Does Palin know how much fear she has imposed upon the elderly with her death-panel lies?
I heard a sad story yesterday, about an elderly lady in the early stages of dementia who is totally terrified about going to her doctor now because she thinks some sort of death panel will euthanize her and she will never walk out of the clinic.
It is obvious diminished mental capacity makes people ripe for Palin's fearmongering. And the ignorant conservatives don't help at all, because they protect their prejudices before they try to understand the truth, promoting Paln's lie rather than having compassion for their suffering loved-ones.
Do these wingnut politicians realize how awful that type of fear is to elderly and frail and sick people? Especially those who are surrounded by wingnuts?
Palin's callous remarks represent pernicious political cruelty. Does she even care how many elderly patients she has scared to death, literally? As usual, instead of trying to pose a serious dialog about healthcare, Palin takes the lazy way out, spitting deceptive statements out to foment fear.
It is obvious diminished mental capacity makes people ripe for Palin's fearmongering. And the ignorant conservatives don't help at all, because they protect their prejudices before they try to understand the truth, promoting Paln's lie rather than having compassion for their suffering loved-ones.
Do these wingnut politicians realize how awful that type of fear is to elderly and frail and sick people? Especially those who are surrounded by wingnuts?
Palin's callous remarks represent pernicious political cruelty. Does she even care how many elderly patients she has scared to death, literally? As usual, instead of trying to pose a serious dialog about healthcare, Palin takes the lazy way out, spitting deceptive statements out to foment fear.
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She wants them to be afraid, Jep. More's the pity. I hope it's not wrong to show you this:
Palin Looking Forward to Reading Her Own Book
(Andy Borowitz)
"Amid the publicity blitz for her new book, Going Rogue, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said today that "she was looking forward to reading it, big time."
Gov. Palin said that the book caught her interest as she was promoting it on Oprah last week.
"From everything I've said about it, it sure seems to be a page-turner," she said. "As soon as I'm off this book tour I can't wait to sink my teeth into it."
Former Miss California Carrie Prejean echoed Gov. Palin's sentiments: "I am also looking forward to reading my book."
May Cheney was on yesterday's Chris Wallace program lauding Palin, her book, and "joking" about a Cheney-Palin ticket for 2012; the panelists and Wallace thought she meant her dad; I'll bet she wants the job.
November 16, 2009 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
What proof do we have, Palin isn't a natural blonde? I want to see her birth certificate !!!!
November 17, 2009 5:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
Funny how there are no 'death panels' in this national health care plan, but there are in every other national health care plan that has ever been enacted. Just like abortion wasn't covered in it, until the Stupak amendment was added then abortion rights people went nuts. Odd, since Obama assured us abortion was not allowed in the bill before that amendment was added, so it should have been redundant.
The UK has a death panel, and a 'pathway' that people are placed on that leads to denial of care and their demise. Obama himself implied that an elderly woman might not qualify for expensive treatment, that a pain pill would be just as good for her. If you think when the gov't pays all the bills and calls all the shots they won't ration care you are a fool.
November 16, 2009 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
"an elderly woman might not qualify for expensive treatment, that a pain pill would be just as good for her"
That might just have well as pertained to practitioners taking advantage of the system, not denying the elderly care. A HUGE percentage of waste and fraud occur in the latter stages of healthcare, medicare being the simple example.
Bulldog, I have to say, ou seem intent on using the general ambiguity of language to twist Obama's words to always mean their worst definition.
November 16, 2009 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
It would be impossible to ration care more than the insurance mafia already does. I have news for you: Care SHOULD be rationed, but on the ability to benefit from it; not based on ability to pay.
Therefore, an 89 year-old bed-ridden patient does NOT need, and would NOT benefit from, for example, a heart-lung transplant. In fact her last days would be full of fear and pain and for no hope of a good outcome.
Try not to be so simple-minded when you talk about complicated issues. Oh - the British love their health care. One reason is because they all have it. No one -- NO ONE in Britain goes bankrupt over medical bills. No one.
If you want to see a fool, I suggest you look homeward.
November 16, 2009 4:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are simply wrong to assert that all in the UK love their NHS. I can assure you many in Canada do not love theirs. You also act as if it is free, it is not. They pay extremely high taxes to support it. As far as rationing that you endorse, that's the death panel right there, despite claims it does not exist.
November 16, 2009 6:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
The insurance industry ALREADY rations care, dipshit.
And, yes: with a public option, taxpayers will have a choice of either paying high premiums to the insurance inductry for nothing, or paying moderate taxes for guaranteed health care.
November 16, 2009 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahaha. Now I really cant stop laughing. hahaha
November 17, 2009 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Since you are so obviously ignorant, and the information is abundant; I don't think it is worth my time to refute your bogus and ill-informed claims. Try informing yourself; don't expect me to do it.
November 16, 2009 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK...I'll bite.
It's one thing to say ..."I can assure you many in Canada do not love theirs... and it's another thing to prove it.
If there are people in both Canada and the United Kingdom that hate their state-run medical services, then how about giving us the numbers of people who are against it and he number who appreciate it? Oh yeah, and verifiable number too, please? And from reliable institutions, not blogs, as well. I know for a fact both Canada and the United Kingdom spare no expense to keep track of numbers in this area.
And I have a cat who prefers boiled dog tongue over the field mice she catches outside - and she's hungry right now.
November 17, 2009 5:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
PBS has been running a "Frontline" on the several universal health care systems in place in various countries, including Britain. No system is perfect, therefore there is bound to be complaints -- the far-righter above demands perfection, or nothing.
There are, therefore, some complaints in Britain; but the system has actually been improved in those areas. And NO Brit wants to eliminate their system.
I believe it's in France that it would be "a scandal" if a person were to be bankrupted by health care bills.
The far-rights who oppose the public option do for two reasons:
1. They are stupid; therefore vote against their own interests, based upon --
2. Being one-party ideologues -- one-dimensional labels -- who refuse to think for themselves, reject truth as being irrelevant, and listen only to that which sounds good to them, without bothering with whether it is true or false.
The bottom line is that they prefer to hate, and to be told who to hate, instead of conducting themselves as intelligent adults who realize that not only is hate immoral, but the first -- and often only -- person injured by it is the hater.
November 17, 2009 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
The insurance industry rations care now, jackass.
Otherwise, you are full of shit -- both wholesale and retail. Reoeating insurance industry lies will not make them true.
November 16, 2009 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Health care coverage for illegal aliens was not mentioned the bill until the republicans raised a stink that without it being said explicitly they would be covered, so they had to include a few words to address no aliens would be covered. Just another republican IED set to go off and place blame on the democrats because it's all their bill. Republicans aren't vote for it - they just put in enough political IED's to make the democrats look like fools when they go off.
November 17, 2009 5:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Whoever gets the opportunity to debate this idiot should just recite individual outcomes relating to insurance death panels. Just cram the facts down her fucking throat.
November 16, 2009 6:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
"theCleverBulldog" is a dumb-ass bullshitter.
November 16, 2009 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink