Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Sunday, August 16, 2009 2:18:15 PM
I think it's rather difficult for you to argue, as you do
here, that Sarah Palin is hapless and ineffectual (my words; yours are a bit more caustic) when her comment about "death panels" has resulted in purging the "end of life counseling" section from the bill, the President being forced to address the issue in person, and Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel cutting short his Italian holiday (boo-hoo) to renounce his earlier thinking on the subject:
She [Palin] crowed that she had him on the run, and the White House felt
that the doctor, who was being portrayed as a proponent of euthanasia,
needed to get out there and explain his opposition to euthanasia. So he
interrupted his hiking vacation in the Italian Alps to give a raft of
phone interviews saying he was taken out of context and calling Palin’s
charges “completely off the wall.”
But, much to Sarah’s delight,
he also conceded to The Washington Times that his “thinking has
evolved” on the “very vexing” issue of deciding who gets treatment and
who doesn’t.
“When I began working in the health policy area
about 20 years ago ... I thought we would definitely have to ration
care, that there was a need to make a decision and deny people care,”
he told the paper, adding that he now feels that if we get rid of
expensive “unnecessary care” that “we would have absolutely no reason
to even consider rationing except in a few cases.”
Sounds pretty effective to me.
Oh, and while we're on the subject, could you please stop with the trumped-up indignation that Palin uses Facebook, an online medium you describe as "more commonly used by kids hooking up and cyberstalking."??? After all, weren't you among the many media divas dazzled at the brilliance of the Obama campaign using Facebook, MySpace, iPhone apps, and online MMORPG ads as a way of reaching the "youth vote"?
You're lovely, bright and talented, Maureen, but you're sounding a bit desperate here. Tell you what - if you're determined to sink your teeth into washed-up vice-presidential candidates, why not talk about our fave philanderer
John Edwards?