And hey, speaking of bottom feeders:

DeLay vows judiciary changes after Schiavo case
By Jeff Franks, 31 Mar 2005, Reuters

HOUSTON, - U.S. House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay said the U.S. judiciary "thumbed its nose" at the president and Congress in the Terri Schiavo case and warned on Thursday changes would be made in the judicial system.

He pulled a small copy of the U.S. Constitution out of his coat pocket and said Florida and federal judges had failed to live up to it.

"The Congress of the United States for many years has shirked its responsibility to hold the judiciary accountable. No longer," he said in a news conference in Houston, where his district is located.

"We will look at an arrogant, out of control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at the Congress and president when given jurisdiction to hear this case anew and look at all the facts," an angry DeLay told reporters.

In a statement issued shortly after Schiavo's death, DeLay said, "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today."

It was not immediately clear what DeLay can or would do with the federal bench, though judicial nominees offered by the president must be confirmed by the Senate.

During the past four years, the Senate has confirmed about 200 of Bush's judicial nominees, virtually all of them seen as conservative. Yet DeLay and many other conservatives feel betrayed by the courts in the Schiavo case. [snip]

"I never thought I'd see the day the United States of America would have a judge stop feeding and giving water to a living American who would then take 14 days to die," DeLay said.

"It's not a day we will forget. We will work as hard as we can to stop this from happening." [snip]

A federal appeals court judge on Wednesday sharply rebuked Congress and Bush for intervening in the Schiavo case, saying they had overstepped their constitutional powers.

"Despite sincere and altruistic motivation, the legislative and executive branches of our government have acted in a manner demonstrably at odds with our Founding Fathers' blueprint for the governance of a free people," wrote Judge Stanley Birch of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Birch was appointed to the bench in 1990 by Bush's father, President George Bush.

But DeLay said the justice system had "failed Terri Schiavo" by not giving her a fair hearing. He accused Greer of having "all kinds of conflicts of interest" in the case, but he did not say what they were.

He also accused husband Michael Schiavo, who sought the tube removal because he said his wife would not have wanted to live in her current state, of having conflicts of interest.

"Terri Schiavo was not represented in that courtroom," he said.

DeLay's father died in 1988 after the DeLay family, including Tom, chose to take him off life-support machines after an accident him left him comatose.

Critics of DeLay said his ardent support for maintaining Schiavo's life was a hypocritical play to social conservatives, but he said the two cases were not alike.

"My father was dying. He was kept alive 30 days on life support. His organs were shutting down, he was in a coma. He would have died within hours on the life support," he said.

Democrats say DeLay, who was last year admonished three times by the House ethics committee, has been using the Schiavo case to distract attention from these problems, criticism he rejects.

So the Majority Leader says "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today." That sure sounds like he’s threatening the judges, doctors, and Mr. Schiavo. Just what does it sound like to you?

The judge already is surrounded by armed guards because of the inflammatory rhetoric the wackos have been loosely tossing around. One North Carolina lunatic is in jail for solicitation of murder. One of Randall Terry’s close associates killed an abortion doctor, an act that won Terry’s praise. If someone gets killed here, DeLay will certainly have some of the blood on his hands - the filthy, rotten, unchristian, pandering, political whore. And I mean that in a good way.