Quote of the day
posted at 10:35 pm on September 8, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Now look at one way Mr. Obama wants to eliminate inefficiency and waste: He’s asked Congress to create an Independent Medicare Advisory Council—an unelected, largely unaccountable group of experts charged with containing Medicare costs. In an interview with the New York Times in April, the president suggested that such a group, working outside of ‘normal political channels,’ should guide decisions regarding that ‘huge driver of cost … the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives…”
Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats’ proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by—dare I say it—death panels? Establishment voices dismissed that phrase, but it rang true for many Americans. Working through ‘normal political channels,’ they made themselves heard, and as a result Congress will likely reject a wrong-headed proposal to authorize end-of-life counseling in this cost-cutting context. But the fact remains that the Democrats’ proposals would still empower unelected bureaucrats to make decisions affecting life or death health-care matters. Such government overreaching is what we’ve come to expect from this administration…
Instead of poll-driven ‘solutions,’ let’s talk about real health-care reform: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven. As the Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon and others have argued, such policies include giving all individuals the same tax benefits received by those who get coverage through their employers; providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage; reforming tort laws to potentially save billions each year in wasteful spending; and changing costly state regulations to allow people to buy insurance across state lines. Rather than another top-down government plan, let’s give Americans control over their own health care.”
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See how Speedwagon hasn’t even read the article and comes here to bash? What an a**wipe.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 1:37 AM
Heart are great entertainers, but remember last year? They are meannnnn!
NathanG on September 9, 2009 at 1:37 AM
Yeah, well, next time any of them open their fat mouths to bash Palin, spewing the same old tired tripe, I’m gonna rub their faces in this.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 1:38 AM
Unlike Obama, she wanted to wait until she had actually done something worth reading about.
A book full of “wah wah wah, whitey be keeping me down” ghostwritten by a white communist/terrorist isn’t exactly a barn-burner.
TMK on September 9, 2009 at 1:38 AM
My favorite liberal bashing Zappa tune:
“Who you jivin’ with that cosmic debris?”
Cosmic Debris
Saltysam on September 9, 2009 at 1:39 AM
I could have guessed that. We will see what they do. Play nice with us or Die.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 1:40 AM
Trolls are busying massaging Van Jones’s ego and Obama’s resume…
profitsbeard on September 9, 2009 at 1:41 AM
…or vicey versey…
profitsbeard on September 9, 2009 at 1:42 AM
I walked past a Bar where U2 was playing. I usually don’t walk past Bars, I go in.
The next year they came to town in a hockey arena, the year after that it was a 50,000 seat football stadium. You know the rest.
I saw it coming. This was before live aid.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 1:43 AM
Profitsbeard The Mighty says more with less.
Saltysam on September 9, 2009 at 1:44 AM
I rest my case.
Saltysam on September 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Oh yeah! I remember seeing them on MTV singing “Gloria” – that was before War was released. I knew they were the next big band. Saw them in concert during the Joshua Tree tour.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM
The question you should really be asking is, “Why is this unemployed woman kicking the Won’s butt and wrecking his signature domestic agenda item armed only with her laptop?”
powerpro on September 9, 2009 at 1:47 AM
out of the mouth of babes:
my 3 year old says obama needs a timeout and needs to stand in the corner and Sarah is the one to put him there. lol
ConservativePartyNow on September 9, 2009 at 1:50 AM
How about this song. It plays in my head all day.
I like the way early stuff, like Gloria, but Joshua Tree for me is solid Gold. I am a U2 freak because they sing religion.
Bono gets flackey but they got that good Irish magic and mysticism in them. The band is spiritual [not trashy] and not afraid to admit it.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 1:53 AM
I hope a WSJ op-ed is sufficiently weighty as to satisfy the anti-Facebook snobs. ;o)
IloveherIloveherIloveherIloveher!!!!!! Like it or not, you are looking at our 45th POTUS — it shall be so.
