We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's a remarkable political talent. But there are no "death panels" in the Democratic health care bills, and to say that there are is to debase the debate.
Um Charles, you're a day late and a dollar short on this. Sarah Palin left the room on this provision over a week ago. Granted she left with something so many Beltway Republicans have never tasted, victory. Someone should let Charles know that this provision that he is so concerned about has already been stripped from the bill. To paraphrase Col. Jessup, he should "probably just thank Sarah Palin and be on his way. Either way, why does Krauthammer give a damn about a provision that is no longer in the bill!" Is it only political columnists that write about things that are already decided as if they hadn't come to a conclusion yet? Are there any sports articles in todays paper about last years Super Bowl saying that Roethlisberger should've sat out the game even though his team won and he was the MVP? The games over Charles. We actually won this battle.
The other problem with Krauthammers column is that it follows the same old tired elite Republican script. Let me criticize someone on the right so I can be taken more serious. He'll show how reasoned and well mannered he is. Nevermind that his column says it's ridiculuous to call that provision a death panel, yet the rest of his article is about how that provision could pressure people into choosing death over life. This script gets boring after awhile.
Finally lets once again look at Palins actual statement on death panels in context.
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.
Let me break this down real slow for everybody. The death panel being in quotes signifies it's a nickname. The rest of the sentence spells out what that nickname is for. A governement bureaucracy that will ration health care. But who would ever suggest that a panel like this would even be set up. Palin must be making things up. Oh wait...
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that's part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance. It's not determinative, but I think has to be able to give you some guidance. And that's part of what I suspect you'll see emerging out of the various health care conversations that are taking place on the Hill right now.
Honestly this is too easy. I'm starting to get bored destroying Beltway Republicans.
i am sending this to chuckie. I too used to enjoy him on Fox but now....he disgusts me and he should apologize for his lack of thinking. I am really tired of his picking at Sarah.
ReplyDeleteI'm disappointed in Krauthammer . . . he ought to be better than this, and he would if he could just see Gov. Palin clearly.
ReplyDeleteI would note, though, that when you say, "this provision that he is so concerned about has already been stripped from the bill" -- we need to be careful about declaring victory on this, because it's not actually true. The Senate Finance Committee members decided to remove that provision from their version of the bill; it's still in HR 3200, and still in the versions reported out by other Senate committees. This fight isn't over yet.
When Kraut. says "I've got nothing against her" he's lying. People always issue a disclaimer when they are about to something they really mean.
ReplyDeleteI've never liked him even though he is sometimes conservative. He's just Washington sleaze with his own personal agenda. Charles, for the good of America, please leave the room.
ReplyDeleteKrauthammer does not like Sarah. She is outside and not an elite. The opposite of CK.
ReplyDeleteHe is merely confirming again how out-of-touch he is.
I like Chuck, but he is elitist to the core and has no idea that the sleeping giant has awakened.
He basically just told the American people to 'leave the room'.
ReplyDeleteDipshit.
Obama asked Krauthammer to do a late damage control on "death panel" with the promise of getting invited in the WH parties.
ReplyDeleteSo there!
Or:
ReplyDeleteKrauthammer is really afraid of death panel.
He knows that the death panel will be coming to his door SOON.