Outrageous Republican Claims about President Obama & the Health Care Initiative

However, their claims keep getting more and more absurd.  First Obama was a Muslim terrorist, then we learned that he was not actually born in Hawaii but in Kenya, and now the President is establishing “death panels” all across the country that will decide who lives and who dies.  I actually heard that he is going to replace the Secret Service with the Black Panthers… just feels safer that way.  Nah, I made that up.  Making the claim however, may even get me invited to dinner at Sarah Palin’s house as an honorary guest.  Here are a few outrageous quotes from the increasingly desperate and kooky right wingers.  

“I said yesterday on Fox and Friends that I think the president is a racist. I don’t know if he hates white people, but there is something going on with the president. Well, I stand by that, and I deem him a racist really based on his own standard of racism, the standard of the left. Now, I don’t know what, I am not sure how I am supposed to judge people, how I am supposed to be able to say I have these things that just don’t fit, so what do I do with them, so I have to use the community standard.” - Glen Beck

A man who is half black and half white is a racist?  What else could one expect to hear from Glen Beck?  Now I understand why he dropped out of college after taking a single theology class.  Glen Beck is also Mormon, and Mormons believe among other things, that people of color consort with the devil and that God curses sinners with dark skin.  Why is anyone paying attention to Glen Beck anyway?  I mean for crying out loud, he needs magic underwear (Mormon garments) to remind him of the covenant he made with God, help him resist temptation, fend off evil influences, and stand firmly for what is righteous.  I would not allow Glen Beck to analyze urine samples let alone current events.  

“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.” - Sarah Palin

Where to start with Sarah Palin?  She is essentially saying that Joseph Mengele type death panels will be established in the United States, but instead of the Jews, elderly Americans and babies will be sent to the crematoriums.  This claim is preposterous, unbelievable and I am wondering if it’s she, or her baby who was born with Down Syndrome?  There is hope though; today I discovered that Sarah Palin has only 722,036 supporters on Facebook, obviously she is not as revered by the general population as the GOP would have us believe.  President Obama on the other hand has 6,555,493.  Even Madonna has more supporters than Sarah Palin, clocking in at 1,102,776 fans.  I think she should have been the governor of Alaska and John McCain would have probably gotten more votes, had he picked Madonna as his running mate.  At least she is more qualified than Sarah Palin. 

Lou Dobbs speaking to David from Freeport, N.Y., who said that President Obama is "rushing all these programs through by whatever means, knowing he will soon be exposed as a fake, a fraud, a . . . Kenyan.”.  To which Lou Dobbs replied; "Certainly your view can't be discounted." - Lou Dobs

And CNN hasn’t fired him because?  I would publically ridicule and embarrass every journalist, commentator, and politician who repeats the claim of the “Birthers” that President Obama is in office illegally because he is actually a Kenyan national.  I would force them to wear the letter B on their chest much like Hester Prynne in Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter,” which would serve to identify each one as a “Birther” and an idiot.  If you cannot accept the evidence when it is waved in front of your face in the form of a birth certificate, you should be publicly humiliated and simply ostracized.

“When you -- as the president of the United States -- have to tell the country that you are not in favor of death panels and that you’re not going to pull the switch on grandma, you’ve lost control.”- Rush Limbaugh

President Obama actually laughed Sarah Palin’s comment off by saying "I guess this arose out of a provision in one of the House bills that allowed Medicare to reimburse people for consultations about end-of-life care, setting up living wills.  Somehow it's gotten spun into this idea of death panels. Um, I am not in favor of that. I want to clear the air."  The President was actually making a joke, not trying to retain control of the country.  

“If the question is, 'Who is more like the Nazis?' and the choices are Obama/Pelosi or the people showing up at these town hall meetings who want to protect their individual liberty, that's not even a close call. And no, I'm not going to apologize for it. They started this." - Rush Limbaugh

Having arrived to these last two quotes I just realized that perhaps we should allow the desperate Republican leadership, Beck, Palin and Limbaugh, to say anything they want.  Together they’ll ensure that a Republican doesn’t win the White House for decades to come.