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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin accused Democratic leaders of trying to "ram" the health care bill through Congress over the weekend and said voters should "look closely" because death panels remain in the legislation.

Palin took to Facebook a few hours after the late-night vote to tell her nearly 1 million supporters the bill was "disastrous" for the economy but they should "hold on to hope."

"We've got to hold on to hope, and we've got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country," Palin wrote. "The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business."

Palin, who used her Facebook feed to further the phony death panel meme earlier this year, brought it up again:

We had been told there were no "death panels" in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.

Palin took specific aim at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for holding a late night vote, even though that's been standard Congressional practice under both parties' control.

"Why did she push the 2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read this monstrous bill carefully, if at all?" Palin asked. "Was she concerned that Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal has called "the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced"?"

Palin closed with a threat for the midterm Congressional elections: "Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in 2010. It's their choice."

TPMDC found last week while covering the Capitol Hill Tea Party that Palin was one of the favorites of the 2012 GOP hopefuls.

Several tea partiers said they only voted for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) last year because Palin was on the ticket.

"I voted for the chick," said Mike Alfred of Columbus, Ohio. "It was a cautious choice of McCain, I really voted for Sarah Palin."

Christi Becker, a freelance artist from a St. Paul, Minnesota suburb, told TPMDC she considered McCain a "Republican in Name Only" and "supported Sarah Palin" on last year's presidential ballot.

One of the signs we spotted at the tea party: "Read my lipstick: No more debt."

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November 9, 2009 10:29 AM   

We had been told there were no "death panels" in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care.

So, if we follow that logic (logic-impaired Republicans will just have to trust me on this), I guess it would be committing someone to a death sentence if they are not permitted to receive government funded health care by the "death panel."

What would that say about the members of Congress who want to make sure that government funded health care is not an option? I believe that Sarah is calling them mass murderers. Joe Lieberman would be our very own Idi Amin.

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November 9, 2009 12:50 PM    in reply to chimpale

Rrright. And NO insurance company would ever DREAM of deciding what conditions they won't cover.

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November 9, 2009 1:21 PM    in reply to jeffgee

Thank God for that! ;)

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November 10, 2009 12:21 AM    in reply to chimpale

Actually I read the entire thing and it does not have these words anyplace. "To save money, a panel will convene periodically to evaluate whether a person should be allowed to live and get treatment or whether treatment is not available to a person with advanced state of a disease so the person will be allowed to die in order to save treatment dollars." If anyone finds such a statement, please post it on Talking Point Memo for all to see. To those making these far out statements. either post the proof or we know you are just politicking. My suggestion in that case it for you to quit fear mongering errr telling lies.

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November 9, 2009 10:30 AM   

Apparently Sarah Palin hasn't recognized America since the 1920's.

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November 9, 2009 10:38 AM   

"I voted for the chick,"

Words fail me.

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November 9, 2009 2:43 PM    in reply to mans_best_friend

What's funny is that had Palin kept her mouth shut, that wouldn't have been such a laughable statement. Every time she speaks, shit falls out.

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November 9, 2009 10:56 AM   

One of the signs we spotted at the tea party: "Read my lipstick: No more debt."

This about the woman who left Wasilla in terrible financial shape after her tenure as mayor? Teabaggers really don't believe in research, do they.

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November 9, 2009 11:42 AM    in reply to Xantar

Perhaps they derive great enjoyment from bugging the hell out of liberals.

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November 9, 2009 11:47 AM    in reply to Silence

Perhaps they're crazy idiots.

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November 9, 2009 11:48 AM    in reply to Stroszek

Perhaps, you folks are becoming as nutty as the far-right paranoids.

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November 9, 2009 11:56 AM    in reply to Silence

Perhaps you can come up with a better retort than that.

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November 9, 2009 11:57 AM    in reply to Stroszek

Perhaps.

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November 9, 2009 12:31 PM    in reply to Silence

lol! Obviously you couldn't.

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November 9, 2009 1:39 PM    in reply to Silence

challenge of wits FAIL

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November 9, 2009 2:16 PM    in reply to Stroszek

Don't you see the 'logic' of silence?

