As we wait for the impending Supreme Court decision on Obamacare, I reiterate what I wrote in my first post on this topic nearly three years ago,” wrote Palin in a Facebook post titled ‘Death Panel’ Three Years Later.” “I stand by everything I wrote in that warning to my fellow Americans because what was true then is true now, and it will remain true as we hear what the Supreme Court has to say.

Sarah Palin Returns To ‘Death Panel’ Criticism Ahead Of Supreme Court Ruling On Health Care

I intentionally didn’t say anything about this because it was Sarah Palin, but it is just stupidity that won’t go away.

The “panel” now being called a “rationing board” is really nothing more than people who will be in charge of providing financial information to those who are reaching the end of life.

What is beyond me is why we are so socially adverse to the old dying, not that I am advocating for killing off old people, just acknowledged the fact that people don’t live forever and old people die if we want them to or not.

I also don’t see why giving them financial information on their end of life care is something that is horrible. Giving people the ability to die on their own terms should never be thought of as a bad thing. Should the dying not have peace, the ability to know they aren’t thrusting their families in to massive debt, and the ability to decided enough is enough? It is their lives after all.

But that is just it; there really isn’t anything monstrous hiding in the paragraphs of the ACA. It is a make believe boogyman coming after for poor little old granny.

The more I look at all this nonsensical and often hypocritical bullshit that flows out of the right wing the more I think that there is an ulterior motive to all this rhetoric.

It seems to me that they are so offended by this idea, the idea that giving them financial information may mean the elderly chose to die earlier, affects their bottom line and reduces their abilities to suck as much money out of them and their families as they can.

I think that is what this is really about. Profit on the backs of the elderly and their families.

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omg, FINALLY! NOW I understand why the GOP is so hostile to broccoli!!!!

Just because:

Newt Gingrich was for the individual mandate before he was against it. Does anyone remember the 1990s when Clinton was President? The Republicans were against what they called “Hillarycare” and came up with the idea of everyone buying health insurance (and now they’re against “Obamacare,” which is basically the Republican plan from the ‘90s). Newt was one of many Republicans who argued for the individual mandate. Now he says people should be able to “opt out” of the mandate. Which contradicts the whole fucking idea of a mandate. It makes no sense. Everyone must buy broccoli, except the people who opt out.

Mitt Romney was also for the individual mandate before he was against it. The state of Massachusetts has a mandate, which Romney signed into law. Look at the first two letters of “mandate” (MA). If he’s the Republican candidate it will be very hard for him to explain why every citizen of Massachusetts must buy broccoli, but nobody else should.

Ron Paul is against the mandate because he’s an insane gray-skin-alien homunculus simulacrum from another galaxy. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Who knows WTF he’s thinking? You do have to give him props for looking approximately human. And when he talks, he seems to use words and grammar in the way a normal human would (but with a squeaky alien voice). He resembles that extraterrestrial from the “X Files” who kills innocent humans who don’t own broccoli. Maybe that’s why nobody takes him seriously.

Rick Santorum owns a very very special version of the Bible that says Jesus believed only rich people should have healthcare. Jesus didn’t heal the sick or comfort the poor, because that would be socialist. Jesus was sent to bless the one percenters, who will pass through the eye of the needle as easily as a camel does. And if we allow the government to “mandate” (which Santorum opposes because man dates are gay), next we’ll have mandogdates. It’s a slippery slope. A frothy mixture that leads to a slippery slope in your sweet delicious ass. Jesus hates broccoli because it’s gay. Plus, broccoli is socialist. Ipse dixit. QED.

And that’s it. I hope this explanation of mandates was helpful to you. (DailyKos)

(via Why Five House Dems Voted To Repeal The Affordable Care Act | TPMDC)

Rep. Larry Kissell (D-NC)

Kissell, a second-term congressman, voted against the Republican repeal legislation last year. But he has been careful not to align himself with Obama, refusing to endorse his reelection bid. Kissell has broken with his party on multiple occasions, including on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt.

Kissell narrowly won reelection in 2010 and redistricting has made his district more conservative. He faces the winner of an upcoming Republican run-off election between Richard Hudson, a former congressional staffer, and Scott Keadle, a state county commissioner.

Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-NC)

McIntyre, a Blue Dog who has represented rural North Carolina since 1997, joined Republicans last year to vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. How conservative is his district? Here’s a hint: He has refused to endorse President Obama for reelection.

McIntyre’s opponent in November, state Sen. David Rouzer, is seeking to tie him to his party leaders. “He’s walked in lock step with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi,” Rouzer told Roll Call in May.

Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR)

Ross, a congressman since 2001 who serves as co-chair of the increasingly extinct Blue Dog Caucus, was an early Democratic opponent of the law and has consistently positioned himself it. He joined Republicans to vote to repeal it last year.

Ross has sought to make himself amenable to his mostly conservative constituents by aligning against Obama and Democrats on numerous issues.

He’s retiring at the end of his term.

Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK)

Boren, a Blue Dog who has served Oklahoma since 2005, last year voted with Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He has gone to great lengths to distinguish himself from Democrats, including by cosponsoring anti-abortion legislation and voting for a hard-right measure calling for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

But Newt, why you mad tho ?

We’ve all heard Newt Gingrich wax lyrical about the travesty that ObamaCare is.

What you may not have known is that just a few short years ago, good ol’ Newt was pushing something just like it, in part. There were portions of the bill which he supported, mostly because it would net him millions of dollars from big name companies like Microsoft and Novo.

So there you have it folks, Newt’s a flip-flopper too. Man, these people should buy stock in Old Navy.