NoLeftTurn on September 9, 2009 at 1:53 AM
Ssssshhhh! They are hiding.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 1:56 AM
John Stossel: “There will never be enough tax money to pay for everything that everyone wants. If we expect the state to pay for care, a bureaucracy must tell people, at some age, “No, you can’t have that.” You might call it a death panel.“
JohnJ on September 9, 2009 at 1:56 AM
Comment banned by Charles Johnson
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 1:58 AM
Oh wow, that sure brought back memories! I was in college at the time and recorded this. I love this version of Bad.
Yeah, Bono seems to be a bit of a poseur to me now, but maybe because I’ve grown more cynical. They sure appealed to me back then. And I still love their music to this day.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 1:58 AM
They’re hiding because they don’t want to have to read her article and admit it’s gold.
That tells me they care less about this country than they do their own (prejudicial) opinions.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 2:00 AM
“Those were the days my friend”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVhB0jGP7I&feature=related
“Let’s Roll”
On Watch on September 9, 2009 at 2:04 AM
You can’t do this sh*t in a studio. This was historic. Everybody forgot all the other bands at LiveAid. It was U2 all the way to the bank.
They were supposed to play New Years Day but Bono dicked around in the audience too long and they ran out of time. The band was pissed off at him. But turns out that his performance is all any body actually remembered in the whole Live Aid thing. They dominated.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 2:05 AM
And Charles Krauthammer had the nerve to ask Palin to leave the room. Sheesh!
I find this OP-ED concise and powerful. The depth and clarity in this message does ring true with the American people. Especially me, cause my opinion matters the most.
I sense the beginning of a tidal wave. 2010, the water begins to leave the shore line like democrats losing their seats in the House and Senate.
And in 2012, the first wave of real change comes in to destroy this socialist banana republic Obama has set up.
I’m feeling the glass half full.
Kini on September 9, 2009 at 2:05 AM
Heh, do you remember Red Rock? That performance was stellar! I remember recording it (VHS) and wore out the tape!
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 2:06 AM
Unemployed? She’s got a million dollar advance for a book, is being paid six figures for speeches and has 1000 standing invitations to speak in addition to campaign and canvass for candidates.
Unemployed? Gimme a f*n break.
promachus on September 9, 2009 at 2:08 AM
You really do need to learn how to be a better, more engaging troll.
She’s just wrapping up her book that she got millions for in advance, and will be an instant best seller.
She’s on her way to Hong Kong next week to do a six figure $$$ speech. That leaves her 1099 left to do! (and that’s only what she has piled up NOW!) Oh, and most are six figure offers! That’s potentially $100 MILLION dollars!
Oh, and she still has time to raise BIG MONEY for the Wounded Warrior Ride 2 Recovery Program!
http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.blogspot.com/2009/09/once-in-lifetime-dinner-with-sarah.html
She’s kicking the living hell out of Obama for sport!
She’s like someone who has a cat and some string!
gary4205 on September 9, 2009 at 2:09 AM
OMG. I bought the tape. It was the single largest selling Rock Tape in History at the time. It might still be. That was spontaneous magic. How do you plan a rain storm like that.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 2:09 AM
Trolls have been firing blanks all night. Cuda is bullet proof anyway.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 2:11 AM
U2s roadies are serious MoFos. Total pros. Money machine.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM
U2. Best live show ever?
(Not including Sarah Palin rallies because she technically doesn’t sing.)
Mr. Wednesday Night on September 9, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Naturally she didn’t actually write it tho. Because she’s a simpleton, you see. So say the O-bots posting in the comments at the WSJ. You could set your watch by these people.
I would submit the following: If the death panels are indeed not death panels, but rather harmless little chats about end-of-life choices, why aren’t all of us going to be subject to it? Assuming, of course, we’re all on the public option (which I believe is ultimately inevitable if any version of this beast passes). If it’s all just for informational purposes, couldn’t we all benefit? I’m young(ish) and healthy, but I could get run down by a Mack truck tomorrow. Shouldn’t my family know my wishes if I am deemed terminal? The mere fact that this provision specifically refers to Medicare recipients whose medical status has “changed” is really all the proof anyone needs if you ask me. They are being singled out because the elderly and infirm are considered expendable. Old people are a cost center. Hastening their deaths saves money, period. That’s what this is really about. And only an intellectually dishonest person can deny where we would end up going from there.
