--my God--the Bush hyprocrisy here is even bigger than his usual BS. He let a baby die--you'd think his religious right would be insane over that one! The mother says (just like Schiavo's parents) that the baby was responsive. Why is she different? Because she can't pay for care? It all boils down to money for the Bushies, I guess.

:spank:

That it is best for the Dems to stay out of the limelight and this way it looks like the Repukes interefere with peoples personal lives. The courts will decide this ultimately not the legislative branch.

and let the repukes do as they please, no fight.

There must be a good reason for this.

But I won't forgive the Dems for rolling over on the Bankruptcy Bill..... There is simply no excuse in my opinion.

They didn't. They went along with the idiocy.

we can stop it in the house. It only needs to be held up a few hours.

Would you like to explain that?

I don't see how we can stop it.

just keep it from being voted on till late monday or tuesday and there will be no need for a vote.

I don't see how it can be delayed any more.

The Senate was the only body that could have held it up any more than a few hours.

I heard that about the bankruptcy bill, mmm, year or so ago, maybe less. No one really believed it could be passable, so close to reality, then.

but it is.

bullshit centrist can't we all get along policies. no spine.

that ChimpCo would just love to see Dems tearing out each other's throat over?

:shrug:

and we keep buying it over and over again for the same god damned show.

Apparently polling is going 80-20 in favor of keeping the tube away and not having Congress intervene -- but what Reid did with the voice vote was to ensure only Repunk fingerprints are on it. This is on DeLay's and Frists' evil souls now, and America knows it, even through the sad-ass media that we have. THAT is what the Dems did tonight.

Besides, unless the Federal courts really want to get messed up in upturning precedent on an issue they want no part of, I frankly don't expect them to do anything when the case finally gets to their benches. I've been wrong before, but this looks pretty cut-and-dried. I wouldn't even expect the Supremes -- other than Scumbag Scalia and his lap dog Clarence -- to touch it.

That we're talking about political impacts of this is tragic, but at least it's the right political move.

Once when the Schindlers took it there and once when the House leadership tried, in the middle of the night (on Friday?), to send it to a federal court.

Check out this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1673169&mesg_id=1673169

that there was an initial objection. That is being "resolved" now that the House is in session again.

I was referring to the voice vote in the Senate, which passed without objection.

I didn't read your post carefully enough.

Cheers!

would be a more comforting reason than the truth, which is that they are part of the same machine as their colleagues, the repukes, who are bent on completing the class war they have been waging for the last three generations.

After some statements tonight by our opposition "leaders," I'm about to bolt on the Dem Party as it now stands. The fact that the House Dem leadership is letting all of it's members to "vote their conscience" is appalling to me, considering the gross abuse of law that is happening. I've been hanging on by a thread to the party and until the Bankruptcy Bill I was fine, now with that bill and no opposition to this current mockery of the courts, I'm almost done with them.

Wake me up when we get real Progressives in office and not these rollover, corporate whores we have now.