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shmendrick on August 23, 2009 at 1:09 AM

Now if only we had a leader that could boil it down for the avg American so they could understand. Like how Palin boiled down the “nonelected panels of experts in the bill to “death panels”. DId CK “leave the room” where is his witty phrase to draw the citizens to the lack of healthcare tort reform. How many people know what “tort” means? 30%? 50%?

Now if only CK could “understand” the concept of simplification. sometimes 2 words are better than 50. like “greedy capialists” or “death panels” or “loan sharks” or “liberal scum” or “tax and spend liberal” or “Evil doers” or “Axis of evil” or “Evil Empire”

I think since CK has written SOOOOO many words in his live he has forgotten that words are powerful and the right combination of words are the most powerful force on earth. Like “life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness” or “forscore and seven years ago” or “tear down this wall” or a “day that would live in infammy”

CK needs to “leave the room” and go take some addtional classes it seems.

Now about that “tort” reform. can we not call it “ambulance chaser reform”? or “parisite reform”?

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Allahpundit on August 23, 2009 at 9:54 AM

Hmm. Don’t see it on the main page and the link gives a 404 error.

They will see, in all cases where power is to be conferred, the point first to be decided is, whether such a power be necessary to the public good; as the next will be, in case of an affirmative decision, to guard as effectually as possible against a perversion of the power to the public detriment.

It is along the second point that Mrs. Palin brought up her “death panel” concern, and it is along that point that her contribution has been appropriate.

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No contest.

What Charles is missing, as I said over in the thread under Rovin’s article, is what Joe and Jane Sixpack are thinking.

Charles needs to get past “redneck dumb”* and understand their take on the issues, why they think the way they do.

Sarah has no need to do so, she already gets it. For Charles to dismiss her out of hand is .. well, perhaps “Ivy League dumb” applies.

Mew

* for those not familiar, “redneck dumb” is a form of mental judo by which non-city folk allow city folk to think “just another dumb hillbilly” while waiting for an opportunity to profit off this mistaken assumption.

1. He is a neocon, not a conservative. Like many neocons, he started his literary career with New Republic. He is very pro-abortion and anti-capital punishment and, at best, squishy on Second Amendment rights. This is directly opposite to Palin.

2. Krathammer is an elitist. He has lived his entire life in NYC, Montreal and DC. Palin is the biggest threat to the power structure Krathammer is part of. Krathammer is a Harvard grad and believes Ivy Leaguers should be in control, even if they are ruining the country.

3. Religion: Krathammer is Jewish and Jews often view Evangelicals, like Palin, with suspicion.

… he just doesn’t get Sarah Palin, or by extension her supporters…

This is what the press and the Dems miss when they are eager to criticize Sarah Palin. To dismiss her is to dismiss her supporting base as irrelevant as well. All the shots that they throw at her only fire up support.

She may not be a presidential contender yet due to her negative polling, but she can be the driving force in the debate and an influence in the upcoming Congressional and Senate elections.

Her decision to resign is a big plus for debating issues that are before the country right now.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Inside the beltway is a dis-ease.

Retirees are arguably the most powerful constituency in the United States. It would be political suicide to threaten the lives of seniors in the cartoonishly villainous way Palin is suggesting. This applies equally to conservatives and liberals. They’ll raise taxes, they’ll sell debt to hostile foreign countries, and they’ll cut every corner they think the voters won’t notice. They will not cut entitlements to seniors in any meaningful way. That would almost take fiscal responsibility.

Palin misses the point, misdirects her readers’ fears, and ultimately misinforms them. She makes it too easy for the opposition to dismiss legitimate criticism of their health care plan. She has nothing substantive to contribute to the health care debate — a debate that fiscal conservatives have been decisively winning without her. If she cares more about defeating socialized medicine than posturing for the 2012 Republican primary, she should leave the room.

If you imagine Dr. K as the brilliant, aloof, Harvard trained attending physician, never wrong, and Palin as the naive medical student who has the temerity to question his judgement, then his remarks make sense.

The truth of the matter is this, Palin was able to distill the argument to its essence while Krauthammer was not.

I agree with Dr Zero’s criticism of his comments about Palin.

Normally, that’s a good thing. Most people with his assets will find themselves out in the real world, trying to make their way in the world and make a living, and thus far removed from politics.

CK’s unfortunate personal history jolted him off of that path. He has taken this as a signal to burrow his way into the belly of the beast, and to comment upon the actions and motions therein — and he’s been exceptionally good at this. I’m sure that there is some regret in his mind that he didn’t become a doctor, but he has done far more for the American people over the years by bringing a doctor’s sensibilities, intelligence, and values into the media.

That said, there is a shared arrogance between the doctor and the politician — both know what’s best for you better than you do. And there can develop a certain shared delusion about the values inside and the values outside.

And in this case, despite my high regard for CK and my frequent admiration for his words….I think he’s wrong.

Palin had it absolutely right when she talked about a “death panel”, and Krauthammer is absolutely wrong to dismiss it. Each of us has the right to, as Dylan Thomas put it:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

We should insure against the violations of our own values — if we fear cancer, but welcome the surcease of Alzheimer’s, we should be able to insure for that. If we fear incapacity, but welcome release, we should be able to insure for that. If we fear a wasting, but expect a coup, we should be able to ensure for that.

But nobody should be forced to insure against something because some nameless bureaucrat found it to be more cost-effective.

There are all sorts of horrors involved with medical treatment — would it be worse to know that your loved ones withdrew a feeding tube because you could not move or speak…while you could still think and feel? — or would it be worse to perpetuate a vegetative existence…when your beliefs would have long since admitted you into a better place without such artificial aids? Medicine is all about the patient’s values, beliefs, fears, and hopes. How could it possibly be administered properly by a government that believed that it should all be the same?

This “death panel” stuff is getting kind of old though it has exposed a lot of people such as the good Dr. K. Personally I would like to move on to her latest broadside at the sinking WH ship, that being her note about Tort Reform. Here she has put her finger on a fatal vulnerbility of the Dems. This needs to be talked up as much as possible. If the public catches on to this it’s all over for the other Zero.