New GOP lie: Obamacare will endanger women with breast cancer

Just amazing.

Huckabee insists Obama would have killed Kennedy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/huckabee-doubles-down-on_n_272908.html

"In fact, listen to what I said. It was actually a tribute to Senator Kennedy and an observation that he did what Americans would want to do: follow the best health care advice that they can find. And we don't want the government telling us to go home and take a pain pill and die. When diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at age 77, Senator Kennedy didn't do as President Obama suggested and take a pain pill and ride it home. He did what most of us would do or want to do. He went to the very best medical facilities in the world, had surgery, and sought to live as long and as strong as possible."

OMG Obama wants to slice off your peepee!

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/aug/27/rush-limbaugh/limbaugh-circumcision-obama-cdc/


Hearkening back to a century of redneck fears that black men might be able to, ya know, outperform them with their "wimminfolk"-- now Obama's trying to extend his advantage!


Funny how the redneck wingnuts haven't punched the "wimminfolk" button yet....

new lie: Obama won't allow treatment for anyone over 70

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/politics-in-the-doctors-o_n_270513.html

This from an Arizona doctor.

OMG! Obama will use voter cards to deny Republicans health care!

http://washingtonindependent.com/56820/rnc-mail-suggests-republicans-could-be-discriminated-against-lose-their-health-care

Source: the RNC.

United Health Care has the same end-of-life provisions their GOP defenders are condemning

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/private-insurer-also-prov_n_270558.html

OMG Obama wants to kill our troops!

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/fox-furthers-death-panel-hysteria-death-book


Fox is now telling people that Obama has a "death book" for veterans. Check the link for the debunking...

Grassley admits he lied about death panels

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/23/grassley-reverses-course_n_266432.html

OMG! Obama will let you go blind!

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/17/cnn-truth-squad-no-eye-care-until-youre-blind-in-one-eye/#more-64934

Latest GOP claim -- patients with macular degeneration must go blind in one eye before getting help with the second eye, because that disease disproportionately affects white people, and Obama hates white people, right?

Again, it's total bullcrap. As the link indicates, this went from an old report about a British case, to a completely uninformed opinion piece, until it magically became "fact" in the wingnut world.

more Palin lunacy on health reform

Palin claims the president wants to enact a rationing system that would "refuse to allocate medical resources to the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled who have less economic potential." Palin said she suspects the president favors such a system because he "has not yet stated any opposition" to that essay, but she offers no documentation that such a plan is actually included in the legislation being crafted in the House or Senate....Palin goes on to accuse the president of supporting a single-payer system...The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee concludes her Facebook post by attacking the cost of health care reform, which she said will only deepen the country's debt and force the president to raise taxes.

Rudy Giuliani jumps on the "death panel" bandwagon

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/13/giuliani-death-panels/

Tom Coburn jumps on the "pull the plug on grandma" bandwagon

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/13/coburn-backs-death-panel_n_258946.html

Right out of Mein Kampf -- keep repeating a lie over and over, and maybe it will stick.

Palin was for "death panels" before she was against them...

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/13/palin-deathpanel-flipflop/

new GOP lie: "death counselors"

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/12/gop-congressman-there-are-death-counselors-authorized-in-the-health-care-bill/

Michael Steele joins the "death panel" brigade

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/12/steele-death-panels-proper/

Guess who endorsed government death panels? Bush and Gingrich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_Directives_Act

The Texas Advance Directives Act (1999), also known as the Texas Futile Care Law, describes certain provisions that are now Chapter 166 of the Texas Health & Safety Code. Controversy over these provisions mainly centers on Section 166.046, Subsection (e),[1] which allows a health care facility to discontinue life-sustaining treatment against the wishes of the patient or guardian ten days after giving written notice if the continuation of life-sustaining treatment is considered medically inappropriate by the treating medical team.

The bill was signed into law while George W. Bush was Governor of Texas.


...And who endorsed advance directives recently? Newt Gingrich. The same guy who condemned the idea last week.

http://trueslant.com/matttaibbi/2009/08/12/newt-gingrich-changes-whats-left-of-his-mind-on-end-of-life-care/

Grassley, the "moderate" Republican, peddles the death-panel lie

http://iowaindependent.com/18456/grassley-government-shouldnt-decide-when-to-pull-the-plug-on-grandma

Grassley is supposed to be the moderate Republican that Baucus can negotiate with, to craft a Senate health bill, right?

How are we supposed to negotiate with the kind of knucklehead capable of spewing nonsense like this?

“You have every right to fear. You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life, you should have done that 20 years before. Should not have a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on grandma.”


Senator Baucus needs to wake up and realize that the Republicans will never negotiate seriously, and it's time to move on.

And every Republican who uses the phrase "pull the plug on grandma" needs to be smacked upside the head with a fucking 2x4.

Rush joins the euthanasia crusade

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/10/764590/-Rush-Limbaugh-is-a-deather

death panel = denial of coverage

According to Republican "logic":

When a public insurance plan denies coverage, it's a "death panel".

When a private insurer denies coverage, it's "good business practice", and "protecting the bottom line". (It's also fraud)

The difference being, private insurers really do deny coverage. The Democratic plan, contrary to the incessant lies, will not.

"death panel" lie is now a rightwing TV ad

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/new-ad-health-care-bill-will-deprive-seniors-of-care-if-theyre-not-worth-the-cost.php?ref=fpa