Yesterday GOP chairman Michael Steele and GOP Senator Chuck Grassley both endorsed Republican Sarah Palin's idiotic and outright false claim that President Obama wants to setup "death panels."
Also, Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry last night joined the Republican conspiracy chorus line that President Obama was not born in America.
These are Republican Party members. They are elected officials, or quitters in the case of Palin; nonetheless, these are supposedly not the winger-fringe. This is how they want to do politics in America: Our president is a foreign-born enemy of the state and wants to setup death squads to kill off undesirables. This is mainstream Republican thinking. What honest debate can Lisa possibly be talking about?
*Update:
Republican Senator Tom Coburn signs onto Palin's "death panel" claim. He calls it a plan Democrats won't speak about.
As you'll remember, Coburn was caught red handed in the middle of Republican Senator John Ensign's extramarital affair by urging Ensign to pay off his mistress to ensure her silence. Senator Coburn is also a known birther, aka believing President Obama is a foreign enemy that must be stopped. These are the people we are supposed to collaborate with to come up with a bipartisan approach to health care reform. They are extremely Serious and Patriotic Americans. They should be taken just as seriously as anyone else. Any debate about the future of this country should first begin with the basis that President Obama is not a citizen who also wants to setup "death panels" to kill your grandma. From there, all serious debates can begin.
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