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Sarah Palin Clings to Death Panels

You know when a cranky kid tries to keep another kid from stealing a favorite toy?  They grab in and cling tight, and fall on the floor on top of it and shriek in a way that makes anyone but a kid the same age clamp their hands over their ears?  Well, that’s Sarah Palin with the Death Panels.

No matter how many people say there are no death panels – she will. not. let. GO!

That’s right, the Sarah Palin Facebook ghostwriter speaks again.  How do we know it’s a ghostwriter?  (counting on fingers)  Complete sentences, good English, and believe it or not; footnotes.  She may not be a “Talking Head” yet, but she’s most assuredly a “Talking Face.”

I have been vocal in my opposition to Section 1233 of H.R.3200, entitled “Advance Care Planning Consultation.”[1] Proponents of the bill have described this section as an entirely voluntary provision that simply increases the information offered to Medicare recipients. That is misleading. The issue is the context in which that information is provided and the coercive effect these consultations will have in that context.

Section 1233 authorizes advanced care planning consultations for senior citizens on Medicare every five years, and more often “if there is a significant change in the health condition of the individual … or upon admission to a skilled nursing facility, a long-term care facility… or a hospice program.”[2] During those consultations, practitioners are to explain “the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice,” and the government benefits available to pay for such services.[3]

Sooo… if people suddenly get very ill, and we talk to them about hospice and palliative care, THAT’s the death panel?  If we actually talk to them about dying, it means we want them to die. That’s the arguement.

And she just won’t let the terminology go.  Says Palin,

“The fact is that any group of government bureaucrats that makes decisions affecting life or death is essentially a ‘death panel.'”

Good God!  Do you realize what this means?  Is Sarah Palin’s very own son a… Death Panelist?   After all, Track Palin is working for”a group of government bureaucrats that make decisions affecting life and death.”  You know… the military.

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85 Responses to “Sarah Palin Clings to Death Panels”
  1. Misfit in Texas says:

    OH DUH! (as I bang my head on the desk) Sorry for the delay catching up to reality, today! That piece I just posted a link to MUST be the WSJ article already under discussion.

    Chalk it up to Vestibular Dysfunction

  2. Misfit in Texas says:

    This may have already been posted, but I just came across this article that says it was written by SP. It only takes the first sentence to know her Ghost Writer is the author of this piece as well.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400581157986024.html

  3. laprofesora says:

    I never use this phrase, but “Sarah, SHUT UP. JUST SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!!!” She is the meanest, lying, vilest, most hateful, lying, ignorant, lying, uneducated, lying, manipulative liar on the public secene in a long while. What can we do to make her go away?????????????

  4. PepperzMom (GA) says:

    Over at HP, Geoffrey Dunn has a great piece re: SP – likens her “writing” to a lip-synched singer’s performance.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palin-no-longer-writing-h_b_280161.html

    “The WSJ piece is yet another Palin lie.

    This new version of Sarah Palin is like those lip-sync groups from the ’90s that didn’t sing their own songs or write their own lyrics. She’s the Milli Vanilli of American politics.”

    Apt analogy by Dunn I say…

  5. PepperzMom (GA) says:

    47 SKY Says: September 8th, 2009 at 5:37 PM

    My apology for the typos. My key board is disfunctional.

    Nah, SP herself is dysfunctional.

  6. Misfit in Texas says:

    69 teutonic13 Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 7:44 PM
    hmmm- there has to be somebody….. dumber- with lower ethical standards…
    ———————————-
    Yeah, Ted Bundy maybe (no he is smarter still) . Sociopath, Psychopath, basically the same thing

  7. Tealwomin says:

    nut bunny…

  8. Grandma68 says:

    I thought Rupert Murdoch was a shrewd businessman.

    As we say in NC, when is he going to realize he’s bought a pig in a poke? Or should the bleached blondes at Fox should be afraid for their jobs? And will $$$arah get a new hair color? Oh I wish I were clever enough to photoshop that image!

  9. Elaine says:

    Does she know her son is using SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE?

