Losman-McGahee-Evans

If we pull this off and trade Clements for the no.9 pick and are able to trade down for another 2nd rounder I would dance a jig in myh boss's office wearing nothing but a jockstrap and a Bills football helmet. You've been warned.

If a guy like Smith, Benson, or C Williams falls then people will want to trade up.

If we can swing this trade and possibly trade down, even trade out of the 1st round entirely if we get enough picks in return, then we can do more than draft for need. We can also draft players who could allow us to dump high-priced but average perfroming players on our roster which really makes us able to sustain a long run at the ring. Imagine if we trade down in the first for an extra 2nd rounder : 01 - DT Travis Johnson (FSU) 02 - OG Marcus Johnson (MIS) 02 - CB Bryant McFadden (FSU) 03 - TE Kevin Everett (MIA) Could you imagine?

Our parayers should be with Terry and her family. The constitution held after all and indeed the system does work. I feel so bad for Terry that she was put thorugh this but at least now she can pass in peace.

In other words you're going to pull the car over?

Actually I'm not. If you look at the latest CBS poll you'll see it found that 82 percent of the public was opposed to Congress and the president intervening in this case; 74 percent thought it was all about politics. If you look at the ABC poll you see that : - 70% of Americans say it is inappropriate for Congress to involve itself in the Schiavo case. - 67% of Americans “think the elected officials trying to keep Schiavo alive are doing so more for political advantage than out of concern for her or for the principles involved.” (Just 19% believe the elected officials are acting out of concern for her or their principles.) - 58% of Republicans, 61% of independents and 63% of Democrats oppose federal government intervention in the case. - 50% of evangelicals oppose federal government intervention in the case, just 44% approve of the intervention. - 63% of Catholics and a plurality of evangelicals believe Schiavo’s feeding tube should be removed. The fact is that in three little paragraphs, Tom Delay has called the woman with a liquified cerebral cortex a gift from God, compared her situation to his own, and used her to uncover a vast left-wing conspiracy determined to topple Tom DeLay and the values of conservatism. If you're crazy enough to believe that's true then you'll never understand why this wrong. As far as being the only REAL Republican I've never claimed I was. I am indeed an ACTUAL Republican and its indisputable but don't worry about me. These are the folks you should be worrying about because they do think you're not a REAL Republican : "David Davenport of the Hoover Institute, a conservative research organization beleives that, "When a case like this has been heard by 19 judges in six courts and it's been appealed to the Supreme Court three times, the process has worked - even if it hasn't given the result that the social conservatives want. For Congress to step in really is a violation of federalism." Stephen Moore, a conservative advocate who is president of the Free Enterprise Fund, said: "I don't normally like to see the federal government intervening in a situation like this, which I think should be resolved ultimately by the family: I think states' rights should take precedence over federal intervention. A lot of conservatives are really struggling with this case." Some more moderate Republicans are also uneasy. Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, the sole Republican to oppose the Schiavo bill in a voice vote in the Senate, said: "This senator has learned from many years you've got to separate your own emotions from the duty to support the Constitution of this country. These are fundamental principles of federalism." "It looks as if it's a wholly Republican exercise," Mr. Warner said, "but in the ranks of the Republican Party, there is not a unanimous view that Congress should be taking this step." ===== "My party is demonstrating that they are for states' rights unless they don't like what states are doing," said Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut, one of five House Republicans who voted against the bill. "This couldn't be a more classic case of a state responsibility." "This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy," Mr. Shays said. "There are going to be repercussions from this vote. There are a number of people who feel that the government is getting involved in their personal lives in a way that scares them." ===== You and these rapture fundamentalists that want to turn our country into a religious theocracy (Delay said so in FRIDAY) just like Iran are not Republicans. Republicans believe in seperation of powers and states rights. What is occuring here is the rapid destruction of the Republican party by a group of a$$ clowns who sold my once great party out to these religious zealots in order to benefit themsleves. On that they will easily marginalize my party and for what?

This simply isn't a left/right issue, or even a Dem/Repub issue, but a world vs. a hijacked country/party issue. In that sense it reveals these folks as the farthest thing from a Republicna as one can imagine. The Terri Schiavo case is unbelievably complex, multilayered, too steeped in unknown or unknowable facts for me - indeed for most people - to have a fully informed opinion. I don't know - and neither do any of you - if Michael Shiavo is trying to murder his wife or trying to fulfill her stated wishes for just such a scenario. I don't know what Terri Schiavo would want - and neither do you - because she didn't tell us via a living will. We have only the word of her husband who assures us that his wife once said she wouldn't want to be kept alive this way, and we have her parents, who love their daughter and desire only to care for her. I do know that the Congress did the wrong thing, intervened where it had no Constitutional right, and solved nothing. I also know that this is not an act of principle but an act of political football with Terry being tossed around as such. It is absolutely immoral what is occuring here and as a party we are getting killed over this. Look no further than the poll numbers and you see that we truly are in serious trouble. Why? Because the majority of americans on do not agree with this because the more people see Terry the more people realize that they would want to be allowed to pass and they are repulsed that a government would shred the constitution and states rights to keep them alive in order to distract folks from a indictment of its majority leader that is comming any day and to have an issue to run on in 2006 because we lied to them about the social security "crisis", Iraq and that tax cuts would turn the economy around.

