Sarah Palin, she of the frozen tundra where they appear to suffer from constant ‘foot in mouth’ disease is once again scrambling to explain she had good cause to put her foot in her mouth. Defending her claims of ‘death panels’ Palin once again posted to her Facebook page another Rube Goldberg contortion for her outrageous exploitation of her own Down syndrome son.
In her posting, Palin wrote: “With all due respect, it’s misleading for the president to describe this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients,” and added, “It’s all just more evidence that the Democratic legislative proposals will lead to health care rationing.”
Oregon Rep Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) spoke out vehemently against such irresponsible rhetoric calling it ‘mind numbing’.
Blumenauer called the comments despicable and part of an orchestrated effort by Republicans to discredit the health care overhaul and scare seniors.
In nearly four decades of public life, “this is the starkest example I’ve ever seen of how, if we’re not careful, political discourse dissolves into some type of partisan cage-fighting, where there are no rules and anything goes,†said Blumenauer, 60.
Even Republicans are appalled by her perpetuation of the ‘death panel’ myth.
Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson, a Republican who co-sponsored a similar measure in the Senate, said it was “nuts†to claim the bill encourages euthanasia.
Sarah Palin should really ‘quit making things up’.
UPDATE: There is a new verb in the political lexicon ‘Palinize’ and Republican Michelle Bachmann does some fund raising so that she will not be Palinized.
Meanwhile the democrats, not to be outdone are also using Palin to raise funds
the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is using Palin’s “death panels†claim in a fundraising plea to supporters, calling the former governor’s statement “disgusting†and “outrageous.â€
Also, Michael Scherer lets Palin have it as well
The former Alaskan governor, Sarah Palin, better explains today why she is concerned about President Obama’s support for allowing doctors to offer living will consultations to patients with government funding. It is, I believe, a must read, if only as an exercise in logic. Palin is arguing in plain terms that doctors cannot be trusted to give advice to patients, a rather stunning turn.
Yeah, Palin is crowing too. Am going to put a post from Maddow last night that proves the talking heads don’t even believe what they say.
You will like it.
And this from News Hounds !! Knuckledraggers one and all, they just cain’t wrap them brains around something so simple as a Living Will ! YOU CAIN’T FIX STUPID.
Fox Nation Claims “Victory” On “End Of Life” Provision
We have a number of categories which we use to classify our threads. Unfortunately we don’t have one for stupidity because that would include any Fox Nation thread. One of today’s ledes put forth a claim this claim: “FOX Nation Victory! Senate Removes ‘End of Life’ Provision.” The Fox Nation writers don’t seem to know that the Senate bill is just one of a number of bills which haven’t yet passed the full House. Meanwhile the Senate has its own bill which hasn’t passed out of commitee. Bottom line, there are miles to go before this becomes law. But Fox Nation claims a victory for all those scared and stupid seniors who fear the Obama reaper who is trying to save money by killing white seniors in order to pay for health care for brown illegals. I’m being snarky here; but one wonders if that is stuck somewhere in the limited cranium space of Fox Nation. BTW, check out the title of the second lede: “Why Is Axelrod Sending Them E-Mails”? Is that heartland ebonics or is “them” the indirect object of the verb?
I was at Peters’ town hall. The ignorance abounds. I’m amazed. One young man insisted on showing me his hand-out, carefully folded for me to read, whereby they’re setting up Death Boards. He was reading this:
Myth – Death boards, etc.
Truth – lada lada lada.
He didn’t even know what ‘myth’ meant. Try as I might, I tried to show him he was reading a Myth, not reality. When I refolded his paper to show the truth he got embarrased and continued to cheer on the opponants to health care changes. Looked at me dumbfounded at the truth, and continued to believe the myth, not even knowing the difference when showed to him. UnF’n believable.
The other two parties immediately next to me crowed and cheered with the crowd against what Peter was trying to explain, one woman cheered Tort Reform, when she stopped cheering, I asked her what that meant? She stared and said she didn’t know. The lady in front of me cheered like crazy about the 10th Amendment, when I asked her what the 10th Amendment was, she said she didn’t know. I said to her since she was cheering it’s demise, surely she knew what she was cheering about? She did not.
I’m sure it was a coincidence, and the rest of the opposers were some where else in the room.
There’s no excuse for ignorance on this issue. We can disagree, but how do you fight “Ignorant And Proud Of It?”