BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S BRIDGE TOO FAR
RINO
Oh yea, I’m going to believe the “research” of an ABC news reader.
(Paglia weighs in)
I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah Palin hit on in her shocking image of a ‘death panel’ under Obamacare that would make irrevocable decisions about the disabled and elderly. When I first saw that phrase, headlined on the Drudge Report, I burst out laughing. It seemed so over the top! But on reflection, I realized that Palin’s shrewdly timed metaphor spoke directly to the electorate’s unease with the prospect of shadowy, unelected government figures controlling our lives. A death panel not only has the power of life and death but is itself a symptom of a Kafkaesque brave new world where authority has become remote, arbitrary and spectral. And as in the Spanish Inquisition, dissidence is heresy, persecuted and punished.”
(Paglia weighs in)
I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah Palin hit on in her shocking image of a ‘death panel’ under Obamacare that would make irrevocable decisions about the disabled and elderly. When I first saw that phrase, headlined on the Drudge Report, I burst out laughing. It seemed so over the top! But on reflection, I realized that Palin’s shrewdly timed metaphor spoke directly to the electorate’s unease with the prospect of shadowy, unelected government figures controlling our lives. A death panel not only has the power of life and death but is itself a symptom of a Kafkaesque brave new world where authority has become remote, arbitrary and spectral. And as in the Spanish Inquisition, dissidence is heresy, persecuted and punished.”
Obama himself told a woman there would be criteria set and her elderly mother might be denied surgery and given a pain pill instead. He also said “you” currently receive care that “isn’t helping you”.
These comments can only mean a national panel rationing care and allowing some people to die.
here’s a little “breakthrough” news that is timely and will surely make possible and lead to cost vs benefit health care rationing well before the end-of-life issue:
As high as my regard is for the medical profession, the fact remains that we are talking about legal documents. I have no idea whether the medical profession wants to take on this role, nor what the ramifications might be of it doing so. I can imagine that the average doctor might might lack the necessary legal background to properly answer some questions that could come up in a counseling session.
Where are doctors on all this? Do they want this job?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aGrKbfWkzTqc
Obama questioned the cost of Madelyn Dunham’s hip replacement, and the cost of care for the terminally ill...
We live 16 miles from Portsmouth, NH and I can tell you for a fact that the "Town Hall " event in Portsmouth, NH was a totally scripted phony "by invitation only ticketed event.” Obamessiah and his minions determined WHO got the tickets and ONLY THOSE WITH TICKETS GOT IN!
The hall was packed with democrat operatives and real American public was not permitted to enter. The facts are it was a by invitation only The little girl who questioned Obama at his "Health Care Forum" was a Democratic plant! (PROOF enclosed) =
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=911911
Please research this and come to your OWN CONCLUSIONS.
We have lived in Southern NH for 30 years and I have one question:
"What is a democratic operative and early Obama supporter from MASSACHUSETTS doing in a NEW HAMPSHIRE town hall meeting, USING HER DAUGHTER AS A TOOL TO READ A CANNED QUESTION FROM A SCRIPT if this isn’t anything more than a PHONY, STAGED, POTEMKIN, SHAM-WOW Obamessiah deathcare infomercial with Obama preaching to a canned audience that has been HAND PICKED and PROGRAMMED to applaud and cry "yes we can" on cue when their master Obamessiah speaks?"
They must think we are fools who do not know how to do BASIC research using the internet.
I read that when Sarah termed these things “death panels,” Isakson called that “crazy.” I think Isakson has stepped in his own doo doo, and BO, who knows doo doo when he sees it, was quick to - oh, well, the metaphor runs out at this point.
Johnny needs to be replaced PDQ!
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Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:32:33 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Isakson’s response to Obama
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Isakson Denounces White House Comments Connecting Him
To Terribly Flawed House Health Care Bill
‘This Is What Happens When the President and Members of Congress Don’t Read the Bills’
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today denounced comments made by President Obama and his spokesman regarding Isakson’s alleged connection to language contained in the House health care bill on “end-of-life counseling.”
Isakson vehemently opposes the House and Senate health care bills and he played no role in drafting language added to the House bill by House Democrats calling for the government to incentivize doctors by offering them money to conduct “end-of-life counseling” with Medicare patients every five years. Isakson also strongly opposed the House bill language calling for doctors to follow a government-mandated list of topics to discuss with patients during the counseling sessions.
By contrast, Isakson took a very different approach in July during the Senate HELP Committee hearings on the Senate version of the health care bill. Isakson’s amendment to the Senate bill says that anyone who participates in the long-term care benefit provided in the bill – if they so choose – may use that benefit to obtain assistance in formulating their own living will and durable power of attorney.
Isakson’s amendment, which was accepted unanimously by all Republicans and Democrats on the Senate HELP Committee, empowers the individual to make their own choices on these critical issues, rather than the government incentivizing doctors to conduct counseling on government-mandated topics. Isakson ultimately voted against the Senate health care bill.
“This is what happens when the President and members of Congress don’t read the bills. The White House and others are merely attempting to deflect attention from the intense negativity caused by their unpopular policies. I never consulted with the White House in this process and had no role whatsoever in the House Democrats’ bill. I categorically oppose the House bill and find it incredulous that the White House and others would use my amendment as a scapegoat for their misguided policies,” Isakson said. “My Senate amendment simply puts health care choices back in the hands of the individual and allows them to consider if they so choose a living will or durable power of attorney. The House provision is merely another ill-advised attempt at more government mandates, more government intrusion, and more government involvement in what should be an individual choice.”