a href="http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/08/there-he-goes-again.html/"JustOneMinute:/abr /br /blockquotepSomebody call a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/facts-are-stubborn-things/"White House flack Linda Douglass at Fishy-1-1/a - a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/08/11/a-debate-we-didn-t-have-to-have.aspx"Mickey Kaus is circulating/a discouraging arguments suggesting Obama's risky health reform scheme might actually lead to "death panels", and yet again he is relying on Obama's own words:/pdiv class="blockquote" style="margin-left: 40px;"If, as a href="http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/08/08/have-you-no-decency.aspx"Harold Pollack argues/a, "rationing of life-saving or life-extending care" would not really be a priority for the "effectiveness" panels--such as the a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/08/04/AnotherlookatIMAC/"Obama-endorsed IMAC/a--then it was strongall the more stupid/strong to a href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=04amp;year=2009amp;base_name=why_american_health_care_costs_1"bring the topic up/a, no? Here's the first graf from a a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070amp;sid=aGrKbfWkzTqc"Bloomberg account/a of an early Obama health care foray back in April:/div blockquote pApril 29 (Bloomberg) -- President a href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Barack+Obamaamp;site=wnewsamp;client=wnewsamp;proxystylesheet=wnewsamp;output=xml_no_dtdamp;ie=UTF-8amp;oe=UTF-8amp;filter=pamp;getfields=wnnisamp;sort=date:D:S:d1"Barack Obama/a said his grandmother’s hip-replacement surgery during the final weeks of her life made him wonder whether expensive procedures for the terminally ill reflect a “sustainable model” for health care. /p/blockquote p class="blockquote" style="margin-left: 40px;"Gee, where could the misinformed town hall crazies have gotten the idea that Obama was thinking about saving money by denying expensive procedures toward the end of life? ... [via ema href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/08/today-eugene-robinson-argues-that-obama-aided-and-abetted-the-now-hysterical-fears-of-health-care-rationing-reform-is.html"Dish/a/em] ... span style="color:#cc0000;"1:49 P.M./span/pHa! Folks who really want to stick it to Obama and sow hysteria about "death panels" will extract this from Obama's same a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/magazine/03Obama-t.html?partner=rssamp;emc=rssamp;pagewanted=all"fateful interview/a with David Leonhardt of the Times....br /br /...br //blockquoteIt is worth reading in full. Obama is much too glib in dismissing this issue as are many Democrats who use it for disingenuous attacks on Sarah Palin. How about an honest discussion of what he means with these comments? Nah. That might not be a discussion that would move the Democrats' agenda.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5051247-1054970789174344441?l=prairiepundit.blogspot.com'//div
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