The paranoid ones are not the ones crying 'death panels!', clinging to their guns at Presidential events, praying for Obama to die, voting for 'chicks' and holding pictures of piles of dead from 1945?

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November 9, 2009 12:22 PM    in reply to Xantar

No, they don't believe in research. They also don't believe in facts. What they do believe in is repeating the same old bullshit, over and over and over, because if you say something enough, it will eventually be true, right?

So we endured 8 years of Republicans claiming that Bush kept us safe, ignoring both 9/11 and the anthrax attacks. Bush is out of office, and Joe Lieberman is now claiming that the Fort Hood massacre was a homegrown terrorist attack. Get it?

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November 9, 2009 12:39 PM    in reply to CT Voter

This is the legacy of Rove & Luntz: Keep repeating your lies and eventually the low info crowd start believing and repeating it.

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November 9, 2009 12:51 PM    in reply to Xantar

Facts have a liberal bias.

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November 9, 2009 1:11 PM    in reply to jeffgee

"Reality has a well known liberal bias."

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November 9, 2009 2:22 PM    in reply to musgrove

Amen!

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November 9, 2009 11:01 AM   

MSNBC's Mike Barnacle asked panelists, I think in January, if in one year we'd still be talking about Palin. He didn't show any disrespect to them or Palin, but he really thought she would be a household name in a year. And I think he's a real smart guy.

But he got that wrong.

Who would save use from the death panels if we had no Sarah?

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November 9, 2009 11:17 AM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

"And I think he's a real smart guy.

But he got that wrong."

You got the "real smart guy' part wrong, too. He's a brainless mouthpiece for center right Beltway CW. He's part of the clueless Irish Catholic Male Who Grew Up in the 50's MSNBC Mafia that Bob Somerby has skewered to great effect on his blog.

Minor quibble, I know. But these alleged "liberals" need to be purged from the public dialogue. They are not helping.

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November 9, 2009 12:26 PM    in reply to brewmn61

Second. MIke Barnacle is no more of a liberal than Joe Lieberman is a Democrat. And he belongs firmly in the Chris "cigar smoke, Aqua Velva colgone" Matthews crowd of older white males, commenting on a society that is profoundly different from the one in which they came of age.

The society that is outside the Beltway, of course.

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November 9, 2009 1:10 PM    in reply to brewmn61

I don't think anyone's claiming he's a liberal, though. He's on Morning Joe a lot (maybe every morning), and that's a conservative show.

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November 9, 2009 1:26 PM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

I was more objecting to the "smart" part.

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November 9, 2009 1:48 PM    in reply to Overreach THIS!

Well, he comes from the populist, socially conservative, working class crowd that used to make up a lot of the Democrats, and like many of them has become more bitter and drifted a lot towards broader conservatism. 20 or 30 years ago his columns in the Boston Globe were moderately liberal, but by no means progressive.

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November 9, 2009 11:07 AM   

Katie Couric Alert:

"...digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal..."

Palin reads newspapers now!

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November 9, 2009 11:08 AM   

Sarah who? what state was she governor of?

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November 9, 2009 11:24 AM   

I'm still worried about Glenn Beck's internal organs...

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November 9, 2009 11:46 AM   

Holy shit?! There is some sort of panel-like body discussed in the bill? Everyone knows you can't have panels without death! I'm sorry for ever doubting you, Sarah!

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November 9, 2009 11:56 AM   

I'd support DEATH PANELS if Scarah Palin would only stand in front of one.

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November 9, 2009 11:59 AM    in reply to Deo

Sarah Palin ain't gonna let nobody take away her baby's Medicare.

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November 9, 2009 12:04 PM    in reply to Deo

I came here to read for myself the vicious hate mongering of the left. I'd heard about it, but never actually read it until now.

It's far worse than I ever imagined.

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November 9, 2009 12:08 PM    in reply to Silence

How's the view from that cross?

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November 9, 2009 12:20 PM    in reply to Stroszek

Just fine. It provides a superb view for the coming shit storm.

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November 9, 2009 12:21 PM    in reply to Silence

Ah, the rapture. Well at least you think that you are "saved." Good luck with that.

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November 9, 2009 12:30 PM    in reply to Michael A

Me? Na. I'm going straight to hell with the widow's son.

