Oh, we're a heady lot here at theGOPisDEAD, ain't we? I can only assume that some of you viewing this post are the type who wear buttons to your kid's Parent's Weekend gatherings at UVA that read, "Guns Save Lives". So I should also assume you aren't familiar with a logic table. Not to worry. Thanks to leaders like Sara Palin and Rudy Giuliani, with their uncanny gifts of cogitation, science may as well rethink the fundamentals of trivial things like math and gravity so they not only conform nicely with your 18th century view of the world but so that you all can digest the big issues of the day in the time it takes you to microwave your Hot Pockets and jam 'em down your throat. Wow, some might call that a run-on sentence written by a sociopath. But I don't suspect you have time or need for periods or common sense.
Good old Rudy. I sure do wish he'd go back to trying to make the Notre Dame football team. He was so much likable back then, so full of gumption...
The Chicago Sun-Times has posted a nice piece about Giuliani's reaction to Palin's ridiculous 'death panels' scare tactic.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani argued today that “it is natural” to assume that the Democratic health care reform plan will lead to “death panels” making end-of-life decisions for seniors.
“This is a real concern not made up by radio talk show hosts,” Giuliani said.
He's partially right. It's a fake concern made up by talk show hosts and third-rate politicians.
Pressed on whether he himself believed the legislation calls for “death panels” to recommend hospice instead of treatment for the elderly, Giuliani said, “The only way in which you can save money the way the president and the House claims is by reducing care. So it is natural that some people would believe, particularly since they have these provisions for end-of-life decision-making councils, that it is natural that people would suggest that one of the ways you would do that is to cut off care for the elderly. Whether they will do that or not I don’t know. ... People assume these Death Panels will be created. They [Democratic legislators] have created that suggestion in the ambiguity of the legislation.”
Yes, it sure is natural to assume that taking a falsity and adding to it can only make it true. What's troubling is that Giuliani doesn't actually answer the question posed to him. That is, does he believe such a thing? Instead, he states it's just soooo ambiguous in the Dem's bill, it could lead to any natural assumption, like the government will set up a special panel to gas your elderly parents. No, don't repute it, don't help clear the confusion your party as created, just add to it until it's true. F***ing hell.
And just so you don't get the idea that we've got persistently engorged private parts for our Dem brethren and sisters, file this one under "spineless":
Democrats said their intent in covering counseling about end-of-life decisions for seniors was just to cover the cost of discussions about hospice care for seniors who under current plans cannot pay for that. But some Democratic legislative leaders said today they would remove the provision from the proposed legislation because of the uproar caused by critics calling them “death panels.”
Pathetic.
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