Quote of the day
posted at 10:00 pm on August 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
“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.”
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Go hard or go home.
artist on August 7, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Here we go.
You Betcha!
alohapundit on August 7, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Boom goes the dynamite.
Spirit of 1776 on August 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Yes! Sweet!
ladyingray on August 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Sorry, Iquitorod – you don’t matter any more. Go sell educate yourself and sell some books to the dregs.
simplesimon on August 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I love this woman- she calls it as it is. Palin 2012- if there is anything left of America . . .
theenforser on August 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I don’t give a rats ass what anyone says – what she’s saying is the cold hard truth, and she has more balls than any of those so-called ‘men’ in the GOP.
I love Private Citizen Palin!
seaplanes on August 7, 2009 at 10:03 PM
She’s right. Remember these are the same people who scolded her for having a Down’s baby instead of getting an abortion. I can see pregnant women who chose not to get a government funded abortion be told they will get no support for bringing what they will call a burden on the system into this world.
cadams on August 7, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Great article. Hits home to how this Death Care will harm seniors and disabled, as well as completely change this country for the worst.
Barracuda!!
Palin 2012!
jencab on August 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Stick in the eye…
d1carter on August 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Go sell educate yourself and sell some books to the dregs.
simplesimon on August 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Perhaps you should educate yourself.
txag92 on August 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM
…ummmm…
This is one reason why she’ll never be President.
beekiller on August 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Romney on ObamaCare: “Slow down”
Jindal on ObamaCare: “Go slow”
Sarah on OmabaCare: “HELL NO!”
Which one is representing your opinion on ObamaCare?
Norwegian on August 7, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Not bad.
I’m listening/reading, SP.
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Palin should be careful; she will soon find herself on Obama’s enemy list for spreading “disinformation”.
dmnari on August 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Get bent. Buttwagger.
Lanceman on August 7, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Hm, good point.
Spirit of 1776 on August 7, 2009 at 10:06 PM
She’s already on “thin ice.”
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Death Panel?
Childish rhetoric. No excuse. You don’t see Krauthammer calling anything a freaking death panel…this euthanasia foaming at the mouth scaremonger sh*t is ridiculous. Nazi plans, eugenics…reckless, irresponsible messages. Whatever bill gets passed, will barely change anything. It will be a giant deck shuffle, but with all the key players still in the game. That people could choose to fight THAT, with THIS…its childish. Its playground stuff, really.
**no democrats were defended in this comment
ernesto on August 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Nail meets head. Good job making that point crystal clear.
Support a RINO Free platform in 2010 and 2012.
Palin for Pres!
Chaz706 on August 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM
If she doesn’t matter, why was her statement (on FACEBOOK) picked up by all the nets within 30 minutes of being posted?
Answer that one, douchebag…. by the way, WTF is ‘sell educate’ supposed to mean? Go sell educate yourself.
BPD on August 7, 2009 at 10:08 PM
A caller on a talk show said, “Can fix two problems at once, less old people then less money for social security.”
I fell like I am living in a Superman movie with all these diabolical plots.
tessa on August 7, 2009 at 10:08 PM
You keep believin’ that.
Lanceman on August 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Oooohhh…..Sarahcuda!!!!
Dreadnought223 on August 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM
By the way… sorry Mrs. Palin…. I support you and everything… but your statement is a bit “fishy” and I have to turn you in to the Ministry of Opposition Suppression.
BPD on August 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Fishy!
Ted Torgerson on August 7, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Obama won’t like this. No sir. He might get mad.
Terrye on August 7, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Credit to AP for posting this.
aikidoka on August 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM
I love Palin, and will work tirelessly for her if she runs.
Firebird on August 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM
:) :) :) :) :)
Tell it like it is. Such a system is downright evil.
Amen! That’s a prayer vigil I’d go to.
El_Terrible on August 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Party of No? How about, Party of HELL NO!
BPD on August 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Death Panel? This is the first I heard about this. Anyone got a link?