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November 9, 2009 12:24 PM    in reply to Silence

You heard about it? Wow. That's like Sarah Palin hearing about death panels.

I'm impressed.

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November 9, 2009 12:49 PM    in reply to Silence

Go to the Anchorage Daily News website adn.com

Read the commments under the letters to the Editor.
You can get 400% of your daily dose of right wing hate.

Enjoy!

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November 9, 2009 1:12 PM    in reply to lilysdaddy

Ah. The never ending battle of morals.

What to do? What to do?

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November 9, 2009 1:25 PM    in reply to Silence

It is a hard balance isn't it.

I was more of a centrist until the Iraq war.
I disagree with the war based on financial sustainability. I thought the first war was going to cost billions and would cost lives. I thought it was unwise to start another war before we had a handle on the first one.

I couldn't say anything though because at the time if you disagreed about Iraq you were a traitor, a far out liberal, a commie and you hated our flag and country.

It was the first time in my life as an American I felt that I could not speak my mind and I blamed George W Bush and Dick Cheney for that. It pushed me to the left because I saw the right wing leaders control the populace with fear and hate. I also felt they abused a natural nationalistic love for our country. They twisted that into a hammer to silence anyone from speaking their mind in opposition.

Just curious, are you here to TROLL or do you actually have something worthwhile to say about ANYTHING.

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November 9, 2009 1:29 PM    in reply to lilysdaddy

Troll.

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November 9, 2009 1:55 PM    in reply to lilysdaddy

From high atop my "cross", I find both sides equally guilty of crimes against the individual.

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November 9, 2009 2:56 PM    in reply to Silence

From high atop my "cross", I find both sides equally guilty of crimes against the individual.

That's what Republicans say when they can't defend the idiocy of their own party. It's always "Well, both parties are just as bad." It's like all of the Republicans who started criticizing Bush after he was out of office.

If you think this is angry and mean, then broaden your horizons a bit and check out what your beloved right-wingers are doing. Hint: go visit a tea-bagger rally. We can't even begin to match their hatred, nor do we want to.

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November 9, 2009 12:53 PM    in reply to Silence

Live up to your handle and we'll all be better for it.

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November 9, 2009 1:48 PM    in reply to jeffgee

ignorance is strength
war is peace
slavery is freedom
silence is trolling

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November 9, 2009 1:57 PM    in reply to roy_flagg00

Will Silence do good?

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November 9, 2009 2:07 PM    in reply to jeffgee

I'm afraid that's not possible.

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November 9, 2009 1:56 PM    in reply to Silence

You call this "vicious hate mongering"?

Pretty thin-skinned, huh?

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November 9, 2009 2:42 PM    in reply to Silence

Fine. Go look at the link above to what passes for comments from the good Christians on the right and tell me how we're just like them.

http://www.americablog.com/2009/11/teabaggers-attack-holocaust-survivor.html

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November 10, 2009 10:46 AM    in reply to Silence

I for one am just happy to know that people of your ilk can read. I had heard that you were all illiterate. So I guess we all get to find out something new today. And, as far as imagination goes, I believe that may be part of the problem. All imagination, no reality is part of what is so scary about you teabaggers.

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November 9, 2009 12:14 PM   

When is this "chick's" 5 minutes of fame going to be over. When? She is a nobody from nowhere Alaska for Pete's sake. And, she couldn't handle the job of governor of a state with a huge budget surplus, millions and millions in oil revenue royalties, and billions of federal handouts. Pathetic loser. All she can handle is regurgitating ridiculous, false soundbites and that is it.

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November 9, 2009 12:42 PM   

What a buncha dimwits are Sarah and her minions!

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November 9, 2009 12:53 PM    in reply to ttarleton

That Sarah sure has some nice wheels.

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November 9, 2009 12:59 PM   

Immoral slime.

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November 9, 2009 1:06 PM   

Sarah's supporters have a nihilistic agenda. They don't like the man who was elected by a much more decisive majority than W ever had. One Sarah fan I know who lives in a small town wanted a small-town person to "go to Washington and stick it to those bureaucrats"
As if we didn't have 8 years of conservatives sticking it to us when they had absolute power.
Another Sarah fan likes her "worldview", meaning she believes, like he does, in Bible-literal creationism, end-times and the rapture. And because the rapture may come at any time, governance is not necessary. And Sarah wasn't good at that.

