Sarah Palin Was Right #27: ObamaCare and the Marquis de Sade

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Scragged contributing editor Petrarch writes in "ObamaCare and the Marquis de Sade" that more people now believe Sarah Palin was right about death panels than when she first made the charge:

The more Americans hear about the Democrats' plans, the better they understand the details, the more powerful and active their fear and loathing becomes.

Sarah Palin attacked Obamacare as creating "death panels" nearly a year ago; the Democrat response was that this was a lie. Shouldn't a year be sufficient to debunk a false accusation?

Unfortunately for Mr. Obama, after his year of persuasion, explanation, town meetings, and providing fodder for talk shows, more people believe that Palin was right about death panels than when she first leveled the charge. This is in large part because both England and Canada's national health systems have what amount to "death panels" that refuse treatments based on expense or age. England's "death panel" even comes with the photogenically Orwellian acronym of NICE. A whole lot more Americans have heard of NICE today than had a year ago. They didn't like what they heard, they believe it's an integral part of Obamacare, and they want no part of it.

What happens when an out-of-control government rams a policy down the throats of the American people that they do not want? History records the Whiskey Rebellion, the violence of Prohibition, and, of course, the Civil War; surely we don't want to follow those examples?

Petrarch is erred on one detail, however. Gov. Palin first mentioned death panels in an August 7 Facebook op-ed, which would make it almost eight months ago, rather than nearly a year.

- JP