  10. ENOUGHwiththetrainwreck says:

    while i was googling i found this fascinating read about bill kristol…. i am sure there are even better summaries of this particular toad – share if you know of a better site.

    http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/kristol/kristol.html

    i think it is all very interesting that palin’s new found “knowledge” of health care reform and the folks quoted in her op-ed can be tied to very conservative think tanks, of which one can be tied to murdoch. add in a bit of bill kristol lovefest and i think we know who wrote the op-ed

    ten bucks says kristol.

  11. ENOUGHwiththetrainwreck says:

    oh and back in July — this announcement was made in the WSJ:

    Two of the country’s largest human-resources consulting firms, Towers Perrin Forster & Crosby Inc. and Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc., agreed to merge in a deal reflecting recession-induced consolidation in the consulting industry.

    The combined company, to be called Towers Watson & Co., will have annual sales of about $3.2 billion with 14,000 employees. It will be publicly listed, as is Watson Wyatt. Towers Perrin is closely held.

    and….The merger will create the world’s biggest employee-benefits consultancy

  12. curiouser says:

    boy was I confused. apologies for the post at #32. the link was for the op-ed, Obama and the Bureaucratization of Healthcare.

    justafarmer – congrats on your impressive prediction!

  13. boodog says:

    Wally the Weasel.

  14. Madeline says:

    Our only hope is that Palin gets run over by a bus (no, her limo). We can’t tolerate these stupid, evil people (yes, she IS evil, and STUPID). By the way, we the people of Alaska have been paying for health care for her grandson from day 1, neither his Mom or Dad have health insurance., you know he is on Denali Kid Care. Also, Palin needs to establish a trust fund with all the millions she will get for her book deal for her “precious special needs child”, you know the one she ignores, so we the people don’t have to support him for the rest of his life. It’s only fair, anything else would be socialism! Either that or she can sign him up for a Death Panel.

  15. teutonic13 says:

    hmmm- there has to be somebody….. dumber- with lower ethical standards…

  16. boodog says:

    that makes EVERYBODY, teutonic!

  17. teutonic13 says:

    Sarah Palin will try to strangle any voice that sounds better reasoned or more intelligent than herself.

  18. Jeanette says:

    There but for the grace of God go I, and obviously our former Governor never went where my family went, and her blatant lack of understanding of the subject and her continued emphasis on death panels is inexcusable. I am deeply grateful for all the people who get out on the net every day and share their stories of dealing with terminal illness. Sarah supports the agenda of a sector of the medical industry that seeks to strangle to the voice of the doctor, and limit what they can and cannot do.

  19. VernD says:

    Good thing she has COBRA or something like that or Roo-Pert to pay her insurance premiums. The treatment costs for the Spin-Doctors are mounting.

  20. mommom says:

    I joined up at the WSJ and left this comment

    “””Mrs Palin should know about death panels.Like the one that allowed 254 senior citizens and disabled to die because of the death panel decisions that she made back before she quit and gave up being Governor of Akaska. The Federal government ,the very government she both ridicules and trys so desparately to be part of,had to step in at the request of Drs in Alaska and clean up her problems.

    Sarah Palin was the Chairman of the Boad of the Alaskan Death Panel.”””

  21. teutonic13 says:

    @ 54
    BigPete Says:

    “(we’re not lowering the tone of conversation, are we?)”

    Oh it’s def in the gutter- but we’re talking SP here- where else do conversations about her usually end up? And since we’re talking to her about her feelings on euthanasia – she’ll probably respond that they are probably just like kids everywhere else in the world. 🙂

  22. Empish says:

    Sarah on suppositories, ” I just hate flossing the wax out of my teeth.”

  23. boodog says:

    Well, I got here just in time! I can see by the level of humor that there are no adults around. 🙂 Has $P numbed our collective brains yet?

