"Death Panels" and Sarah Palin

The large, complex, and mysterious healthcare bill absolutely HAD to get passed before the August recess, according to the President and the congressional leaders. And then something wonderful happened - Democracy. Aparently the American People cared about this issue much more than they cared about the bailouts, or the stimuli, or Medicare Prescription Drugs, or NCLB. All those uninspired, lathargic Americans started showing up in droves to object and voice their distrust of the government taking over healthcare.

They realized that don't want nationalized, socialized, "single payer" (whatever the label-of-choice is today) healtcare. I have plenty of uninsured friends and relatives, and yes, they all want healthcare. They just don't want it to look like the thier last trip to the DMV or the Social Security office. Since there aren't any real details of the plan that even our master orator of a president can describe in any kind of detail, they assume that's what they're going to get. And can you blame them?

Everything the government does is 3x more difficult and less efficient than it needs to be. Our president even admitted as much in one of his off-teleprompter moments.

The most telling sign that the big-government liberals are losing this battle is that they refuse, for the most part, to acknowledge that the uprising of protest at town hall meetings around the country are made up of real people with real concerns. They dismiss it as Rush Limbaugh clones or Sarah Palin kool-aid drinkers. They don't actually engage in real debate. I'm no dittohead, in fact I really don't like Rush's tactics. Buy I don't think anyone in the media today that strike a chord in the conservative base than Rush does. He doesn't dictate to his listeners what to think, he reflects it. And he knows how to get them engaged in the process. He reminds them of what they truly believe. Rush didn't invent or program their objections, but he probably inspired them.

As for Palin, she has made a magnificent case on her facebook page that is worth reading. It's even footnoted. Did she write it herself? Probobaly not. But regardless of who wrote it, I've yet to see any from the brilliant Obama cabinet that is even close to this level of detailed and specifocity. It's all flowery rhetoric. Sarah Palin, in some ways, is a pariah, and easy target to the left and a political leper to the right. But she really doesn't seem to care. I, for one, am glad she's on our side.