Posted on 09/06/2009 6:27:00 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Read more of the article. He poses the initial question to draw in the opposition, who happen to think Sarah Palin is crazy, and after citing instances where the government has done the very thing that Palin has warned us against. He then concludes that Palin is not crazy.
The word death is never used. But in some cases, that is the necessary consequence.
Congressman Billybob
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"Ben Franklin will be in D.C., speaking and dressed this way."
Which is well and good, but it’s not what I’m talking about.
When Palin made her death panels post, her justification was that the combination of mandatory end of life counseling plus the creation of a health choices commissioner who unilaterally decides who will get what benefits equals a death panel, as in some sort of body that will decide that people are not worth caring for and must be abandoned by the system.
So when the author bashes Palin by saying there’s nothing in the part about mandatory end of life care that establishes a death panel, and then goes on to say that governments make things up, he misses the freakin’ point, to put it charitably. They don’t have to make anything up, because it’s already in the damn bill.
Exactly right, the foundation for this was laid in the porkulus. But that’s not what’s being specifically referred to here. Read my post 21.
I’m sorry, post 24, not 21.
She’s saner than a lot of the people calling her crazy.
Catchy title, wasn't it? :-)
I agree with youe post !
and, to the person who asked if I read it all the way through, no, I didn’t but I did read enough.
Indirectly, he pointed out something that the medical community has tap danced around for years. The abandonment of the Hippocratic oath, or its debasement to an empty ritual, devoid of meaning.
Since the time of the fictional Dr. Frankenstein, medical ethics has been under attack. Today, a doctor will not be condemned for inhumanity and violating the cardinal rules of life, but be honored by his peers for breaching ethics in such an interesting way. Relativistic ethics on a par with journalistic ethics, meaning no ethics.
While the public are still shocked and horrified by the medical experiments conducted by the Nazis and Imperial Japanese war machine, or the Tuskegee experiment, the medical community is not. Unconcerned with life, and humanity, they hide behind science as justification for any barbarity.
For this reason, it is a reasonable question to ask if doctors are any longer able or willing to police their own ethics, or if a public agency should be able to intervene in their practices and tell them to discontinue a practice or experiment, because it has passed the boundaries the public is willing to tolerate.
Like the fox (that she is).
Sarah's playing checkers while 0be's losing big time at chess.
You’re painting with way too broad a brush.
Read the whole article. It clearly is saying that the lack of a direct link doesn't mean one is not or can not be implied.
They are defending her.
If she is crazy, so is Steve Marlsburg and NUMEROUS other conservative analysts who have stated the same thing.
The American Thinker needs a good laxative to clear his brains out.
It certainly is, and the title is a masterstroke! :)
For god sakes I am a Phlebotomist and I took the Hipocratic oath and I follow it to a tee every day... Now an abortion doctor in my opinion can’t be considered a doctor due to him breaking his Hipacratic oath.
The writer gets to his point by the first sentence of the third paragraph - Of course, as we have learned, the absence of specific language in the Constitution or a statute doesn't mean that something isn't there.
The remainder of the article is in strong support of Palin's stance that the suggestion of "death panels" is not ludicrous.
Like a fox... and just she is one. Brains, looks, and political acumen. That leaves the left out in the cold and screaming their heads off...heh.
You see no panel needed, just a faceless bean-counter deciding your fate.
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