Sen. Grassley: ‘Death Panels’ are out.


Palin, 1: Left, 0.

Mind you, this is just from one version of the multiple health care rationing bills that the Democrats tried – and failed – to rush through Congress, but one step at a time.

The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday.

The committee, which has worked on putting together a bipartisan healthcare reform bill, will drop the controversial provision after it was derided by conservatives as “death panels” to encourage euthanasia.

Also, note the use of the term ‘conservatives.’ A rather odd term of art there, but if the article were to use the name ‘Sarah Palin’ it might suggest that a portion of the Democrats’ health care rationing scheme could have been neatly derailed by two Facebook posts by that woman.  Which can’t be allowed to happen at all, at all: why, the very idea is absurd!  Everybody knows that you have to graduate from an Ivy League school in order to be permitted to have any influence at all in public domestic policy debates.

Seriously.  It’s in the Constitution somewhere.  Look it up.

Moe Lane

PS: To answer Allahpundit; it’d be a potential win for the President if Gibbs had only kept his mouth shut.  In other words: no, it’s not a win for the President, too.

Crossposted to Moe Lane.


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Sarah Palins tears can cure cancer...

manfred (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 6:46PM EST (link)

Too bad she never cries…

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I'm sure you're attempting to communicate

Vegas_Rick (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 6:57PM EST (link)

an intelligent thought. But, it eludes me. Sorry.

“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.

you are being too generous...

manfred (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 7:45PM EST (link)

It was not meant to be intelligent at all… just a follow up to all the fun I missed out on yesterday. (see the 4palin post in the most recomended)

Did I offend you?

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Sarah Palins tears can cure cancer...

manfred (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 6:46PM EST (link)

Too bad she never cries…

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imagine this insanity being law if WE Americans did not...

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 7:24PM EST (link)

STOP THE BILL. If The One and the Democrats had their way this would have been signed sealed and delivered and law. I think each and everyone of us needs to pat ourselves on the back for stopping it thus far. Now that you have done that STOP and get back to work :-)

 

As not one of the Palinistas

Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 8:37PM EST (link)

Let me just say to the “intellectuals” on the left (and some on the right), underestimate Sarah Palin at your peril.

“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy

Yeah......someone might want to point this out to

The_Rebel (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 9:34PM EST (link)

Sen. Lisa Murkowski:

http://www.adn.com/life/health/story/895431.html

Hasn’t she heard of Ronald Reagan’s 11th commandment- “Thou shalt not speak ill of any other Republican”.

The term “death panel” may not be in the bill, but the intent is there as a reading of Palin’s new facebook posting today makes clear:

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=116471698434

Way to go, Sarah!

Sorry Moe,

The_Rebel (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 9:37PM EST (link)

for the redundant 2nd link.

No worries.

Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 9:42PM EST (link)

Nothing to apologize for, really.

 
 
 
 

Now, we need to kill each bill

RJD (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 9:18PM EST (link)

It’s great that this language his being removed, and it does illustrate the effectiveness of shining a light on these things, but there are what, four other bills out there (not counting the GOP’s)?
In the end, having sect. 1233 removed is a symbolic win, but it means nothing if Health care/insurance reform are signed into law by this Administration. The end result, or one of the results, will be a cost-benefit ratio determined by government suits/panels/commissions with little interest in the care provided to those who need it.

 

I find it unfortunate that the passage has been removed.

mbecker908 (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 11:02PM EST (link)

The history of the left (from which we should learn an important lesson) is one of incrementalism. They will take some relatively meaningless stuff out of a wholly offensive bill, whine about how their masterpiece has been gutted and then pass the 99% that remains and the Republicans pat themselves on the back.

This is no victory. If anything, it’s a setup.

Agree completely, mbecker. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad

eburke (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 11:14PM EST (link)

it’s gone but this is the modus operandi of Blue Dogs and RINOs…they remove some high-profile, onerous part of a disasterous bill, and aided by the Democrat National News Media, crow to their consituents and the world about how their ‘independence’ and ‘conservative values’ have made a *tremendous* difference in the bill and now they can vote for it. While at the heart and core, it’s still a crap sandwich.

Glad this got 86′d, but I agree with you, in some ways this makes it harder to kill the beast.

“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

Unified Patriots

Actually, it's got nothing to do with the BDs or RINOs.

mbecker908 (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 11:32PM EST (link)

It’s the legislative plan of the Left and the B&Rs are nothing more than tools to make it happen. And, I forgot to note above that the 1% that gets removed will go back in during the dark of night in some future legislative session.

 
 
 

Still dont trust em...

smitch61 Thursday, August 13th at 11:30PM EST (link)

Great start, but were still talking about socialized medicine.. Not good enough.

 

Thanks to Obama's stupidity this plays out

septembergurl (Diary) Thursday, August 13th at 11:38PM EST (link)

exactly as Sarah 1 /Zero zero.

It was striking that Obama ditched his (enirelyimaginary) job loss “improvement” to deny that there were Death Panels (using Sarah’swords) in his Saturday talk. Then at the “town hall” he brought it up twice though he was never actually asked about it. No Death Panels, nono, no way, misinformation! no death panels etc. Alll in response to 2 Facebook posts by a former politician.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: nobody gets inside Obama’s head and destroys his cool like Sarah palin; there was only one time when Obama was rattled in 2008 campaign, and that was the 2 weeks after Sarah was nominated. It was the height of dumbness for him to draw attention to this, especially since it was not just Sarah but a number of people who called attention to this.

This is why she had to resign see? She needs to be able to land those punches as only she can.

"All in response to 2 Facebook posts...."

yoyo (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 8:55AM EST (link)

Just imagine what she could do to him if she were to write a full column or OpEd?

I am with you, though. She can really rattle that man! She is the “Fingernails-on-the-Chalkboard” to him. When she speaks, it throws him so far off message – it becomes laughable!

All from a Hockey-Mom with a microphone.

Isn’t America GREAT?

(At least it STILL is, today….)

Nemo me impune lacesset
“No one will provoke me with impunity!”
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Pukin’ Dogs – The Fighting 143
Sans Reproache
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The ‘yoyo’ replaced my cigarettes January 22, 2006….

 
 

"There are no Death Panels in the bill"

Adjoran (Diary) Friday, August 14th at 4:32AM EST (link)

“and we also took them out – so there!”

It’s good to get this odious clause off the table, but the real “Death Panels” will be those still in the plan – the ones who decide which treatments are worth paying for at which ages and with which life expectancies (“You might not need the surgery. You might just go home and take pain pills.” – B. Obama). That’s where the majority of the “who lives and who dies” decisions will be made.

Now, we don’t know who will be on these panels, or who will appoint them, or how their decisions might be appealed. But we know for a fact they MUST be in any final versions, because you can’t cut costs without rationing care, and someone has to make the decisions.

Of course, First Families and those of members of Congress will be exempt from these determinations – whew! I was worried there for a while that they might be subject to the same levels of care as mere citizens, and we can’t have that, now can we?

 

Death Panel

cooperscopy (Diary) Friday, August 28th at 11:12AM EST (link)

It’s amazing to me that Sarah Palin with just that little old face book posting, changed the whole debate. And remember the media says she’s and idiot…..read Que Sarah: Sarah: at….http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/

Ron Victor