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Posted on 11/17/2011 7:56:15 PM PST by not2worry
Hey, marty60...death panel doesn’t equate to advance directives. ADs are executed by the individual, not a government body. Git you some learnin’, son.
This is the problem. Newt is a BIG FAT part of it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2809166/posts
My husband has one. He chooses not to be hooked to machines if catastrophic injuries result in irreparable brain damage and that is the only way to maintain his life. He does not want to live tethered to machines.
His choice, by his hand, so that I won't have to agonize if, Heaven forbid, the time came.
Shocking...I know, to allow a patient to decline treatment.
And you don’t seem to know what “cronyism” is; but it sounds bad so just throw it around wildly, why don’t you?
Everything was above-the-table. His firm consulted. Big Whoop. Since when is consulting “cronyism?”
Was Cain a crony for trying to get taxpayer favors for the restaurant industry? Was he bleeding the taxpayers by trying to get subsidies for said clients?
Give it a rest. Nothing illegal or improper was done. This is good old-fashioned Capitalism, period. No business in America REFUSES to accept business from companies who get government money. How ridiculous and incoherent your stretching has become!
Cain was an actual LOBBYIST trying to get favors from the Federal Government/taxpayer. Why aren’t you accusing him of “cronyism?”
You can only bypass family if the patient wants to bypass family. The savings come from not keeping people who are brain dead in the ICU for days until family is contacted or 2 doctors agree that recovery chances are nil. That happens frequently when people are “found down” in the streets with significant head trauma. Many people readily ask for them. My family members insisted on advanced directives because of the concern about prolonged suffering. They have been part of hospital admission processes for decades.
Death panels are when a group of people decide that because statistics indicate treatment for a condition results in a small chance of recovery, say 25%, that the treatment will not be offered to the patient.
No one is saying that anything illegal was done. The simple fact is that many of the businesses and causes Newt worked for demonstrate how unprincipled he is ... not that comes as any great shock.
Newt was though, able to balance a budget and force a kicking and screaming Clinton to sign Welfare reform.
But, keep letting the Wash Post form your opinion for you like they hope.
Bachmann...no good
Perry...no good
Cain...no good
Gingrich...no good
Who’s next to take the lead, get smeared and move out of Obama’s path to re-election?
Some of our own side’s response to Newt engaging in actual commerce is the reason I am cynical of all sides in today’s world. Maybe the pundits who say that the Tea Party and OWS are sympatico are right. I’m starting to believe that both are against capitalism and free markets. I’m all for small government and free markets, even for myself. But this is a minority opinion. The majority is all for Big Government. They are just arguing over what they want Big Government to do for themselves and what to do against the other guys.
His marriages are NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS. The only oath I care about is the one to defend the Constitution. Although as far as known 0bama keeps his marriage vows, he breaks his constitutional vow hourly. That’s what matters.
http://www1.salon.com/news/1998/08/28news.html
lots there
For one thing, Gingrich pioneered a denial of adultery that some observers would later christen
“the Newt Defense”: Oral sex doesn’t count. In a revealing psychological portrait of the “inner”
Gingrich that appeared in Vanity Fair (September 1995), Gail Sheehy uncovered a woman, Anne Manning,
who had an affair in Washington in 1977 with a married Gingrich.
“We had oral sex,” Manning revealed. “He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say,
‘I never slept with her.’” She added that Gingrich threatened her: “If you ever tell anybody about this,
I’ll say you’re lying.”
What an ironic thing to say. You're using a hit piece from a leftist rag to smear Gingrich. Tell me something, is their any doubt in your mind that the NYT will endorse Obama in 2012?
I agree. You'd make a great candidate.
Free Republic appears to be becoming a sanctuary site for liberals and fodder provider for WaPo, LA Times, and the alphabet news media.
Great job people.
Finally, I bet if Palin were running, she'd get FReeper ripped too.
All GOP candidates would be better than the idiot in the wh
What on earth does having advance directives have to do with death panels.
Everyone SHOULD have an advance directive. If you don’t you should.
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