Republicans And Their Death Panels

[Harry Hope]

http://blog.seattlepi.com/williamhare/archives/233870.asp

December 31, 2010

Republican Right Silent on Real Arizona Health Care Death Panel

Charles Grassley led the propaganda charge when it came to accusing the Obama Administration of intending to create a health care death panel. It is interesting to observe the stony silence of the senator from Iowa as well as that of his colleagues when a very real death panel has reared its ugly head in Arizona.

The high octane fuel that the Republican right runs on is propaganda and with it the concomitant byproduct of hypocrisy. The name of the game is to keep accusations toward the opposition spinning while maintaining a bogus holier than thou attitude.

Such was the case with scores of issues designed to appeal to the pro-life religious right base. One of the most heinous examples in recent memory was the conduct of the Bush brothers in the Terry Schiavo tragedy. A loving husband, insisting that he was carrying out his wife's expressed wish, sought to bring a comatose life with no prospect of recovery to a humane end.

Here is where the Republican right wing propaganda stream kicks into high gear. Given the selected group's training, the religious right's indoctrination into watching Fox News has sufficiently programmed the designated group.

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Josef Mengele would be proud.

Harry

[Zoeisright]

1. Who the hell would unrec this? It's the truth.

The repukes also have perfected projection: they do exactly what they so quiveringly, self-righteously accuse Democrats of doing.

[CarmanK]

2. REAL DEATH panels in TX since 1999, signed by W.

The AZ legislature condemned nearly 100 people to death because they are poor. The purpose was to balance the budget, save 5 million dollars. Their priorities are screwed up and their humanity comes into question. And it was federal dollars, they were redirecting away from health care delivery.

However, the real DEATH PANELS with decision making authority over life and death is operational in TX. The law signed by George W. Bush (pro lifer) in 1999. Hospital committees are authorized to remove patients from life support, when they run out of money and cannot get some other hospital or facility to take them. It is plain, they have the power and authority to "kill" a human being if they RUN OUT OF MONEY. The republicans adopted this law to SAVE MONEY. They did not hesitate to implement it.

[bluestate10]

3. Democrats must call republicans bluff at every chance.

Democrats were way too silent during the health care reform fight, allowing republicans to set the narrative.