Shannyn Moore - Palin's Pavlovian Response to House Health Care Passage

[Blue_In_AK]

This is a good rant, worth reading to the end.

http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/palin%e2%80%99s-pavlovian-response-to-house-health-care-passage/

I spent a lot of time in a small Alaskan church. I’m glad I did. It helps me interpret Palin’s evangelical dog whistles.

The title: “The Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday’s Coming.”

Seems harmless to a casual reader, but to the evangelicals? Instant salivation. During sermons about the crucifixion, a typical preacher line goes, “Friday was a dark, dark day, but Sunday’s coming.” Answered with many “Amens.” So, Nancy Pelosi just killed Jesus, and Sarah is going to resurrect him?

Is she equating the health care bill to the crucifixion, and the conservative comeback as the resurrection? Really? Go on, Sister Sarah, tell us how how the GOP is going to forgive us for all our sins and give us eternal life. Anyone with half a whit of faith would call you on your blasphemy.

“We’ve got to hold on to hope, and we’ve got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country. “

UNRECOGNIZABLE? From what? A country that lies its way into wars? A country that tortures? A country that transports prisoners to other countries to torture? A country that wiretaps its own citizens? A country that neglects its veterans; poor and sick? A country that sides with corporations over its people? A country that looks away from evidence of environmental decay?

Well, I’m fine with becoming something other than the country you recognize.

”The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business.”

The reason for the bailouts in the first place, Sarah, is because decades of Republican deregulation left no one minding the store. Former President Bush, by the way, pushed through the first bailout. What about the same government that employs Blackwater XE over our military? What about our justice system being for sale to the highest bidding private prisons? All your honking about privatizing goods and services is a little late.

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http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/palin%e2%80%99s-pavlovian-response-to-house-health-care-passage/


Also see The Immoral Minority's dissection of Palin's Facebook entry here: http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/

[rurallib]

1. As Bill Moyers has said "The fringe has become mainstream."

What amazes me is that someone as delusional as Palin (or Bachmann or Coulter etc.) could have so many followers thinking that these people are what they want the country to be like.

[WeDidIt]

2. Shannyn Moore demonstrated restraint

:evilgrin:

[malaise]

3. Must read

K & R