Monday, August 10, 2009

Stay classy, Sarah

Alaskan quit machine Sarah Palin, doing her best to spread the new lie of choice for health care opponents:
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Ah yes, Obama's Death Panel. A quasi-secret mechanism by which a public insurance option triggers a masked panel of black robed inquisitors who decide whether Down's syndrome children, people who believe in God, and the elderly are either cast into the Pit of Carkoon or ground into a paste and combined with a sort of root marm to provide a new form of sustenance for those of us still suffering under the yoke of......Government health care. If Palin, Michelle Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich say it's so then I guess it's a new incontrovertible fact of human existence.

I don't know Sarah, what would you say about the level of evil in a system that essentially bankrupts anyone who gets sick, leaves tens of millions uncovered, and leaves 20,000 people a year to die because they can't get health care they need? Oh right, keep it as is. What would you say about the level of evil in someone who would viciously concoct a lie about a "death panel" killing the retarded and elderly when confronted with a public insurance option that is overwhelmingly popular with the public? I think it would be something like "Elect me President in 2012." Screeching that Obama is about to murder your baby and then adding in that White House Jews are behind it, I have to say this is exactly what I'd thought you'd be "adding" to the "conversation" when you said you were quitting.

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