Of course the irony of this is that the very provision that Reid is
trying to make reversal-proof by changing Senate rules is the very
provision that Palin objected to -- the one that basically ensures old
folks get the short end of the health care resource rationing
envisioned by the bill.
So she used a metaphor -- death panels -- to describe the
committee/task force/whatever that decides who gets how much and what
health care resources (with a pronounced and open preference for
younger vs. older people) -- and the media get's all technical ("there
no such term 'death panel' in the bill!")....But, in terms of intent,
it's not only in there, but also bragged about by top advisers to the
president, including both John Holdren and Ezekiel Emmanuel.
Hope all you old fogies who don't have years to wait for Supreme Court
challenges to bubble up through the appellate system have a back up
plan for survival/life support if this godawful bill becomes law....
- Publius
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA
<[email protected]> wrote:
> There are liars, damn liars, and then there's politicians. LOL
>
> Regards,
>
> LelandJ
>
>
>
> On 12/23/2009 12:49 AM, Adam Buckland wrote:
>>
>> Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has won the dubious
>> honour of telling the biggest political lie of the year. A panel of
>> experts ruled her claim the Obama administration was planning to
>> introduce "death panels" was chosen as the most misleading statement of
>> 2009.
>>
>> Palin, 45, made the claim on her Facebook page at the height of the
>> debate over President Obama's plans to reform the US health care system.
>>
>> She wrote: "My parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand
>> in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide whether
>> they are worthy of health care."
>>
>> But the website PolitiFact.com found that there were never any plans to
>> introduce so called "death panels" to decide who should live or die.
>>
>> According to the website Palin's statement on her Facebook page
>> generated a huge controversy and was mentioned almost 6,000 times over
>> the next two months.
>>
>>
>>> From The Daily Telegraph, a right wing newspaper from the UK
>>
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