Unhealthy debate

Joe Galloway takes on the brownshirts who’ve been turning town halls on health-care reform into Know-Nothing revivals. Writes Galloway:

The only outfits in America that have the right to refuse you treatment for an illness or deny you an organ transplant are the health care corporations, if you’re unlucky enough to have to depend on that wonderful private insurance the right wingnuts are so loudly praising and defending.

This is the same wonderful health coverage that’s driven hundreds of thousands of American families into bankruptcy because their private insurers refused to pay for urgently needed surgery or cancer treatment, or simply cancelled their coverage.

Speaking of which, somebody who is in urgent need of medical care — psychiatric treatment, to be precise — is Sarah Palin, who once again has unhinged her snakelike jaws to give us all a good whiff of the rotting brain behind the designer eyewear.

Her contribution to the “debate,” says Political Animal’s Steve Benen, “might be the stupidest thing ever written about health care policy. Just two weeks after she implored journalists to “quit making things up,” Palin has manufactured the idea of a “death panel” out of thin air.”

Remember when batshit-whacko rants like this came mostly from smelly street people arguing with the voices in their head? I’m thinking I’d be in favor of a death panel, if it came equipped with a time machine. Then we could put a few folks’ parents to sleep before they procreate.