NoLeftTurn on September 9, 2009 at 2:18 AM
Exactly. I can’t believe some purported conservatives can’t see that. It’s like a part of their reasoning brain switches off.
It’s so bloody obvious.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 2:20 AM
Maybe. Many of the concerts I’ve been to are blurs now… lol. I do remember Ted Nugent. Yowza.
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 2:21 AM
I know! It was an act of God!
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 2:22 AM
Good night me hearties.
Geochelone on September 9, 2009 at 2:38 AM
But she is not unemployed my dear.
She is employed in the hearts of Americans yearning to protect the Constitution and the United States from racists communists like Van Jones, fascist like Mark Lloyd that would suppress free speech, mad scientists, nutty professors and Doctors that believe the Hippocratic Oath (to protect life) is taken too seriously.
You might not think being in the hearts and minds is any worthwhile collateral, any tangible net worth that could be banked on, but it is.
It has come to past that anyone that speaks with Common Sense should be ridiculed and demonized as kook. The truth has a bad habit of showing up when it’s least expected, making perceived transparency, a little more opaque.
And it’s not a lecture Sarah Palin is giving, it’s called the truth. The Constitution is under attack by radicals that would transform our country into a nation into something like…. Canada or France…., or maybe even Delaware.
Kini on September 9, 2009 at 2:49 AM
Nighty night!
atheling on September 9, 2009 at 2:53 AM
Coupla points:
1. Sarah Palin has a photographic memory. How does that affect grades? She’s got to work real hard for an F. I read somewhere, a long while ago, she’s pretty much got a 4.0 GPA. She’s always taken academics seriously.
2. Sarah Palin did not college hop cuz she was looking for an easy program. It was all about money. No money to keep on going to school? Stop. Work for a while. Save. Go back to school. It’s got nothing to do with brains—except that of the moron Obamites who think a Univ. of Idaho grad is an idiot. How come the U. of Idaho has never defended her or itself? Ah, the intelligentsia.
3. Lots of early Christian scholars believed that God sent Aristotle to pave the way for Christianity. Aristotle provided the language to explain Christian doctrine. So, it’s not so much Graeco-Roman thought, but Aristotelian thought that helped the early Christian Church express its complex theological ideas. Take a listen to lecturers from The Teaching Company; check out courses such as Charles Alan Kors’s The Birth of the Modern Mind, Louis Markos’s From Plato to Post-Modernism, and Michael Sugrue’s Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition (it gets into Aristotelian Christianity).
SilentWatcher on September 9, 2009 at 3:10 AM
Only an idiot wouldn’t recognize a freelancer. As for your remarks about her intellect–I’d wager my week’s paycheck she could hold her own against Mr.um, ahh, Obama. She destroyed Bidden with a wink and red shoes. (Course it doesn’t take much to destroy Bidden).
one thing’s for sure–you won’t catch Sarah saying “we-weed”. Hmm, was that word in either of his books?
lovingmyUSA on September 9, 2009 at 3:21 AM
Hey dumbsh!t, you realise Obama hadn’t done anything when he wrote his first memoir?
Usually normal historical greats wait till they have accomplished something before writing one or even two books about their lives.
Only retard megalomaniacs write about how great they are before they have ever achieved greatness.
Seriously you are about as dumb as they come.
Take the Bacock Oballsma out of your mouth for a minute before you suffocate.
BillaryMcBush on September 9, 2009 at 3:31 AM
That’s how i put myself through a very expensive college. My family was of little help, parent’s divorced, little money. Sarah didn’t have a wealthy Muslim benefactor like barry–nor did she have the right color of skin to get a free ride…nor was she of spanish descent, like our newest Supreme Court Justice.
Sarah made it on her own–and her writting says so–more than barry’s…
lovingmyUSA on September 9, 2009 at 3:33 AM
That’s part of Sarah’s charm. She embodies the traditional American experience in many ways. Instead of that being a cause for celebration, it’s a reason for disdain. How elitist of Democrats!