Pelayo on August 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM
While he’s busy trying to get Huckabee elected /triplesarc
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Here we go again: Palin talking but knowing nothing, the quitter extraordinaire speaks yet again. Anyone send her name yet to the WH Tip Line so she might become better educated?
Next thing you know, she’ll mention the report on Drudge (which is surely agitprop by the desperate Jewish/Israeli/Republican/Zionist/Limbaugh press) that Cuba might experience a toilet paper gap this year.
Our Obama would never let that happen any more than it’s ‘happening’ in Cuba.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090807/lf_nm_life/us_cuba_crisis_toiletpaper_1
(/total sarc here)
Liam on August 7, 2009 at 10:13 PM
She matters so little that you decided to post in a thread about her.
Hmmmm.
BardMan on August 7, 2009 at 10:13 PM
You said it better than my ….ummmm….
*thumbs up*
beekiller on August 7, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Great stuff from Sarahcudda.
TBDave on August 7, 2009 at 10:13 PM
somebody’s getting snitched to Uhbama’s goon squad
Alden Pyle on August 7, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Been napping through the last month?
Bill will move US into a single payer system. Single payer system unsustainable with current level of care. Bill provides authority to mete out care. Elderly will suffer most.
Spirit of 1776 on August 7, 2009 at 10:13 PM
Not my favorite candidate, but as Lincoln said of Grant, we can’t spare this woman, she fights.
tlclark on August 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Has anyone on the site suggested spamming the narc email to the White House? If not, we totally should.
El_Terrible on August 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Absolutely true.
And yet, it will cost us a fortune. The bureaucrats will make a nice living tho, and congress will have their own health care aside of it all.
JetBoy on August 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Higher premiums, fiscal insolvency, higher taxes, less medical advances leading to the continuation of people’s suffering, all this in the name of expanding the influence peddling empire known as the Democratic party, so yes, evil.
rob verdi on August 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Hat’s off to all those who promised such events following the resignation. A much more clear signal we have now.
I for one thought it would be too good to be true. But I’m estatic it’s true.
The chains are off. Go Sarah, GO!
Hog Wild on August 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM
LOL
Expect a pile on…
ladyingray on August 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM
This, ladies and gentlemen, is an example of astroturfing.
El_Terrible on August 7, 2009 at 10:15 PM
maybe the president wouldn’t have appointed “czar’s who want to reduce the population, he might not be so vulnerable to these attacks.
rob verdi on August 7, 2009 at 10:15 PM
If you don’t think it’s evil, read Peter Fleckenstein tweets on the bill as he read it. He put them all into one blog post.
The HC Monstrosity-All 1,018 Pages
INC on August 7, 2009 at 10:16 PM
I love these guys/sarc I do want to say “you first”
CWforFreedom on August 7, 2009 at 10:16 PM
I’m glad to see her back, I knew she’d pop up soon.
It is awesome that she is a private citizen and can say whatever is on her mind.
She is calling a spade a spade.
She’s got real kahunas and I love her for that.
keebs on August 7, 2009 at 10:17 PM
I like the reference “Death Panel”.
GarandFan on August 7, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Sorry, Iquitorod – you don’t matter any more. Go sell educate yourself and sell some books to the dregs.
simplesimon on August 7, 2009 at 10:02 PM
I swear there must be some kind of alarm that goes off or a dog whistle that brings out the freaking trolls on every Sarah thread.
TXMomof3 on August 7, 2009 at 10:18 PM
LOL, they can’t file an ethics charge for this now.
El_Terrible on August 7, 2009 at 10:18 PM
How can you not love this woman?
It is AMAZING to me that WOMEN in America is Sarah Palin’s weak spot politically.
That just boggles my freakin’ mind!
Hillary Clinton beats Sarah Palin among American women? That is F’n insane!
