Grassley Endorses "Death Panel" Rumor: "You Have Every Right To Fear"
Huffington Post / Sam Stein
12-Aug-2009 (4 comments)

One of the three Republican senators working on a bipartisan health care bill perpetuated a particularly outrageous untruth about the legislation on Wednesday.
Appearing at a town hall in his home state of Iowa, Sen. Chuck Grassley told a crowd of more than 300 that they were correct to fear that the government would "pull the plug on grandma."

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capt_ayhab

Republicans: Omaba wants to kill your grand mama!

by capt_ayhab on Wed Aug 12, 2009 02:10 PM PDT

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IRANdokht

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

by IRANdokht on Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:18 AM PDT

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Even if we succeed this time, let's not kid ourselves that this is over. The conservatives are investing a lot of money and effort to build a mass movement that is explicitly aimed at destroying a Democratic government -- and if we learned anything from the Clinton years, it's that they're not going to let up for a second as long as the Democrats are in control.

This is our new reality -- and it comes straight out of Hitler's playbook (check out Chapter 6 of Mein Kampf). Their intention is to keep the outrage junkies high by giving them a never-ending supply of new, made-up reasons to act out.

When the birth certificate fracas cools, they're standing by with "death panels." When that one's run its course, there will be something else -- over and over, every few weeks, for as long as the Dems rule.

Which means that even if we win this round, we can't stand down. We're going to be pushing back against these bullies, over and over, for the next three to seven years.

There are only two outcomes here. Either we get very good at spotting and stopping these attempts at a brownshirt takeover the minute they crop up; or they're going to get very good at public intimidation and keep ratcheting it up further toward outright violence and goon rule.

That's how it's going to be for the rest of this administration. The sooner we resign ourselves to the zero-sum nature of this fight, the sooner we can get on with getting good at it.

IRANdokht


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che khabar e

Nothing new here folks

by che khabar e on Wed Aug 12, 2009 02:39 PM PDT

Republicans have been distorting Obama's entire platform.  No matter how many times it gets refuted, someone still has to repeat the lies.


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Bavafa

Isn't Palin a grandma

by Bavafa on Wed Aug 12, 2009 02:27 PM PDT

If there is such panel, perhaps they can start with her.

Mehrdad

P.S. A prime example for "dumb as a door knob"


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