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The nightmare that is was our healthcare system.

If he keeps winning, we may have to give him some sort of lifetime achievement award:

The questioner, Cheri Heiland, persisted, telling Grassley, “You know there is nothing in the House bill that will require any elderly person to stand before a committee and decide whether or not they are going to live or die.” Much of the crowd booed and said she was wrong.

The senator instead went on to condemn the idea of end-of-life counseling, no matter how it is structured.

“I think the best thing to do is if you want people to think about the end of life, number one, Jesus Christ is the place to start, and after that, in the physical life, as opposed to your eternal life, it ought to be done within the family and considered a religious and ethical issue and not something that politicians deal with,” he said.

I did not know Jesus offered health insurance.

Grassley is Inhofe stupid.He is Jon Kyl stupid. He is, in fact, Michelle Bachmann stupid.

Why are we ruled by religious morons?

Grassley and Grandma [WaPo]

You may have heard that former healthcare-reform advocate Glenn Beck is losing advertisers because of some unkind remarks he made about Our Racist President. You may also have heard that Whole Foods is losing customers because its price-gouging, union-busting, competition-averse CEO made some unkind remarks about healthcare reform in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal.

Which suggests an obvious solution. Please, folks, no gunplay in the produce aisle — there’s enough arugula for everyone.

Should we have seen this coming?

WHEREAS, Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care and medical decision-making whenever patients are unable to speak for themselves and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions…

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Sarah Palin, Governor of the state of Alaska, do hereby proclaim April 16, 2008, as: Healthcare Decisions Day in Alaska…

Yes. Yes, we should have.

For ‘Death Panels’ Before She Was Against Them? Palin Endorsed End Of Life Counseling As Governor [Think Progress]

Healthcare Decisions Day [Sarah Palin/Google Cache]

It’s war!

1. Palinize (32 up, 121 down)

To attack a person for his or her conservative values by focusing an inordinate amount of attention on a single example of that person falling short (or being perceived as falling short) of the values they espouse. The term is derived from excessive criticism of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin by the mainstream media and other public figures after it was learned that Palin’s unwed teenage daughter was pregnant.

2. Palinize (110 up, 15 down)

to exaggerate the truth or lie by omission: I palinized my resume.

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It’s going to be a long 8 years.

Man carrying “death to Obama” sign at Maryland town hall detained by Secret Service.

The full sign actually read: “Death To Obama, Death To Michelle And Her Two Stupid Kids”

And on and on:

WESTWOOD — A man accused of making threats against the White House led officers on a wild freeway chase that ended in a standoff outside the Federal Building.

Although her speech and tweets are celebrated marvels of free association, America is being asked to believe that Talibunny’s Facebook posts are written in her own hand:

The provision that President Obama refers to is Section 1233 of HR 3200, entitled “Advance Care Planning Consultation.” [2] With all due respect, it’s misleading for the President to describe this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients. The issue is the context in which that information is provided and the coercive effect these consultations will have in that context.

What was that? A footnote? One of eleven? Show your notes, Sarah. Until you can prove you birthed your own post, we’re forced to conclude you bought it from a Kenyan term-paper mill.

Concerning the “Death Panels” [Sarah Palin/Facebook]