She couldn't spell "intellectual heft".

Nor could anyone in that family of hers. There--I attacked her family again.

Limbaugh also said that you don't have to be old for the death panel -- you just need to have a disease that the government decides is too expensive to treat.

Funny. That's what the private insurers do. It's called recisions. Remember when the CEO's of the private insurers refused to stop doing recisions? Recisions are triggered when a high dollar claim is submitted, causing the insurer to cancel the policy.

How long would Steven Hawking have gotten his insurance if it had been through one of the private health insurers in America? Certainly not the last 47 years as he has gotten through Britain's National Health Care.

Why can't we have that kind of care, Rush?

And pray let us not overlook "lead to the regulation of every lifestyle or life in this country." Perish the thought. Neither Limbaugh or Palin would ever be in favor of government regulation of lifestyles.

God, the last ten days feel like teh 'stoopid has collapsed under it's own weight into a black hole that's devouring everything in it's vicinity, including information and even light. And I've got this feeling that the whole country is spiraling ever closer to it's event horizon . . .

What the hell does Limbaugh know about 'intellectual?' About 'heft' he is an expert, what with his mighty stomach preceding his every direction. But intellectual? Well, at least Rush has an intellectual idol to look up to. The inmates have taken over the asylum!!

yeah, i'm really quite skeptical that palin actually wrote that herself.

seriously. compare that post with her resignation speech and i'm supposed to think the same person wrote it?

Palin didn't write that, that's for sure. But I just did a quick Google searche on 'Section 1233 Health Care' and the first several hits were conservative sites extolling the virtue of Palin's comments - the meme is this: She forced the President into a one on one debate over the health care bill. Isn't she amazing for doing that!

She's got the engines working for a 2012 run. She can say any stupid stuff she wants and a battalion of aides and supporters will make it sound like it's considered opinion.

BTW? I read the specific section sited, 1233? Sounds GREAT to me. I would love to have as an option the ability to talk of end of life issues. Having gone through the deaths of all grand-parents, a father and a step-father, I know how hard and complex and expensive this can be. Just having someone to talk with is a boon. That this has been turned into some kind of paranoid fantasy - a bunch of suppositions and what ifs based on no actual cases except a general dislike of government run anything (Ironic that - didn't Palin, like, work in Government at one time?)

Why doesn't anyone bring up the pitiful situation Alaska's elderly poor are in since Sarah became governor?

Oh crap! They're going to put our medical records up on GOOGLE. Okay, okay, you finally convinced me. I'm against it now.

Good Gawd is Obama a Good Bull shatter.

think about this:

"He wants the White House, he wants the Executive Branch, to be making determinations of who lives and who dies"

and then remember this:

new orleans during and after katrina

and then maybe this:

terry schiavo

When "I would suggest that anybody who doubts her intellectual heft or her ability to learn and study" is followed by "go to her Facebook page" I stop reading.

You have to wonder if Democrats were set up by the Republicans on this. Seems like something the health insurance industry may have cooked up in advance.
The Democrats have been forced to play defense for the last two weeks. They need to get tougher and take the offense against the insurance companies.

Really? Intellectual heft? That's what you're going with?

She went from this:

"And one chooses how to react to circumstances. You can choose to engage in things that tear down, or build up. I choose to work very hard on a path for fruitfulness and productivity. I choose NOT to tear down and waste precious time; but to build UP this state and our country, and her industrious, generous, patriotic, free people!"

to this:

"Health care is without a doubt a complex and contentious issue, but health care reform should be a market oriented solution. There are many ways we can reform the system and lower costs without nationalizing it."

in less than a month...that is hefty.

Stunning, really. Unless, of course....

http://gawker.com/5336475/theres-just-no-way-sarah-palins-writing-her-facebook-notes