  24. North_of_the_Range says:

    Taking some inspiration from Lynnrockets and with apologies to Helen Reddy:

    I am Sarah, hear me roar
    on Facebook postings you ignore
    Since I don’t know much I still have to pretend

    That I’ve learned some health care lore
    and have An Issue just like Gore
    No one’s ever gonna Couric me again

    CHORUS
    Oh yes ghostwriters post
    But it’s posting for my gain
    Yes, they write my words
    But look at all my fame
    If I let them, they can post anything!
    I am wrong (Wrong!)
    I’m unconvincible (Unconvincible!)
    I am Sarah….

  25. ENOUGHwiththetrainwreck says:

    palinese at #18 —- sounds like billy willy kristol is writing for ms quittypants……did she dare ya or did she give you a kissie-poo? or did karl make you do it?

    did karl make sarah memorize the talking points at NCPA?

    is she actually alive? (sometimes i worry)

  26. Bernice says:

    What is she talking about anyway does she not know that the govt. is already doing this, well it sure was in 2005 when my father got sick with cancer. Not only did they talk to us about Hospice, BUT you want to talk about a DEATH PANEL? A death panel is when you have to beg for treatment for your parents while they OPENLY assess whether or not his life is worth the cost and time, by asking how old was his parents lifespan, what did they die of. They told me this is what they were doing without question! Thus I OPENLY begged for my father’s life, for them to allow him treatments. By the time they decided to send him for treatments it was too late, so said this doctor to me not once, but twice he told me if only they had sent him earlier. Those words I often reflect on!

    So this my numbskull friend Palin was under the care of George W. Bush!!!!!!

  27. ENOUGHwiththetrainwreck says:

    injuneau – fellow pastafarians have no fear……..the tentacles of silence have sp safely away from sharp objects, microphones, and apparently blackberries.

    we are still working on the rest……..much work left to be done, fur shure.

  28. BigPete says:

    teutonic13 Says:
    What do the Starship Enterprise and a roll of toilet paper have in common?

    They both circle uranus looking for klingons”
    **********
    Palin is so uneducated that she thinks an innuendo is a suppository!
    (we’re not lowering the tone of conversation, are we?)

  29. seattlefan says:

    @49 Sauerkraut.

    “Cling on” dingleberry! I just saw that today on one of my dogs. LOL! Works for me.

  30. teutonic13 says:

    @ 49 Sauerkraut.

    Here is an old joke

    What do the Starship Enterprise and a roll of toilet paper have in common?

    They both circle uranus looking for klingons”

    🙂

  31. teutonic13 says:

    @ 36 justafarmer Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 5:13 PM

    teutonic, she’ll probably testify via Facebook…

    **************

    That was pretty funny JAF- You couldn’t have scripted it better out of an Austin Powers movie-

    🙂

  32. kejia says:

    I don’t know why more isn’t made in the media about Palin’s ghostwriters. As you say, it’s quite obvious when Palin is writing and when someone is doing the writing for her. While many politicians legitimately have writers on their staff, one assumes that the ideas are those of the politician. The staff writer just pretties them up. With Palin, I fear that the *ideas* themselves, as well as the grammar come from an outside source, and that she will echo anyone’s ideas, so long as she gets to stay in the limelight.

  33. sauerkraut says:

    Sarah Palin is a cling-on? A dingleberry by any other name would still be Sarah Palin.

  34. Aussie Blue Sky says:

    seattlefan! Ninja Ghost Writer! Perfect! 😀

  35. justafarmer says:

    treehouse is open for chat!

  36. seattlefan says:

    This is so disgusting. She has to interject herself into the spotlight with her ninja ghost writer.

    I find it interesting that the right fringe bashes President Obama for using a teleprompter to deliver speeches he writes but it is ok for $P to deliver a message on FB that she obviously did not write. LOL! Irony anyone?

    On the bright side, Grassley threw her under the bus today. Hahahah!

  37. SKY says:

    My apology for the typos. My key board is disfunctional.

  38. SKY says:

    Just hearing name Sarah is irritating me. The problem we all have is we show her that she is important by responding to her stupid rants.

