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Jaw Dropping Stupid? Or Just Pretending?

By Big Tent Democrat

The Last Reasonable Conservative, James Joyner, was unreasonable yesterday:

The business about “death boards” is over-the-top nonsense and is indeed being presented in a dishonest, unhelpful manner. But nobody — not even Sarah Palin — is arguing that the Democrats actually put a measure into writing that requires offing granny when she gets too sick to be worth the cost of healing her.

From a NYTimes story on the Arlen Specter town hall yesterday:

Many seemed concerned about issues that are either not in the health care legislation or are peripheral to the debate in Washington — abortion, euthanasia, coverage of immigrants, privacy. “It says plainly right there they want to limit the type of care elderly can get,” said Laurel Tobias, an office manager from Lebanon, referring to a bill in the House. “They are talking about killing people.”

(Emphasis supplied.) Somebody is arguing it, Mr. Joyner.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).