No wonder Pataki is getting CREAMED in polls vs Spitzer.

Selective memory? HOW ABOUT READING MY POST, RAY CHARLES? "After his first tax cut as President, Ronald Reagan signed into law THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY. " The great thing about being told I'm not a Republican by you is that you're too ignorant to understand that I (Along with Reagan and Warner and McCain and Shays and others) are indeed Republicans. You're being led by a Federalist who is telling people that he's a Republican and you are too stupid to understand the difference between the two.

Taxing and spending makes me a Democrat? After his first tax cut as President, Ronald Reagan signed into law THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY. He's also a tax and spend Republican which I guess makes him a Democrat as well but only if you're a complete idiot who can't think past cliches like "tax and spend". McCain may be a Democrat in Republican clothing but HE REFUSED TO BE KERRY'S VP. Just because you are asked to kill someone doesn't make you a murderer does it? At least in your world it does.

Maybe finally my party is beginning to realize that being the party that governs as a religious theocracy versus via the constitution will result in only short term victories while likely making us a minority extremist party for the long term. "Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, the sole Republican to oppose the Schiavo bill in a voice vote in the Senate, said: "This senator has learned from many years you've got to separate your own emotions from the duty to support the Constitution of this country. These are fundamental principles of federalism." "It looks as if it's a wholly Republican exercise," Mr. Warner said, "but in the ranks of the Republican Party, there is not a unanimous view that Congress should be taking this step." In interviews over the past two days, conservatives who expressed concern about the turn of events in Congress stopped short of condemning the vote in which overwhelming majorities supported the Schiavo bill, and they generally applauded the goal of trying to keep Ms. Schiavo alive. But they said they were concerned about what precedent had been set and said the vote went against Republicans who were libertarian, advocates of states' rights or supporters of individual rights. "My party is demonstrating that they are for states' rights unless they don't like what states are doing," said Representative Christopher Shays of Connecticut, one of five House Republicans who voted against the bill. "This couldn't be a more classic case of a state responsibility." "This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy," Mr. Shays said. "There are going to be repercussions from this vote. There are a number of people who feel that the government is getting involved in their personal lives in a way that scares them." This post is for people like Alaska Darin, JoeSixPack et al who loudly yell that I'm not really a Republican because I believe (Along with Sen. Warner, McCain and Rep. Shays and the other Republicans who voted against this) in REAL Republicna values and recognize that this is simply a party who is manipulating the emotions of a family for a brief political advantage. What the people who moronicly accuse me of not being a Republican don't realize is that as the American people read the GOP stategy memo on how to maximize the imapct of this stunt or hear the tape out today of Friday's conversation with evangelical big money donors saying that he "delivered the Schiavo girl for you now you've got to deliver help for my defense fund against the indictment when it comes (The grand jury indictment that is coming from the TRMPAC investigation)". It took us less than 10 years as the majority party to become more corrupt than the Democratic party took over 40 to become. This just isn't Bush or Delay or Armey or Hastert or Frist or Santorum's fault. Its people who either do not care to realize what is happening or aren't able to understand it. Win at all costs doesn't work long term in sports and it doesn't work in life nor politics. Its sad that people have to learn that at the expense of an enitre party's future. Additionally, don't bother complaining to me about this opinion. Call Sen. Warner and the others who don't agree with you and tell them they're not really Republicans.

Exactly!! Thanks!

Anyone remember who posted that last week?

Not saying they never had. I'm just stickeing to the argument.

To me it seems like this is just a family who is hurting and wants to blame someone. If there was any real evidence he would've been charged at some point.

I think that one party interprets that ammendment to bear arms and the other party believes takes that right to the extreme. I'm a lifelong member of the NRA and hunt all the time. I don't believe that people should own .50 calibre sniper rifles or heavy machine guns espeically since it's been written in Al Qaeda training manuals that because of our lax laws they should abuse our system by buying guns to use against us at a later date. As Bush said "9-11 changed everytihng" and you're either "with the terrorists or against them".

We're dealing with a specific issue. Provide me a copy of the memo that Dems circulated about this specific issue.

Then why didn't the federal appelas court vacate or overrule thier rulling? Then why didn't the Supreme Court hear the case?

I'm not going to speculate on anything related to an investigation because I don't have all the facts. As far as not wanting to be around what is now a media circus orchestrated by religious zealots who are manipulating her family as politcla pawns, I would avoid that at all costs.

What specific state statute is their ruling in violation of?

No. Democrats repect the constitution and state's rights in this instance. If you can produce a Democratic memo talking about how to take politicla advantage of this I'd like to see it. You can't.

Democrats have not circulated any memo's outlining a strategy to capitilize on what should be a private family matter.

She is dead and has been for years. The courts have decided in Terry's favor and Bush is shredding the constitution, trampling on state's right, and disregarding the rule of law for a cheap political point with religious extremists.

How about the Republican memo that was distributed to Republican senators by party leaders that called the case a "great political issue" and a "tough issue for Democrats," per the WaPost. It said the case would excite the party's anti-abortion base and put pressure on Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who faces re-election next year." This is just more political grandstanding on the Republicans' part and it sickens me. We used to be much better than this.

Link?