Sunday, August 9, 2009

The Reaction To Sarah Palins Health Care Statement

I always thought of liberals as the crowd that lets feelings get in the way of facts. They were the crowd that would ban dodgeball because kids might be sad for 10 minutes. They were the crowd that gave every kid a trophy even if they sucked. Basically, they were for the wussification of America. Part of the reason I liked thinking myself a conservative was we say what needs to be said whether it's politically correct or not. If it's accurate, say it. I really only started reading the political blogs a little over a year ago. I've been a little surprised by what I've seen from some pundits/blogs on the right during that time. Sarah Palins facebook note on Friday really shines a light on this.

Lets take a look at the section that was "controversial."

The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. 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.

Seems pretty straight forward and accurate to me. Government run health care will lead to rationing of health care. A government bureaucracy will decide who gets the necessary medical treatment and who doesn't. Is anybody denying this will happen?

Here is how allahpundit, a blogger at one of the highest trafficed blogs on the right spun this on twitter:

Because I oppose Obama's plan, I'm supposed to believe he's out to euthanize the retarded?

Really, that's the interpretation you come away with from reading that. Not that the elderly and disabled will have rationed care (ya know, like she clearly writes) but that once the bill is passed they will just be euthanizing the retarded? That's embarrassing comprehension skills. I feel like I'm at Eastside High before Joe Clark took over, watching these pundits on the right fail the basic skills test. THAT MEANS THEY CAN HARDLY READ! (that's my best Joe Clark impersonation)



Listen, I was a 7 year phys ed major and I could easily comprehend her statement. This leads me to believe one of two things about those who couldn't understand it. Either they are intentionally taking her out of context or they are dumber than a 7 year phys ed major.

Allahpundit later went on to say this about her statement:

I don't give a shit about being taken seriously by the left. I care about being taken seriously by swing voters

So his plan for being taken seriously by swing voters is to put words in the mouth of Sarah Palin that she never said? Interesting strategy.

Even Mary Katherine Ham, who I do think does a better job than most of the Republican pundits, has gone soft on this issue. She wrote on twitter:

Yes, exactly. Fear is serious talk of rationing can & will be parodied, thereby weakening very strong argument. Disappointing.

Disappointing? With one facebook note Sarah Palin put the rationing of health care at the head of this debate. Of course the media and left (one in the same) is going to parody that by taking it out of context. Kind of like how Allahpundit did (again, interesting). You can do as Ham does and complain that it will be mocked or you can do as Gingrich does and point out how her statement is accurate. The fact is, rationing of health care will be a major talking point over the next week because of Palins statement. Ham should take the opportunity when asked to point out how it is true that a government panel will be making your life and death decisions, rather than worry about what the left says.

There are really only two ways you can disagree with Palins statement.

A) You don't believe a government bureaucracy will ration health care, in which case you're delusional. Or..

B) Your delicate personality doesn't like the fact that a government panel that will be making your life and death decisions has been accurately nicknamed the "death panel."

Something tells me that the people who are so hysterical about the "death panel," wont find the phrase so outrageous when their parent receives a letter in the mail telling them they'd be better off taking a pain killer, rather than the life prolonging pace maker their doctor recommended. But hey, that probably wont happen. It's not like anybody of significance in this debate has told us that will happen. Oh wait...



Republican pundits need to either step and use this opportunity Palin has given them to show how government bureaucracys will make your life and death decisions, or they need to go join the "every kid gets a trophy" crowd.

7 comments:

  1. I don't want her statement i know her bad reaction....

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  2. You hit the bullseye on this one.

    When it's a crap, it smells like a crap, looks like a crap, and sounds like a crap.

    That is Government Health Care.

    America has two biggest craps: Medicaid and Medicare.

    Those WHO WORSHIP GOVERNMENT SO MUCH WANT TO CREATE A MUCH BIGGER, WIDER, AND FASCIST CRAP ... I CALL IT THE LARGEST CRAP IN THE WORLD ...

    OBAMA/DEM HEALTH CARE BILL (HR 3200) - the policy

    DEM'S APPOINTED BUREAUCRATS - the implementers (who will advise Obama on the list of bureaucrats? Emmanuel Brothers? SHOCKINGLY HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!)

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  3. I said bad things when Palin quit.

    quitter!

    But if the purpose of that quitting is to tell "things" as they are....

    I prefer quitters than silvering politicians glued in their elected positions.

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  4. Hey you all. This is Wasilla Willie. Seems to me that the insurance companies do a really good job of making sure they get paid, and that the rest of us get pretty lousy health care. We spend more money per capita than the rest of the world and we are at #37. Canada does better than we do.

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  5. Good article. Sometimes looking at things just sensibly exposes other agenda's (or stupidity).

    Enjoyed the read, well written, thanks.

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  6. Willie J, statistics lie, democrats lie, put the two together and we have a whopper of a lie - Obamacare!

    Health rationing, government managing 20% of the economy, undersupply of doctors, waiting lists, ineffecient govt run services AND then politicians forever after "tweaking" the system for their own benefit - both Democrats and Republicans.

    I understand your programmed to think and say these things, but really, I suggest you try to do better, otherwise you'll lose even the peanuts you are paid astroturfing.

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  7. AHEFT shows African American health care has long been rationed by breeding us to limit our lives, so why should we pay for all those boomer pensions we will never benefit from? Afater all, it was the boomer pensions which caused the market to crash.

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