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Krauthammer Tells Palin to "Leave the Room"
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2009/08/krauthammer-tells-palin-to-leave-room.html ^ | August 21, 2009 | Joseph Russo

Posted on 08/21/2009 8:34:54 AM PDT by DB9

A bizarre article from Charles Krauthammer in today's Washington Post.

In the second sentence he trashes Palin:

"We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's a remarkable political talent. But there are no "death panels" in the Democratic health-care bills, and to say that there are is to debase the debate."

And by the third paragraph he is explaining that Obamacare will basically create a "death panel":

"We also have to tell the defenders of the notorious Section 1233 of H.R. 3200 that it is not quite as benign as they pretend. To offer government reimbursement to any doctor who gives end-of-life counseling -- whether or not the patient asked for it -- is to create an incentive for such a chat.

What do you think such a chat would be like? Do you think the doctor will go on and on about the fantastic new million-dollar high-tech gizmo that can prolong the patient's otherwise hopeless condition for another six months? Or do you think he's going to talk about -- as the bill specifically spells out -- hospice care and palliative care and other ways of letting go of life?"

I may be repeating myself on this, but Governor Palin never said that a specifically named "Death Panel" existed in Obamacare. She clearly made the point that such a government entity would be the natural result of a government run, rationed health care system. In fact, "Death Panels" appeared in quotations in her very first Facebook note on the subject, signifying that it was being used as a metaphor.

The Senate even went do far as to take out any language that could be remotely connected to a "death panel."

Just last night, on Special Report, Krauthammer basically repeated Palin's concerns over a federal government loan to a Brazilian state run oil company. However, Krauthammer never gave credit to Palin for pointing these concerns out.

I just don't understand the behavior of these so-called "intellectuals."

The Conservative Comeback has more here.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: keepowt; krauthammer; obamacare; obamathugs; palin; pds
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1 posted on 08/21/2009 8:34:54 AM PDT by DB9
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To: DB9

Krauthammer needs to get outside the Beltway more often. But, then again, he was one of the conservatives that Obama feted early on.


2 posted on 08/21/2009 8:36:24 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: DB9

Charles Krauthammer has great insight and poor application of that insight.


3 posted on 08/21/2009 8:36:31 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Socialism is not a bad word. It is a bad concept.)
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To: DB9
oh, goodness, we wouldn't want to "debase the debate" now, would we?

wait a minute, what "debate?"

4 posted on 08/21/2009 8:36:33 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (this slope is getting slippereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...)
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To: DB9

Beltwayitis has consumed Krauthammer’s brain.


5 posted on 08/21/2009 8:37:24 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("It (Gov't) can't make you happier, healthier, wealthier, and wise" - Sarah Palin 07/26)
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To: DB9

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Krauthammer? Right now, Sarah Palin is the only man in the GOP - ok, there are one or two others - but Sarah is the one getting things done.


6 posted on 08/21/2009 8:38:00 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Caution: Angry crowds in the mirror are LARGER than they appear.)
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To: DB9

Maybe Krauthammer should check on how he would fare under Obamacare. Not long I’m sure...


7 posted on 08/21/2009 8:38:05 AM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. God help us.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Yep


8 posted on 08/21/2009 8:38:30 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: DB9
” But there are no “death panels” in the Democratic health-care bills, and to say that there are is to debase the debate.” “

Yes there are. Read the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal today.
A revealing commentary by a lefty who is now scared of Obama.

9 posted on 08/21/2009 8:38:45 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Just say no to Soylent Green health care)
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To: DB9

Chuck just doesn’t like the fact that she isn’t an eastern elite with the “right” educational credentials. She is also not a predictable, beltway professional politician which is to Sarah Palin’s inestimable credit:


10 posted on 08/21/2009 8:38:52 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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Hey Chuck, Sarah will leave the room if you "get a grip."

11 posted on 08/21/2009 8:38:55 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support Sarah. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/sarahpalin?ref=nf)
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To: DB9

Earth to Mr. Krauthammer.

The “death panels” were found in the bill. Even liberal newspapers have reported on them and said the end of life counseling provisions were “disturbing”.

We’re now seeing with the VA questionaire exactly the type of pressure that would be put on people. Questions geard toward making people think their life isn’t worth living.

The term “death panel” may have seemed over the top to some, but it cut to the heart of the matter. The governemnt was going to make life and death decisions for citizens (or as Obama put it “be partners with God in life and death.”


12 posted on 08/21/2009 8:39:53 AM PDT by Brookhaven (http://theconservativehand.blogspot.com/)
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To: DB9

Oh my......we wouldn’t want to have an opinion that doesn’t come from the Elitist in D.C. now would we.
He is suffering from a catastropic illness...so maybe he is worried about his own healthcare, and is in denial.


13 posted on 08/21/2009 8:40:37 AM PDT by Marty62 (former Marty60)
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To: NonValueAdded

OK, folks, we need to put this misdirection to a quick death.

The reference to DEATH PANELS

IS NOT

in reference to “end of life counseling”.

It is referring to the necessary rationing boards under the single payer system.

The reason the left is redirecting this is that they know that a rationing board is, indeed, a DEATH PANEL,

and they don’t want to fight a losing argument.


14 posted on 08/21/2009 8:40:49 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: DB9
I have said for years that Krauthammer is an @sshole, and he vindicates me repeatedly with comments like this.

What these inside-the-Beltway jack@ssses like him really resent is that someone like Sarah Palin is a far more effective voice for rank-and-file conservative Americans than they will ever be, and they resent the hell out of it.

Palin did far more to push the Obamacare monstrosity to the brink of failure than anyone else in politics or in the "conservative" media -- and she isn't even an elected official anymore!

15 posted on 08/21/2009 8:41:58 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
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To: DB9
Krauthammer suffers from PDS.
16 posted on 08/21/2009 8:42:04 AM PDT by anita
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To: DB9
Sorry fellow freepers, it made good political theater and got the liberals like O worked up, but it is nonsense. Neil Cavuto said the same thing. Nothing proposed would stop you from going to a doctor on your own money, outside of the taxpayers expense.

If too many things like this get thrown around it can backfire like McCain's 'Lipstick on a Pig' comment did.

17 posted on 08/21/2009 8:42:05 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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To: DB9

When a panel of people makes a decision whether you get treatment or not, then it becomes a ‘death panel’.


18 posted on 08/21/2009 8:42:48 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: DB9

Uh...uh...uh...do I detect a hint of jealousy among the conservative elite pundits? Poor guys...when Sarah Palin walks into the room, no one cares about anyone else sitting at the table.


19 posted on 08/21/2009 8:43:23 AM PDT by TNdandelion (I'd rather have FedEx run my healthcare than USPS.)
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To: dirtboy

That’s one point in her favor. The neocon shrink Krauthammer doesn’t like her. Now....if Billy Kristol would do the same, she have two points in her favor.


20 posted on 08/21/2009 8:43:28 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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