Who paid for Barry H. O. S. to go to school again? We still don’t know how he got from Occidental to SIPA—I was at Teachers’ College in those days and can’t help thinking that Barry puts me in mind of a Kenyan-born kid named James who lived at/visited the International House, NYC, sometime in 1982-1983. White mother; Kenyan father. Smoked like a chimney. I think James was either at CC or at SIPA.
SilentWatcher on September 9, 2009 at 3:46 AM
Please Get your Facts Straight!
Obama not only had a wealthy arab benefactor who funded his harvard degree for him, Obama also either told the truth or lied claiming he was a citizen of indonesia to get a grant to go to occidental college where he started his career in lieing and stealing…so there are many ways to fund a college education…not just stopping to work.
Also please bear in mind that since obama claims he was born as a result of selma alabama march bringing his mom and dad together and that spirit of hope got them funky and dats how little barack wuz born…nevermind that the march happened 3 years after his actual birth and his momma and daddy were already divorced…the natural laws of the space time continuum do not apply to him.
BillaryMcBush on September 9, 2009 at 4:41 AM
Sarah Louise Palin
All American
Barack Hussein Obama
Anti American.
Barry Soetoro
Easy Listening Indonesian
BillaryMcBush on September 9, 2009 at 4:44 AM
Meanwhile, Drudge has an article up about how a hospital in Britain refused to even try to save a premature baby born just under 22 weeks, because it went against their guidelines. The baby lived for two hours and the hospital refused to do anything.
They note:
Survival rates only get better by people performing the procedures over and over. This is an example where the UK system has stagnated itself, to be saved only by places where younger premature babies are saved, thereby accumulating the knowledge to make survival more likely. If the US goes to this sort of system, even aside from losing advances due to the loss of profit in the system, we will also stagnate due to certain procedures not even being tried. This is another part of the trickle down effect in medicine, which cannot be underestimated.
I try and drive this point home, because it is so important, the biggest problem with socialists and socialist ideas is that they are staticists. They freeze the world in a state and then work very much against any changes or advances. This stagnation is the nature of socialism, as it is a theory of a static, unchanging world.
progressoverpeace on September 9, 2009 at 4:54 AM
Excellent point, pop, and one that is rarely made. While I disagree that it is the biggest problem with socialists, it is huge. Thank God, it flies in the face of basic human nature, which is not subject to politics.
doctormom on September 9, 2009 at 5:18 AM
Sarah makes more sense
Falling drunk off a barstool
Than ‘Bam stone sober.
Haiku Guy on September 9, 2009 at 5:27 AM
why is thi ack of sh*t polluting our website with its nonsense?
bill30097 on September 9, 2009 at 5:40 AM
Very true, doctormom. I got a little carried away from the story.
progressoverpeace on September 9, 2009 at 5:47 AM
Why can any elected Republicans make any of the statements that Sarah is making?
cmptrnerd on September 8, 2009 at 10:40 PM
because they do not believe in free markets, personal freedom etc they enjoy governmental power as much as the dems they just think they can do it better.
unseen on September 9, 2009 at 5:58 AM
I take solace in knowing there have always been and there will always be both ants and grasshoppers a la Aesop. Despite socialism’s rewarding the lazy, greedy grasshoppers, the ants keep moving forward. We can’t help ourselves.
doctormom on September 9, 2009 at 6:01 AM
Why is this unemployed woman still lecturing us all?
crr6 on September 8, 2009 at 11:12 PM
that’s ALL you got? We need a better class of troll
unseen on September 9, 2009 at 6:13 AM
You must be embarrassed as that unemployed woman is earning more money in one speech than you make in a year. You truly are an idiot and the classic troll.
CWforFreedom on September 9, 2009 at 6:19 AM
Good for you, Sarah. Channeling Thomas Paine and Glenn Beck there, I see.
Common sense also tells us that a president who has tried 100+ times to sell this thing, and can’t, will also fail in trying to do it again.
Polls are falling Barry. The folks aren’t buying your shtick. You’re trying to stick all of us with the bill for shameka tallywhackers pap exam and hubert’s water pills. No thanks. Sell a few more books then open your own charity clinic mr. tightwad. We give our own money to charity and we’re just cuttin you out as the middleman.