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November 9, 2009 1:09 PM   

I live in Anchorage.
Now that Governor Parnell is in charge, we have much less drama to deal with, so we can get on with real business.
Palin broke Alaska in two.

First she took on "Big Oil" by religislating the state taxes and charging back taxes to collect an extra 6 billion in state revenue. This made the conservative business folks unhappy.
Next she gave away 500 million of the 6 billion to a Canadian gas company to try to jump start a gas pipeline which has gone nowhere. This had mixed support, but was controversial.

Next she gave 744 million away ($1200 for every man, woman and child who was already receiving a $2000 state dividend). This was hailed by all Alaskans. Hey, everybody like free money, right -- Wait minute - Is this socialism?? Nope, just spreading the oil wealth around. For some reason the conservatives in Alaska LOVE any money the state gives to them, but HATE all government handouts to the "greedy, lazy lowlifes". Conservatives that were upset with her gas line giveaway and her increasing taxes were happy to receive lots of free money.

Next she became McCain's running mate. The Conservatives hailed her as "THE Greatest Alaskan politician that ever lived". The McCain campaign brought in the "Truth Squad". I am not making this up. The "Truth Squad" to communicate the truth to Alaskan's while Palin was on the road campaigning. Palin did not hand leadership over to the Lt. Governor. She retained her leadership on the road and Alaskans could not speak to her at all. Her actions during the campaign made the Liberal slanted folk in Alaska angry.

So, here we are, Alaska has been enjoying the heated liberal vs conservative rhetoric ever since Palin became "The Chosen One".

She is still inflammatory and divisive. She has a natural talent to bring out the worst in people and push a bizarre populist agenda that changes daily depending on the wind or tea leaves or whatever voices are going on in her head.

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November 9, 2009 1:22 PM    in reply to lilysdaddy

Don't worry! We've got her number!

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November 9, 2009 1:30 PM    in reply to lilysdaddy

She also has impeccable foreign policy credentials.

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November 10, 2009 9:56 AM    in reply to lilysdaddy

"Religislating" may be a misspelling but I think it could be a new word for the GOP lexicon.
Religislating- using religion to make laws. Huckabee's on board.

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November 9, 2009 1:29 PM   

Do you Obama people do any research at all or just blindly believe what the Obama Media tells you?
Have you read up on the Health Choices Commissioner?
Have you read the Bills at all?

Obama's Death Panel/Rationing Panel/Cost Denial of Care Panel/ (whatever you prefer to call it) does indeed exist. It lives and breathes inside the Stimulus Bill as the Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission".

Just try appealing a Government run denial whose foundation is rationing.

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November 9, 2009 1:32 PM    in reply to krazyharry

Do you just blindly follow what train wreck beck or lush tells you? Just asking.

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November 9, 2009 1:34 PM    in reply to krazyharry

Please point to any part of any bill that states that the recommendations of such a commission would be compulsory. They are (I'll type slow so you can follow this) R-E-C-O-M-M-E-N-D-A-T-I-O-N-S.

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November 9, 2009 1:56 PM    in reply to mans_best_friend

And the HHS commissioner simply defines the minimum benefits that must be offered by a plan in the exchange. It does not make any administrative decisions about policy holders. It merely sets a standard for what policy holders are guaranteed to receive. The commissioner, in other words, guarantees certain benefits, the very opposite of the death panel claim.

And as it stands, there are no minimum benefits standards as of now, so according to the Palin nutters, we're already knee deep in death panelism.

But hey, I got my info from actually reading the bill. Clearly, I should drop this whole "first-hand information" hogwash and rely on some random nutcase's blogspot for all my opinions.

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November 9, 2009 2:04 PM    in reply to mans_best_friend

And, of course, the recommendations of CERC have nothing to do with private insurers.

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November 9, 2009 1:35 PM    in reply to krazyharry

I think you're missing a few talking points from the Republican checklist. You forgot to accuse Obama of being a socialist from Kenya who hasn't produced his birth certificate. Oh! And you forgot to insult Nancy Pelosi, too. You've got to get with the program here!