    The best way to treat this twit called Sarah the Quitter is to ignore her like she does not even exist.
    I think we are giving her to much coverage, and she in her own small crazy head, and her cronies think we are all threatened by her.
    It will be nice if we all stop paying attention to her rants on facebook.
    We can read, but dont make her feel important that what ever she is ranting affects us. That her go is to talk stupid and annoying stuff.

    I give her an F in everything she says, that matches her to a retard.

  39. Marcia says:

    This situation reminds me of “The Bridge to Nowhere” when Palin continud to repeat the same lies over and over, even after the truth had been revealed, and the McCain camp had already stopped discussing the topic.

    Is she afflicted with a mental disease that makes her think that if she continues to repeat lies that they are no longer lies? She has demonstrated this
    time and time again and it’s definitely one of her multiple symptoms of craziness.

  40. Simple Mind says:

    If the evil lies told by or authorized by Palin make you mad – good, they should. Now, use that anger. While you are still mad, e-mail both your senators and your representative in Congress. Tell them to support meaningful health care reform now and to vote for a robust public option. Palin’s power is her ability to motivate her wingnut faction. Like in judo, we can turn that strength by having her motivate us.

  41. Martha says:

    For the mudpups:

    ………quitter shouts at clouds…………..next…….

  42. pacos_gal says:

    In honor of Mrs. Palins death panels, I signed Joe Sestak’s petition for an up/down vote on a public option. In comments of the petition this is what I wrote.

    “I have health care because I’m at the moment I’m in Canada and see how their system works compared to ours. Having access to health care does not mean that one should not care whether or not your neighbor has health care, your family has health care or the person you don’t know but can still have human compassion for has health care. Some of the best health care in the U.S. is through the Active Duty Military System, and that I have had acess to also. Every person should have a fundamental “Right” to health care. What kind of country, can call itself free and let it’s citizens die without access to medical care or leave themselves and their families in debt for the rest of the lives because they do go into hospital. What kind of politicians don’t care about the people of their country and instead care more about the shareholders of a company. Has greed become so predominent in our society that everything else takes a backburner to it?”

    This is where you can sign if you want to:

    http://joesestak.com/healthcarepetition

    Fight BS with truth. Don’t let the politicians flip flop, lets have them put it on record what they are for.

  43. Martha says:

    This is what I have posted on the Huff, repeatedly, you would not believe how many folks do not know about this, so please help spread it around:

    There should be pictures of the ….354…. elderly and disabled that died under Palin’s “stewardship” in the Alaskan state capitol!

    http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/aug/10/palin-death-panel-remark-sets-truth-o-meter-fire/

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~PALIN’S OWN ALASKAN DEATH CAMP OF ELDERLY AND DISABLED~~~~~~~~~~~

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palin ran her own “death panel” in Alaska~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~

    July 15/2009

    Lisa Demer of the Anchorage Daily News has broken a story that adds another scandal to the growing list of scandals that have plagued this administration, and shines the light on Alaska’s very own health care crisis.

    Demer’s story centers on the horrendous condition of the Alaska’s state programs that are designed to help its most vulnerable citizens, the elderly and disabled.

    The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements. [snip]

    The moratorium is expected to last four or five months. State officials estimate about 1,000 Alaskans will be affected.

    A particularly alarming finding concerns deaths of adults in the programs. In one 2 1/2 year stretch, 227 adults already getting services died while waiting for a nurse to reassess their needs.

    Another 27 died waiting for their initial assessment, to see if they qualified for help.

    No other state in the nation is under such a moratorium, according to a spokeswoman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

    https://themudflats.net/2009/07/15/palins-health-care-priorities-and-alaskas-daughters/

  44. BigPete says:

    A ghost written post on Facebook is hardly “being vocal”.
    (Just sayin’).

  45. justafarmer says:

    boodog… I blush…
    but it was really too easy…

  46. boodog says:

    you are good justafarmer!

