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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Justin C who wrote (70412)	8/12/2009 8:15:03 AM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224774

The answer to this question is simple. He wants to surpass FDR's flood of legislation. It is all a game to him. Like Kerry collecting medals any way he could. He knows any bill that has a public option can be used to destroy the system as it is and create the need for dependency on the government for even simple healthcare. I just don't get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill, in three weeks?

To: Justin C who wrote (70412)	8/12/2009 8:54:10 AM
From: tbancroft	Respond to of 224774

Interesting read, thanks for the link. It is clear that there is a left-wing and a right-wing side to libertarians, brought out in the (left-wing libertarian) author's thoughts regarding (right-wing libertarian) Sarah Palin's remarks about Obamacare. This is in fact what Sarah Palin hit on in her shocking image of a "death panel" under Obamacare that would make irrevocable decisions about the disabled and elderly. When I first saw that phrase, headlined on the Drudge Report, I burst out laughing. It seemed so over the top! But on reflection, I realized that Palin's shrewdly timed metaphor spoke directly to the electorate's unease with the prospect of shadowy, unelected government figures controlling our lives. A death panel not only has the power of life and death but is itself a symptom of a Kafkaesque brave new world where authority has become remote, arbitrary and spectral. And as in the Spanish Inquisition, dissidence is heresy, persecuted and punished.