Quote: The FBI arrested a North Carolina man for sending an e-mail offering a bounty of $250,000 dollars to anyone who would kill Michael Schiavo and $50,000 for killing a judge who has ruled in favor of the husband in the case.
The man, Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview, North Carolina, was charged with solicitation of murder and sending threatening communications and could face up to 15 years in prison, said the U.S. Attorney's office in Tampa, Florida.
Lobbied by the Christian right, which has felt emboldened since helping President Bush win re-election last November, the Republican-led Congress rushed through a law last weekend giving federal courts jurisdiction.
But the extraordinary move was unpopular with Americans. Polls this week showed a majority of people disapproved of Congress' intervention in a family dispute -- and the Schindlers' efforts in federal courts have so far failed.
Commentators critical of the congressional move have praised the federal courts for rebuffing the push to circumvent state court rulings.
Terry Randall has also said if Jeb Bush doesn't intervene (illegally I presume), "there will be hell to pay"
Quote: Loudest among them was Operation Rescue's Randall Terry, who said "there will be hell to pay" if Bush doesn't intervene.
Somewhere in all of this the rule of law must prevail, or we are all lost. Bush's brief flirtation with taking the law into his own hands was a serious mistake that could cost the GOP for years to come.
One by one, Republicans around the state began announcing: "Enough."
"I am a longstanding registered, voting Republican, but after watching this disgusting display, I am gone," wrote Ray Snyder of Crawfordville in a letter to the editor in the Tallahassee Democrat Friday. "I see the dark ages of the Inquisition being born again. Someone needs a large dose of sanity and common sense, but it may already be too late."
This fiasco really is exposing the lunatic religious extremism that passes for The Republican Party these days.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers
"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush
I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would .. try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. - Condoleeza Rice
Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor
To comfort the powerless and make the powerful uncomfortable.