  47. justafarmer says:

    lol, Aussie…I’m just psychic that way…
    for those who may doubt on today’s open thread:

    #65justafarmer Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    teutonic, she’ll probably testify via Facebook…

  48. Aussie Blue Sky says:

    28 justafarmer Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 4:41 PM
    Aussie Blue Sky, I predicted this in response to teutonic in an earlier thread here today!
    ——————————-
    I know, but it’s Wednesday morning here and I was asleep then, so I read it well after it came true. I did chuckle and think what a clever farmer you are.

  49. Pat in MA says:

    This woman makes my blood boil… liar, quitter, distorter, opportunist

    “Section 1233 authorizes advanced care planning consultations for senior citizens on Medicare every five years…

    first, what is being ‘authorized’ is REIMBURSEMENT to the consulting health care professional and second, the consultation is NOT initiated by the health care professional but by the PATIENT..

  50. Lee323 says:

    Palin: “The fact is that any group of government bureaucrats that makes decisions affecting life or death is essentially a ‘death panel.’”

    She should know…..a fox smells its own hole first.

    Mrs. Palin was the top government bureaucrat in Alaska who made life or death decisions for her citizens. Her “Death Panel” wasn’t just rhetoric though…..254 elderly and disabled Alaskans in the state Medicaid program actually died as a result of her decisions as governor.

    Sarah Palin knows so much about death panels because she wrote the book on death panels and implemented it successfully in her own state……until humane, courageous health care givers in Alaska contacted Medicaid at the Federal level who stepped in to investigate and put a stop to Palin’s Death Panels.

    We must relentlessly run this vermin to ground.

  51. curiouser says:

    oh…it looks like this latest death panel piece is an op-ed in the WSJ.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400581157986024.html

  52. I See Villages from my House says:

    I absolutely call BS on this being a body of work Sarah Palin could ever hope to produce. Ghostwriter(s) must be lining up. She finally bit the bullet and got over her (anti-elitist insecurity) superiority complex and is allowing policy wonks to write and build up her brand.

    For one, she does not have the patience or the interest to dig through the minutiae of legislation to arrive to any understanding or conclusion on how they play out to the population; two, she wouldn’t be alone in not knowing how to decipher those stereo-instruction policies and translate it into laymen terms to incite fear and loathing that is her platform.

    And does she just not GET IT, that she wants to be that VERY government bureaucrat to decide the kind of healthcare that half the population receives in this country? That’s right, Family Planning is a healthcare feature, imagine that.

    You have to hand it to her, she seems to be able to achieve something highly paid publicists, spin-doctors and PR specialists are unable to capture, the ability to direct debate from a free and unchecked source – Facebook. She said she’d ‘effect change’ without a title, and even as a quitter she can crow her prowess against MSM and That One. But remember Sarah, much like how the campaign was forced to play around you, you wouldn’t stand a chance in a Q&A situation. In a shaky, halting voice, you dared your adoring crowd to play “stump the candidate,” well, you never did allow for questions did you?

    Go ahead, hide behind your Facebook, you know you need it more than anyone needs you.

  53. anadventurer says:

    On the left side down at the bottom is “report page”, popping up a window. Choose FAKE PAGE and put in your version of:

    “Clearly Sarah Palin is NOT writing the releases posted here under her name.
    Just compare her twitter account and every press releases and speech she gave as Governor of Alaska. ”

    (Don’t use the same wording as it may be dismissed by FB staff.)

  54. mattie says:

    everybody email whitehouse.gov and tell them we need a public option.

  55. anadventurer says:

    And you though you would not have anything to write about…. Who will take her seriously when she is using a ghost writer on FACEBOOK as her outlet? I mean that is pathetic.

    OH OH OH! I am going to go complain to Facebook that THAT is NOT Sarah Palin writing there. Everyone, follow me to Facebook and report Sarah’s page!

  56. justafarmer says:

    Aussie Blue Sky, I predicted this in response to teutonic in an earlier thread here today!

  57. Aussie Blue Sky says:

    25 pvazwindy Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 4:24 PM
    A prolific writer she is. The gal has talent, like flute playing, pageant walking, lying, etc. Simply amazing.
    ———————————————–
    Now she’s telling the Wall Street Journal that the first thing health care should be is “market-driven”. I wonder if the WSJ knows that the majority of its readers would only have contempt for Mrs Palin and her weirdo cult.