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November 9, 2009 2:12 PM    in reply to Xantar

You're right, and I'm particularly amazed that no teabaggers have yet said that the "libs" are scared to death of Sarah. Message from Earth to Planet Wingnuttia: Outside your bubble, she's a laughingstock. She's a celebrity, sure, but so is Balloon Boy. It's highly unlikely she'll ever again hold elective office, and it's quite doubtful that she wants to. Sustained, disciplined effort toward a goal is simply not something she's demonstrated much in her life. We're not scared. I know you don't believe me. But we're not. Sorry.

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November 9, 2009 2:36 PM    in reply to MattinPA

I AM SCARED! We should all be scared if the likes of her wind up taking any position of power!

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November 9, 2009 1:45 PM    in reply to krazyharry

good thing there's currently no rationing or denial of care by the insurance companies. duh.

and with 40,000+ people dying each year because they DON'T have health insurance, the REAL "death panel" here might be made up of the republicans who stand as one to continue to deny them that coverage (and in fact INCREASE the number of people without coverage).

or maybe the REAL "death panel" is made up of the insurance companies who rescind coverage, deny coverage for preexisting conditions, and/or who deny coverage or potentially life-saving treatments.

take your pick.

go be stupid somewhere else.

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November 9, 2009 1:57 PM    in reply to krazyharry

you forgot to tell us he's black

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November 9, 2009 2:03 PM    in reply to krazyharry

OMG EVERYONE LOOK WHAT I FOUND ON THE INTERNET THE TERRIBLE TRUTH: http://www.factcheck.org/2009/02/doctors-orders/

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November 9, 2009 2:30 PM    in reply to Stroszek

For God's sake, Stroszek, don't be botherin' these good people with "facts"! They're busy hating how hateful all the Liberals are, the ones that want to kill old people and are using this "healthcare reform bill" as a way to make sure more people CAN'T get the health care that they need! They're BUSY! And don't ask them to explain why anybody would want anything like what they're accusing the scary mean liberals of wanting, because there's your answer right there! Scary AND mean! And death wanting! And less healthcare for all! Liberals are such a-holes! But Silence and Krazy, and their ilk don't need to see any stinking "facts." All the "facts" they need are being vetted and spewed for them by Limbaugh, Beck and their witless warrior princess, Sarah Palin.

Speaking of facts, by the way, has anybody here read Max Blumenthal's book, REPUBLICAN GOMORRAH?
Mindblowing.

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November 9, 2009 3:17 PM    in reply to krazyharry

Obama's Death Panel/Rationing Panel/Cost Denial of Care Panel/ (whatever you prefer to call it) does indeed exist. It lives and breathes inside the Stimulus Bill as the Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission".

Brilliant. You can read the entire bill online without any of the filtering and 'translation' from your dumbass anti-Obama website. Go there now and find us the part that says "death panels" or something vaguely resembling such:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111TtHwuO:e888120:

If you can't understand the big words, we'll help you out with them.

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November 10, 2009 12:10 AM    in reply to krazyharry

Krazy Harry: Government rationing? What about the rationing we currently have from health insurance companies????? Consider yourself lucky (and in the minority) if you have never been denied coverage nor do you know someone who has been denied coverage by a "health" insurance company....and wake up. If left "as is", the existing healthcare system we have will not be able to function in a few years. Many who currently can afford insurance will not be able to.

I will take my chance w/ this government regulated health program over what we currently have with the sleazy health insurance industry any day.

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November 9, 2009 1:57 PM   

Just try appealing a Government run denial whose foundation is rationing.

Just try appealing a privately owned health insurance company denial whose policies include recision, and denial of care to covered individuals for clerical errors and trumped up "pre-existing conditons", whose foundation is profit above all else and who would rather see you and/or your kids die than see their CEO have a smaller bonus.

You just keep doing what the TV tells you to do, Krazy.

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November 9, 2009 2:01 PM   

I see Sarah isn't using her off time to work on her IQ.

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November 9, 2009 2:08 PM   

And again, why is SP on these pages? Why is what she "says" covered by anything thing besides the flies that the piles of complete horse shit falling out of her empty head attracts?