Go away you weak president. You’re a joke.
ted c on September 9, 2009 at 6:20 AM
there’s an oxymoron.
Class amongst trolls is like honor amongst thieves.
ted c on September 9, 2009 at 6:21 AM
First troll…and lame at best.
jerrytbg on September 9, 2009 at 6:43 AM
Sarah Palin Spanks Obama On The Eve Of His Big Dog And Pony Show With Congress
http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/sarah-palin-spanks-obama-on-the-eve-of-his-big-dog-and-pony-show-with-congress/
gary4205 on September 9, 2009 at 6:57 AM
Wow, you must be simply orgasmic.
Daggett on September 9, 2009 at 6:59 AM
Nauseatingly pathetic.
Jeff from WI on September 9, 2009 at 7:10 AM
To what avail? When have Republicans actually reduced government?
True_King on September 9, 2009 at 7:22 AM
Post of the day!
gary4205 on September 9, 2009 at 7:35 AM
so of course the answer is to vote democrat because after all throw another roll of bills on the fire…
I am thinking reduction of government expenditures is gonna happen the easy way or the hard way in the next ten years….
Ogabe Lightworker is the last emperor.
sven10077 on September 9, 2009 at 7:39 AM
michael cannon came and debated the head of cardiology at the university last year
did a great job
blatantblue on September 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM
I’ll preface this by saying that I think Robert Gibbs is an absolute idiot.
He just finished a segment in which he tried to describe Obama’s plan. He said that a public option will not affect those who are currently covered by employer-provided insurance.
He then went on to address individuals and small businesses who buy insurance on the open market. He recounted an anecdote about a friend who tried to buy individual insurance in Alabama. Apparently, one insurance company has 81% of the market in Alabama. Therefore, Gibbs said, the public option is needed to provide his friend with a competitive alternative.
WTF? Sadly, none of the twits on Morning Joe didn’t ask the question, “Hey, Robert, why is it that one company has 81% of the Alabama market? And once you get that answer, why don’t you seek legislative solutions that break down barriers to competition rather than creating a huge entitlement program?”
I’m flabbergasted by the stupidity of these people.
BuckeyeSam on September 9, 2009 at 7:44 AM
Stake, meet heart!
yoda on September 9, 2009 at 7:47 AM
NY state had a similar panel charged with closing hospitals in the name of cutting costs. Every closing was opposed by the local populace but there was no political will to stop it and local reps could shrug and say “It is out of my hands”. Case in point: A small hospital in Fulton NY closed adding 20 minutes to emergency ambulance runs. The closest hospital was in Oswego, NY , home to 3 nuclear power plants. Jobs lost, risks enhanced, beds eliminate, emergency capacity diminished.
Grunch42 on September 9, 2009 at 7:47 AM
To all the trolls out there. I have a request and dedication for you all…..”Don’t fear the ‘cuda”…….(set to Blue Oyster Cult Don’t Fear the Reaper)……
I have a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell!!!
Keep on banging that cowbell, Sarah baby!
Rndguy on September 9, 2009 at 7:50 AM
Not so much stupidity as arrogance–arrogance and hubris. These people need to read some Greek tragedies, especially Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
Matt Helm on September 9, 2009 at 7:55 AM
yeah, I have no problem with at least seeing a GPA and
Prove it. I think there is a case that because your dear leader is black, he didn’t have to EARN his grades.. he just got them because.
Noelie on September 9, 2009 at 7:56 AM
Whenever I hear Sarah talk, my leg starts to quiver. Er, ah I think it was my leg. Oh yeah, yeah, it was my leg.
Jeff from WI on September 9, 2009 at 7:57 AM
1) he applied for aid as a foreign student
2) his course selection will show a narrative involving a lot of Marx and racial $hit$tirring classes
Ogabe doesn’t want you to know what he did in school but he wants oversight of what your kids do in school.
sven10077 on September 9, 2009 at 8:03 AM
As opposed to what we have currently…where unelected bureaucrats weigh your wallet against the treatment you need or want effecting life or death health care matters. These bureaucrats work for private insurance companies, but their role and net product (rationing) are exactly what Ms. Palin and company are lamenting.