  58. kareninTexas says:

    nswfm CA—I totally agree.

  59. pvazwindy says:

    A prolific writer she is. The gal has talent, like flute playing, pageant walking, lying, etc. Simply amazing.

  60. nswfm CA says:

    Here’s hoping she is on her own death panel and falls on a very big sword, soon.

  61. WDYC says:

    Lil darlin’s spreading like syphilis in a gold camp.

  62. curiouser says:

    The death panel lie is dying and Palin’s trying to revive it.

    debinOH – yes, her timing does seem to relate to Pres. Obama’s activities.

  63. Aussie Blue Sky says:

    17 justafarmer Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 4:13 PM
    HA!!!!!
    I predicted this earlier today!
    ——————————–
    I didn’t see your prediction until after the event, so it was doubly funny. 🙂

  64. Aussie Blue Sky says:

    Tantef Says:
    September 8th, 2009 at 3:34 PM
    oops…evidently I am in moderation. I used a bad word. Scara has that effect on me I guess.
    ———————————-
    I’m glad you think you know why you went there, because I sure as heck don’t know why I’m there.

  65. WDYC says:

    Sarah’s going at it tooth and thong…..two postings in one day –
    Obama and the Bureaucratization of Health Care by Sarah Palin
    Share
    Today at 7:34pm
    The president’s proposals would give unelected officials life-and-death rationing powers.

    By SARAH PALIN

    Writing in the New York Times last month, President Barack Obama asked that Americans “talk with one another, and not over one another” as our health-care debate moves forward.

    I couldn’t agree more. Let’s engage the other side’s arguments, and let’s allow Americans to decide for themselves whether the Democrats’ health-care proposals should become governing law.

    Some 45 years ago Ronald Reagan said that “no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds.” Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

    We also know that our current health-care system too often burdens individuals and businesses—particularly small businesses—with crippling expenses. And we know that allowing government health-care spending to continue at current rates will only add to our ever-expanding deficit.

    How can we ensure that those who need medical care receive it while also reducing health-care costs? The answers offered by Democrats in Washington all rest on one principle: that increased government involvement can solve the problem. I fundamentally disagree.

    Common sense tells us that the government’s attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. And common sense tells us to be skeptical when President Obama promises that the Democrats’ proposals “will provide more stability and security to every American.”

    With all due respect, Americans are used to this kind of sweeping promise from Washington. And we know from long experience that it’s a promise Washington can’t keep.

    Let’s talk about specifics. In his Times op-ed, the president argues that the Democrats’ proposals “will finally bring skyrocketing health-care costs under control” by “cutting . . . waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies . . . .”

    (clipped)

  66. aussiegal77 says:

    It’s the same argument as:

    – If you happen to be in the same room as a person who was engaged in domestic terrorism when you were barely 10 yrs old, then you are best friends with this person, want to destroy this country and is a socialist/communist/fascist

    – If you, like every other citizen of your home state of Hawaii, uses the short form of your birth certificate which was issued by the State Department to prove your citizenship, then you are born in Kenya, is a citizen of Indonesia and are out to destroy this country from the inside out via a nefarious plot began even before your conception

    – If you have a Muslim sounding name then you are secretly a Muslim who is hell bent on destroying this country

    – If you do not wear a flag pin the size of a baby’s fist, you are secretly a terrorist bent on destroying this country

    – If you speak to school kids, in your role as the President, you are secretly trying to indoctrinate them in socialist ideals. Even if your entire speech shows otherwise. This just proves you’re lying

    It’s sickening. And wrong.

  67. justafarmer says:

    HA!!!!!
    I predicted this earlier today!

  68. Aussie Blue Sky says:

    I’m never likely to read it but if it has footnotes, c4p wrote it. Easy. Mansour and the non-Americans can’t help themselves from going all formal even though I doubt any of them truly believe the culties can read and/or comprehend much of what they write.

