Sarah Palin Tosses Her Baby To A Bloodthirsty Crowd
Ugh. So far, I’ve managed to avoid sullying my keyboard with that foul, stinking belch of sulfur dioxide that came bubbling out of the melting Alaskan Tundra last summer, Sarah Palin. But now I suppose I must hold my nose and write about the evil skank.
I loathe demagogues, especially when they possess the magical combination of personality traits that guarantees success in the right wing: being mean and rock-stupid. Toss in her cruelty to animals and a willingness to outright make shit up and you’ve got the perfect Republican.
As you are well aware, unless you have the brains of an algae bloom, the insurance cartel — excuse me, I meant to say industry — has been spending a huge amount of money sending teams of screaming, jingoistic thugs around the country to disrupt town hall meetings on health-care reform. It’s an ugly tactic that is only used by scoundrels who know their position is untenable. They cannot win the debate, so they make sure the debate never takes place.
Enter Ms. Palin, an enthusiastic practitioner of The Big Lie. This was on her Facebook page, which I’m not going to link to because I don’t want to give her any more traffic. You can find it yourself if you want to.
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
There are at least two aspects of this I find nauseating.
First, her unctuous shedding of crocodile tears over the plight of the sick, the elderly, and the disabled would be a lot more convincing if these same people were not already the hardest-hit victims of the current mess. Rationed health care is a reality: if you have the dough, you have health care, and if you don’t, you die. It’s the plight of their blood-stained profits that these sociopaths are truly concerned about.
But that’s old news. The second, and far more disturbing thing about her statement is this: Here is a woman who has a child with Down Syndrome. She has just implied that Obama himself is going to set up a “death panel” that is going to kill her baby. I agree, such a hypothetical system would indeed be “downright evil.”
But what is also downright evil is exploiting your own defenseless, disabled child to make up an alarmist horror story about Obama being a baby-killer. An irresponsible, dangerous story that is almost certainly going to be believed by a surprising number of violent, moronic, well-armed nutcases. And that’s not hypothetical. The immoral bitch just did it.