Why should I prefer an unelected health insurance bureaucrat having a say in how i take advantage of the american medical system over an unelected government bureaucrat?
ernesto on September 9, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Go Sarah!
Congratulations, Texas Republican Rep. John Carter’s special C-SPAN House meeting calling for Charles Rangle to step aside WHILE he CONTINUES to be under investigation AGAIN for tax evasion compounded by his special treatment by the IRS forgiving him of fines and penalties for Rangle having paid only HALF his due taxes at times, with every tax payment made since 2002 being false representations of his incomes, “forgetting” multiple properties, bonds and trusts worth $600,000 AS INDIVIDUAL ITEMS.
Rangle pushed House Democrat Bill HR3200 through his committee, 1) to deny the IRS the ability to “forgive” penalties for tax forms containing what the IRS considers an obviously unintentional error in calculation; 2) to DOUBLE the fines (40% fines in addition to the difference assessed by the IRS) against regular citizens who make a minor error as determined by the IRS in tax returns, even though the IRS determines the error was most likely unintentional on the part of the tax payer.
Meanwhile, what is Obama doing to shore up the dollar that his party is so mean spirited in usurping from tax payers?
Given the UN demand to demean the dollar, the only righteous American response would be to abort the UN from our fiscal and political responsibility to fund.
Given Obama as POTUS, not so.
BRIBE Obama to throw his bankrupted dollar in their incinerator. Give him a prestigious position that WHILE POTUS he doesn’t have time to simultaneously do justice to RESPONSIBILITIES. What else would you expect from this citizen of the world holding dual or tri-national citizenship? Allegiance to the USA is too much to expect from this man.
“Obama to seal US-UN relationship,” by Harvey Morris at the United Nations, Financial Times, 9/8/09
Tony Soprano on September 9, 2009 at 8:10 AM
because Ernie if you don’t like your HMO’s answer you can sue or shop for a new insurer but if Uncle Ogabe’s goon squad says you can’t get a procedure if previous donk work on “UHC” is any indication you can walk to Mexico and hope you don’t get caught paying 100% out of pocket.
sven10077 on September 9, 2009 at 8:12 AM
promachus on September 9, 2009 at 2:08 AM
You forgot school-age children at home. “MOM”: 24/7/365 profession.
oldleprechaun on September 9, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Wake up people . . . this guy is replacing our entire system of government with his “czars” and other unelected and uncontrolled goons, panels and boards. be complacent and compliant at your own peril.
rplat on September 9, 2009 at 8:35 AM
It seems that someone with even a small amount of intellect would have figured I never said that. And I didn’t. Someone in that thread copy and pasted the date and time of my comment and entered those words. The original thread is here and my original post was here. Cheers to you for falling for that moron’s joke days later.
crr6 on September 9, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Some more “moronic, knee-jerk reaction.”
I mean, come on, who even talks about taking control away from the government and giving it to the people.
Dang, I like this womean.
davidk on September 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Making his speech writers squirm…. I bet their coffee and donuts didn’t go down well this am.
Her timing is exquisite. A thing of beauty. Drilled a 3 pointer with 1 second on the clock and O has to respond with details, not platitudes or lose again.
journeyintothewhirlwind on September 9, 2009 at 8:58 AM
Because there won’t be an opening in her next job until 2012.
tsj017 on September 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Dear Ms. Palin,
I don’t idolize you, I idolize what you stand for. Neither those who are with you nor those who are against you can ignore your voice or deny your leadership skills.
WordsMatter on September 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM
She’s kicking the living hell out of Obama for sport!
She’s like someone who has a cat and some string!
gary4205 on September 9, 2009
I’m going to wait for the New York Times review before I buy her book…
Bwaaahaahaaa…..(sigh).
SKYFOX on September 9, 2009 at 9:21 AM
Anyone who reads this article and still supports socialized medicine (and I include Obamacare in that description) has no heart whatsoever.
If I knew anyone who still supports it, I would forward this article to them…I suggest y’all do the same.
Chewy the Lab on September 9, 2009 at 9:28 AM
Sarah understands what we seniors do, because we have also read that section of the bill that contains the Death Panel wording. This is why everyone over 60 is scared to death. We feel that the government is out to kill us off just to save a dime. It’s not a good feeling and we resent them for doing this to us.