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November 9, 2009 2:10 PM   

And again, why is SP on these pages? Why is what she "says" covered by anything thing besides the flies that the piles of complete horse shit falling out of her empty head attracts?

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November 9, 2009 2:23 PM    in reply to Willa Standing

Because she speaks for the people who could steal Congress from complacent, unmotivated Democrats in 2010 and we can't ignore them out of existence. No one becomes a Palin supporter because TPM covers her. She gets no money, no support. What the coverage does do is make sure the "I'm not going to vote for them because they didn't do exactly what I wanted, when I wanted and I'm not going to be bullied by warnings about how bad the alternative is" faction fully understands the consequences of their decision.

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November 9, 2009 2:33 PM    in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

Point taken.

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November 9, 2009 2:59 PM    in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

The one [major] problem with that approach is that complacent unmotivated Democrats don't read TPM.

The corollary to that hitch is that even if every Democrat were motivated to get off his/her respective complacent ass and voted, there's still the problem of the apathetic, unmotivated, disinterested Independent voters who actually outnumber the Democrats. They don't read TPM either.

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November 9, 2009 3:07 PM    in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

What the coverage does do is make sure the "I'm not going to vote for them because they didn't do exactly what I wanted, when I wanted and I'm not going to be bullied by warnings about how bad the alternative is" faction fully understands the consequences of their decision.

Don't worry Steve, I'm sure the Conservative dems will get what they want in the end, and vote how you wish

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November 9, 2009 5:47 PM    in reply to Indie Pro

You could always vote for Ralph Nader next time. What's the worst that could happen?

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November 9, 2009 6:29 PM    in reply to mans_best_friend

you are full of bullshit talking points.

Well, if it is anything like 2000, I'd say that the Supreme Court wil step in and, oh wait -crap, Nader had othing to do with that.

I voted for Gore. I'd vote for Gore again, too.

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November 10, 2009 9:20 PM    in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

Because she speaks for the people who could steal Congress from angry, disillusioned, unmotivated Democrats who don't see much reason to bust their asses again for a party that uses them for toilet paper between elections in 2010 and we can't ignore them out of existence.

Fixed that for ya.

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November 9, 2009 8:31 PM   

Actually I think that Facebook itself is the end of America as we know it.

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November 9, 2009 10:27 PM   

"The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business"

Why Sarah that would be you. Back in October 2008 you were a "government leader (re: governor)" and also held the important politicial leadership position of party VP nomiee. There was this little bill called TARP that got America hugely involved in the mortgage business, and you know whose support was important in getting some republican lawmakers in congress on-board so the bill would pass? Sarah Palin!

"But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy um helping the… oh - its gotta be all about job creation too - shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reigning in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans and trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity not as competitive um scary thing but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today we we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity - all those things under the umbrella of job creation - this bailout is a part of that."

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November 10, 2009 2:28 AM   

Disastrous is listening to any thing that Sarah Palin has to say!

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November 10, 2009 6:07 AM   

Republicans are cultists. They are pathologically incapable of recognizing faults in those who have been designated as their leaders. These are the same people who worship "Ronaldus Magnus", a guy who got into office by "palling around with terrorists". He sold arms to terrorists in Iran, gave the money to terrorists in South America (and admitted it on national television), cut and run from still other terrorists in Lebanon, turned America from the world's biggest creditor to the world's biggest debtor, began the modern era of bloated defense contracts that suck up all our money and the era of modern deregulation that led to multiple industrial and financial meltdowns and let his subordinates secretly run things behind his back. Oh, and 8 years of head-in-the-sand rhetoric on everything from AIDS to drugs.

With a resume like that, how could "I Dunno But Alaska" possibly top Dutch with nothing but a few pretty words?

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November 10, 2009 9:07 AM   

One of the many wonderful things about the United States is that it has room for the fulmination of complete assholes like Palin.

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November 10, 2009 6:43 PM   

Can Scarah get it together long enough to build her own website so she can stop using FB??? Really, can she finish ANYTHING?

When Palin is on OPRAH hawking books will she bar press and cameras?????

Sarah Palin/Fabio 2012!

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