    Anybody else paid to write BS for Mrs Palin to sign would be in touch with reality enough to know that footnotes really have no place with their uneducated semi-literate audience.

  69. mattie says:

    OMG I am so stupid, she is on chrystal meth. that explains everything. the weight loss, the speech. the erratic behavior.

  70. kareninTexas says:

    I hate her more and more everyday.

  71. Laurie says:

    ugh….I have no words. What a piece of work that woman is. I don’t get why the media even give her the time of day. She quit…she is a quitter. What gives her the right to speak for anyone else? Why do some listen? The right …or at least a portion of it, has become so very ugly. Its a disgrace, and its embarrassing that human beings behave in this way. Between the death panels, and the president trying to indoctrinate the young ….people are just becoming more stupid by the day.

  72. pvazwindy says:

    I don’t understand how she can lob all these fireballs from the tower of facebook, and not be called on any of them. It’s like she ‘s a phantom. She’ll come out only when it suits her. To seize a news event and turn it into a political stance, one that suits her. I know, she’s a coward.

    And to sign her name to these writings, surely, she knows that means she owns them. The day will come when she has to defend them and she will be so totally lost. That day cannot come soon enough for me. My gag reflexes need a rest.

  73. Seagull Junker Palin says:

    Until she sits down with her own death panel – i.e. Meet the Press or a CNN round table nothing she says counts.

    ENOUGH!!

  74. GreatGranny2B says:

    Seems like there is another possible source for Palin’s writings – which we all know are not her own.

    http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/09/08/liz-fowlers-plan/
    Liz Fowler is listed as the AUTHOR of the Max Baucus insurance document that went to K Street before it went to the White House.

    From the article:
    What neither Politico nor Bad Max himself want you to know, though, is that in the two years before she came back to the Senate to help Max craft the Max Tax plan, she worked as VP for Public Policy and External Affairs at WellPoint.
    So to the extent that Liz Fowler is the Author of this document, we might as well consider WellPoint its author as well.

  75. califpat says:

    This woman is such a liar and a divisive creature. I fear that she is up to her manipulative and corruptive antics along with her diabolical cohorts, Murdoch, Rove and Fox etc.
    The plan is to be instrumental in helping the President fail. Such, loving Christians! Sheesh!

  76. InJuneau says:

    Oh, please dear FSM, please make her STFU.

  77. Tantef says:

    oops…evidently I am in moderation. I used a bad word. Scara has that effect on me I guess.

  78. Tzi says:

    Pat Buchanan was just on MSNBC spewing out his support for Palin’s FB stupidity about death panels. I think I heard him say that the death panels would be going to the homes of people 65 and older, assess them and then kill them. Not sure about the last part as I was driving an ice pick into my forehead in the attempt to block the stupid.

  79. Tantef says:

    I would like to know how she and her ilk are getting away with using Facebook as their bullyshite pulpit. Does Fox own a piece of that platform too?

  80. klnb1019 says:

    Missing the spotlight SP? Or do your hired ghostwriters just need some extra hours? Gosh – I sure wish I knew where she was and what dastardly deeds she was up to.

    And may I just say – I’m loving this website. I’ve been lurking since the DAY, and have enjoyed every moment.

  81. debinOH says:

    I am really beginning to think that she is doing this every time president Obama has something to say. Of course, I know it is not her saying it for the reasons you listed. I thought the funniest thing about it was the fact that she has been vindicated and that the finance committee is going to remove the death panel stuff. Now that does sound like our dear sweet Sarah.

    I am with fawnskin mudpuppy I wish we could MAKE. IT. GO. AWAY. And also, too, could she please take the rest of the nitwits with her?

  82. WDYC says:

    Sad . . . sad . . . sad.
    Even more sad that some still listen to her.

  83. joie says:

    Sarah is teh crazy and teh stoopid.

  84. fawnskin mudpuppy says:

    MAKE.IT.GO.AWAY.

  85. SS says:

    Getting herself in the facebook news when the President is address the children of the country…. What a joke