Kissmygrits on September 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM
She built up her tolerance during the election. She can pretty much withstand an atom bomb now.
4shoes on September 9, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Pre-speech prediction…A Palin common sense op-ed always trumps a lying, content-lacking, boring,(but smoothly presented) speech by the naked emperor.
Nalea on September 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Lawsuits can be prohibitively expensive, and are always drawn out affairs. That also doesnt change the fact that you don’t get to sue if you can only afford the plebian plan and you come down with something not covered in said plan. And ‘shopping around’ can also be prohibitive, as not all of us have the resources to pay for decent care outside of our employer’s offering.
Look, im not saying Obamacare is an ideal solution, or a solution at all…but a lot of the opposition arguments seem to bring up potential issues that actually seem very similar to what we all already put up with…
ernesto on September 9, 2009 at 9:40 AM
This is why we must stop adding things to the list that we have promised to pay for.
Slowburn on September 9, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Legal counsel is a right, not a privilege! LegalCare Reform now! Pre-paid legal for everyone!
Akzed on September 9, 2009 at 9:50 AM
And yet, even if the choices are few for some, they still have a choice. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
littleguy on September 9, 2009 at 9:54 AM
And Charles Krauthammer had the nerve to ask Palin to leave the room. Sheesh!
Kini on September 9, 2009 at 2:05 AM
Apparently, she didn’t obey him. What did Sarah say in St. Paul last year? That she wasn’t going to Washington to seek their good approval? Really, Charles and company should have listened to that speech more carefully.
Sarah, I’m proud of you! Keep speaking for me!
NebCon on September 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Go Sarah! She has my vote for any office she pursues. She is authentic, she is not in it for personal power and she understands and believes in the correct role of government. She is exceptionally gifted in exposing the BS and corruption of our elected officials on the left and the right as well.
rcw on September 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM
Window shopping is no choice. Prohibitively expensive choices are not a compelling argument for the status quo.
ernesto on September 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM
How is a baby’s death in the best interests of the baby?
No death panels to see here, people. Move along.
hawksruleva on September 9, 2009 at 10:17 AM
This is absolutely disgraceful !!!
I am personally aware of TWINS who were born prematurely after 21 weeks of gestation. Due to their sharing the womb and the mother’s nourishment, twins are usually smaller and less-developed than a single baby at the same gestational age, and at birth, these twins each weighed less than 1 lb 8 ounces. They were both placed in incubators and breathed pure oxygen for a several weeks, one needed surgery on her digestive tract, while the other suffered temporary problems with his eyes, but both babies eventually pulled through. They are now six years old, a little small for their age, and the boy wears glasses, and they both walk and talk and play like average first-graders.
Their grandmother is a strongly pro-life leader of a Catholic prayer group, and she did everything possible to insist on the best possible care for her daughter-in-law and grandchildren, mostly paid for by PRIVATE health insurance.
This is what modern neo-natal medicine CAN do for premature babies. Where there’s a will, there may be a way. But people have to WANT to do it, for the children, whose lives are more precious to their parents than money. Which is why we should NOT allow some cold-hearted bean-counting bureaucrat to condemn these children to death based on arbitrary Government rules.
Steve Z on September 9, 2009 at 10:21 AM
10 words or phrases that describe Sarah Palin’s WSJ op-ed piece:
1)psychological moment
2)zero hour
3)moment of truth
4)hit the bulls-eye
5)preemptive strike
6)steal one’s thunder
7)hit paydirt
8)exquisite
9)get in one’s face
10)stir the pot
technopeasant on September 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM
If the only alternative allowed is worse than the status quo, the status quo has it. Real reform can only be had by including all alternatives in the discussion and by choosing the most promising ones. Obama’s “reform” is dogmatic, and one-sided — a poison pill.
littleguy on September 9, 2009 at 10:32 AM
This is why they fear her.
Bruno Strozek on September 9, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Because you’re not a Marxist.
You poor dear.
Jim Treacher on September 9, 2009 at 11:00 AM
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