In other words, these people have gone full-blown lunatic on us

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http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/08/10/it-doesnt-take-stephen-hawking-to-figure-this-one-out/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog

It doesn’t take Stephen Hawking to figure this one out

11:43 am August 10, 2009, by Jay

The conservative opinion magazine Human Events was reputedly Ronald Reagan’s favorite read, and to this day fancies itself the house organ for the hard-right intelligentsia. Among those published regularly in its pages are such luminaries as Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter.

In my email this morning is a message from Human Events regarding the health-reform debate, warning of “government-forced extermination” of unborn children, grandmothers and grandfathers:

Grandmas and Unborn Babies Face Extermination by Obama’s “Health” Care Plan

Investors Business Daily has just exposed the Achilles’ heel of Obamacare, that hostile, socialist government takeover of your hospital, doctors, children, and grandparents. In an editorial entitled, “How House Bill Runs Over Grandma,” the editors report how President Obama was personally confronted by a North Carolina woman asking if “everyone that’s Medicare age will be visited and told they have to decide how they wish to die.”

In response Obama joked that he hadn’t yet hired enough bureaucrats to conduct such an operation, yet he could not deny the New York Post’s discovery the House bill “compels seniors to submit to a counseling session every five years (and more often if they become sick or go into a nursing home) about alternatives for end-of-life care” (pages 425-430). In other words, your grandmother will be told, when insufficient resources are rationed to young people, that her duty to die begins with mandatory “end-of-life counseling,” or as Obama explained, “encourage the use of living wills” that terminate otherwise salvageable lives prematurely through signed “do not resuscitate” (DNR) legal releases.”

In other words, these people have gone full-blown lunatic on us. Curious, I also looked up the Investors Business Daily editorial cited by Human Events. Published a week ago Friday, it is chock full of lies, distortions and other foolishness, such as the claim that the House bill would compel senior citizens to undergo mandatory euthanasia counseling every five years.

[SeattleGirl]

1. They're like Chicken Little on steroids.

:eyes:

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2. Not lunatic. Very deliberate, malicious, pathological liars.

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3. And Investors Business Daily, Ezra Klein's editorial is the one claiming Stephen Hawking would be

dead if he lived in the UK and had NHS taking care of him!!

“People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.”

[charlie]

5. Whoa, hey

Ezra Klein is a good guy, it wasn't him. He writes for WaPo, not IBD.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. You're right. I pulled the quote from Wonkette and it has 'IBD, Atlanta J-C, Ezra Klein' at the end.

[charlie]

7. Cool

I didn't want you to get the wrong impression of the guy. Klein was a long-time blogger and worked for Prospect before he got scooped up by the Post. He really is quite good and I hope he can maintain his integrity at a beltway noise machine.

[CanonRay]

4. Planned lies, just like Goebbels

He was the master, and the Rethugs have learned well.