David2.0 on August 7, 2009 at 10:18 PM
None of which is guarenteed. Bill will do what it says it does, and will have unintended consequences the likes of which could be all sorts of things. But what is being voted on is NOT single payer, and an american single payer is NOT british single payer, and ill repeat no one is voting on single payer.
if the british, canadian, french, etc, health systems were eugenicist plots to kill and control then it stands to reason there would be at the very least a lower life expectancy…there is not. At the most, the changes being debated are marginal deck shuffles that involve key health care providers. death panels its not.
ernesto on August 7, 2009 at 10:18 PM
you’ve been here…how long?
ernesto on August 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Sarah… Free ranger hunter… She aims… She shoots… She is absolutely dead on.
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Obastard is now officially a fascist wannabe dictator in my book. Not rhetoric. Just callin a thing what it is…
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RalphyBoy on August 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I have a feeling its an example of an education and not going beyond the pale with this stuff…and not wanting to sound like a buffoon. *shrug*
beekiller on August 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Seems accurate to me.
Ronnie on August 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
ernesto on August 7, 2009 at 10:07 PM
LOL
Expect a pile on…
ladyingray on August 7, 2009 at 10:14 PM
Usted tiene que adorar Ernesto para batir la olla pero él está equivocado. Esto cambiará todo.
txag92 on August 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
AP gives them a 5 second heads up ;)
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Check out the Huffington Post story on Obama in bed with the Pharmacies. Some of the libs are struggling with cognitive dissonance, they are feeling betrayed.
tessa on August 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Sarah . . . you go, girl! They’re reporting this ALL over the place. Finally, we’ve got ourselves a spokesperson. Thank you!!!!
califcon on August 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Since she’s such a polarizing person – and I mean that in a good way – when this gets out in the mainstream – - – people and pundits will dissect this from every conceivable angle. And again, that’s a good thing.
Flak jackets all around.
tru2tx on August 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Hmmmm…. lets play connect the dots…
Rahm Emanuels Brother is one of Obamas health care advisors. He has advocated “deciding” who gets health care resources based on how “productive” they are to society, so the very young, and very old, will get less health care resources than the “productive” adult.
Add in adding millions of more into health care, with no new doctors.
Add in a single payer system where a “Board” will decide who gets what resources.
Add in this is the ONLY way the Government can lower health care costs (by rationing care)….
Death Boards… the Gov will be deciding what health care the poor, and even middle class, will be getting.
Romeo13 on August 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM
“B-b-but we really thought he was going to stab his donors in the back!”
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
It’s a freaking death panel… In the long run, these asswipes are going to take your grandfather’s options away from him because his too old. Now that’s what we call controlling costs.
TimeTraveler on August 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Obama’s ‘death panel’
That’s the best discription of this horror story yet! Does anyone really think you can keep your private insurance long when on page 16 of this bill it says private insurance will be “grandfathered” in? Since when does something that isn’t being phased out need to be “grandfathered” in? Lying bastards!!
gina4 on August 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
+1000
Geochelone on August 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Because they have been betrayed, along with the rest of us. This is all good.
califcon on August 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Wait about three years or so and then look at that poll.
Lanceman on August 7, 2009 at 10:21 PM
It’s a freaking death panel… In the long run, these as**** are going to take your grandfather’s options away from him because his too old. Now that’s what we call controlling costs.
TimeTraveler on August 7, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Speaking of Huck, he sure seems to be staying out of the limelight on this. Might he be sympathetic to government run health care?
Dusty on August 7, 2009 at 10:22 PM
See I don’t buy that at all. Obama is on the record as saying that he intends to use health care to move to single payer. This bill removes private insurance by attrition and will unquestionable lead to single payer – and that means without variance a decrease in quality and availability of care.
You may not like the terminology, but it doesn’t have to be labeled eugenics to be true that a panel of people will have power over life and death, as far as it relates to medical care.
What you are saying now, is the spin they put on the bill AFTER it was being quoted from. It’s not universal health care, it’s health insurance reform! Um, no.
Spirit of 1776 on August 7, 2009 at 10:22 PM
A bit melodramatic, but read the HA thread on QALY, then ask yourself just how will these bureaucrats determine coverage and for who.
