The Ferret Vindicates the Arctic Fox
Not that she needed the likes of Robert B. Reich, but the victory is still a sweet one. You will recall that a couple of months ago Sarah Palin held forth on a provision of the so-called Obamacare bill that she said would operate as the functional equivalent of a “Death Panel.” The Drive-By media and the statist Left went completely ballistic and called her every name in the urban dictionary of vulgarity.
Amidst their frenzied shrieking that the “death panels” were a myth, the Congressional committees working on the bill quietly removed section 1288 from the bill because it mandated precisely what Mrs. Palin said it would. And then (if I may bastardize Oliver Goldsmith) a wonder came to light that proves the rogues they lied; Mrs. Palin recovered of the bite - the seniors were the ones who died.
In a September 2007 speech given at UC Berkeley, the diminutive, ferret-like Mr. Reich committed what has to be the mother of all Kinsleyan gaffes when he held forth on the health care system of this country and what should be done to achieve longed-for parity in a system that liberals persist in arguing isn’t nearly as perfect as that found, say, in Great Britain.
Here is the transcript of the damning words which I have no doubt he will dismiss as either parody or satire in the unlikely event some intrepid soul in the Drive-By media who still clings to the notion of old-fashioned journalism has the gonads to question him about it.
I’ll actually give you a speech made up entirely, almost on the spur of the moment, of what a candidate for president would say if that candidate did not care about becoming president. In other words, this is what the truth is and a candidate will never say, but what a candidate should say if we were in the kind of democracy where citizens were honored in terms of their practice of citizenship and they were educated in terms of what the issues were and they could separate myth from reality in terms of what candidates would tell them:
“Thank you so much for coming this afternoon. I’m so glad to see you and I would like to be president. Let me tell you a few things on health care. Look, we have the only health care system in the world that is designed to avoid sick people. And that’s true and what I’m going to do is that I am going try to reorganize it to be more amenable to treating sick people but that means you, particularly you young people, particularly you young healthy people…you’re going to have to pay more. [applause]
“Thank you. And by the way, we’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive…so we’re going to let you die.” [applause]
“Also I’m going to use the bargaining leverage of the federal government in terms of Medicare, Medicaid—we already have a lot of bargaining leverage—to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs. What that means, less innovation and that means less new products and less new drugs on the market which means you are probably not going to live much longer than your parents. Thank you.” [sustained applause]
Yes, that’s right…applause. These privileged, spoiled and apparently mentally retarded little liberal brats (who apparently all attended the Alan Grayson Academy of Psychological Projection) actually applauded the dirty totalitarian secret that this man - with a very appropriate last name, by the way - was divulging.
If Sarah Palin made a mistake using the term “Death Panels” it was on the order of calling certain totalitarians Nazis instead of National Socialists.
Who would ever have guessed that a diminutive ferret would have vindicated the Arctic Fox?
Reich and all the Obamasms are evil. Why have the churches failed us? Where are the churches on this evil? Especially, where is the Catholic Church? Are they going to hide just like they did in Nazi Germany?
Sarah P, 2012, I hope we last that long.
They hid very well in Nazi Germany - mostly in concentration camps. Catholics were just as despised as the Jews and dispatched accordingly. They also hid in the catacombs under the streets of ancient Rome when the likes of Domitian and Nero used them as human torches to illuminate night-time evening parties.
You would do well to observe that the Catholic Church has no standing armies and, in a world governed by the aggressive use of force, therefore wasn’t much of a match for the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe or the Kriegsmarine - much less the Waffen SS.
Just ask St. Edith Stein or St. Maximilian Kolbe.
The Liberal attack on leading Conservatives is simple. Lie early and often until the uninformed public believes your lies are the truth. Goebbels would be proud of them.
True. But the Church does have pulpits. And, a ton of money to pay for media…
Not nearly as much money as you think. But the point is taken. Nevertheless, the bishops are making their voices heard on behalf of a church that officially opposes abortion, infanticide and euthanasia.
The Audacity of Hypocrisy.
SOME church leaders in SOME churches are speaking out (in some churches more than others). Unfortunately, a significant percentage–across the denominational board–have succumbed to the prevailing cultural rot.
Well said, Colonel, in referencing St. Edith Stein and St. Maximilian Kolbe. There are others who have withstood the PC tide, many of whom are unnamed and unknown. But thank God for them. Whenever and wherever you come across them, take heart and strength from their spiritual courage.
Nice pic…
Yes, I know Catholics were targeted by the Nazi’s. But the point is, the Church here and now in the US should be standing up more, speaking out more forcefully. I am not Catholic; my timid politically correct Methodist church is an embarrasment. But while there is still freedom of speech, churches should be leading the charge against the health care take over. The Catholic church could have the loudest voice, since they own 20% of American health care facilities. The threat of closing them down rather than participating in euthanasia or abortion would get some attention.
Manly on October 15, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I’ve mentioned before that my in-laws are Polish Catholics who were forced to work on a Nazi-run farm producing food for their captors. When the commandant decided that their 18 month old son was a hinderance because he was still breast feeding, he had the camp doctor (a Polish collaborator) inject the baby with something that my MIL said smelled like kerosene. They were forced to watch him vomit black tar-like substance and die. Yeah, Winston’s Mom, the Catholics had it real easy.
And therein lies the catch, I think… I have to give him that much.
*eats*
Today, Skyfox…
We’re not to the point of Nazi Germany, yet…The Catholic Church, The Methodists, The Baptists and any other religious organization that runs/funds health care facilites in America should be VOCALLY expressing their oppossition to many parts of obamacare…
Why do I hear/see nothing?
If the Catholic Church in the USA would simply keep to what Christ told his Apostles and to the Catechism, there is now way Obama or any culture-of-death candidate could win the POTUS.
Roe vs. Wade would already be overturned.
And we would not be destroying the healthcare system we have with a new system that will in effect kill people off sooner, destroy our budget and currency, and create incalcuable suffering on the majority of the American people.