Fighton03 on August 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Barry wants to pull our feed tubes when we hit 65.
Geochelone on August 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM
RAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/s
VibrioCocci on August 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Hmmm… he might support government funding of the NEA and Thundercrack
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I suppose we’ll see, won’t we ;)
Honestly, if this bill bombed, i wouldnt lose any sleep over it. health care was never my issue. ill stir the pot and try and give it a fair shake but you know me. however, i cant stand rhetoric like that. its just, guttural and emotional and has little to no place in policy debates.
ernesto on August 7, 2009 at 10:24 PM
heh…. obviously someone who hasn’t worked for the goverment.
RULE #1 TO SAVING COSTS: Do without! Get by the best you can.
And I learned that as an active duty Marine in maintienence. Can’t spend a dime until the new budget is approved. Doesn’t matter how badly readiness is suffering, if there is no more money, THERE IS NO MORE MONEY, and therefore you are sh#t out of luck. So suck it up.
It’s one thing when it concerns an object like a tank, but when it’s your body, how long are you willing to wait?
Long enough for your fellow citizens to cough up the money? Pack a lunch buddy, you are going to need a meal waiting for it.
Hog Wild on August 7, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I guess this song will be outdated to “back when people cared about kids”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJnoBbueEc0
Jeff from WI on August 7, 2009 at 10:24 PM
No, YOU have to adore Ernesto, but yes, this WILL change everything. ;-)
I KNEW the four years of high school Spanish would come in handy SOME day!
VibrioCocci on August 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Fair enough, but I’ve seen you get a tad emotional on other *key* issues.
It’s in us. How do we get rid of it?
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM
AP gives them a 5 second heads up ;)
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM
They follow him on twitter…
ladyingray on August 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Typical lefty bullshit. People like you make me sick.
I grew up in Scandinavia and saw this happen to my own grandmother. She got cancer when she was 81. She was refused care by the state run health care authorities, and was instead given a spot at at local hospice with a not-so-subtle hint that “she could go there and die”. I will never forget that.
ObamaCare would do the exact thing in the US, and its a travesty.
Norwegian on August 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM
The video in the headlines below “DINGELL TOWNHALL” would be a nice companion piece to this Quote of the Day. An elderly man with his adult cerebral palsy son in a wheelchair makes Palin’s point in front of a Congressman’s face. Congressman goes on later in same clip to tell interviewer that audience was nothing but plants and stooges.
Marcus on August 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Palin’s statement is incredibly stupid. There is no way they are going to allow you to be standing right there in front of them when they deny treatment to you.
DaveS on August 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM
You’re definitely a simpleton. Have you ever left your mother’s bsement in the last 45 years?
bill30097 on August 7, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Did AnninCA not get the memo?
TXMomof3 on August 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
BINGO
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Um…..not around women much? Have you SEEN Sarah? OK, Todd’s gonna come and kick my azz now, lol.
Fighton03 on August 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Hot Date with some 17 year old boy…
Upstater85 on August 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Eugenics: Highly centralized population control run by psychopaths.
Luka on August 7, 2009 at 10:27 PM
What’s a basement?
Lanceman on August 7, 2009 at 10:28 PM
I like your spirit, brother!
Let’s hope so.
David2.0 on August 7, 2009 at 10:28 PM
I’m in my mid 50s. If they pulled the plug on me, so be it.
But they’ll pull the plug on kids. They’ll kill them before birth, then those that make it but have “problems” will be left to die.
God how I hate these animals.
Jeff from WI on August 7, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Ever see “Logan’s Run”?
Fighton03 on August 7, 2009 at 10:28 PM
VibrioCocci on August 7, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Ernesto es mi amigo. El es un tipo bueno, justo joven y no se preocupó por su asistencia sanitaria. … todavía.
txag92 on August 7, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Oh Aggie, you are much too kind. You know, I know, we all know what we really want this simple minded simon to do to itself…
redwhiteblue on August 7, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Why don’t you go read Sarah’s statement in full? It has the links.
promachus on August 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM
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