Gingrich defends Palin claim reform will cause ‘euthanasia’
Published: August 9, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich took to the air Sunday to defend Sarah Palin’s comments on Facebook that the Democrats’ health reform plan is an “evil” concoction that will lead to “death panels” deciding who gets to live and die.
On ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos pointed out that “the only thing in the bill” that could possibly resemble what Palin described “is that it would allow medicare to pay for what it says is voluntary end-of-life counseling.”
“I think people are very concerned when you start talking about cost controls,” Gingrich said during a roundtable discussion with former presidential candidate and DNC chairman Howard Dean. “You are asking us to trust the government. “I’m not talking about the Obama administration, I’m talking about the government.”
On Friday, former vice-presidential candidate and ex-Alaska governor Sarah Palin wrote a note to her Facebook page that said, in part: “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
“We know people who’ve said, routinely, you’re gonna have to make decisions,” Gingrich said. “Communal standards, historically, is a very dangerous concept.”
To which Stephanopoulos responded: “But that’s not in the bill.”
Responding to Gingrich’s claims, Howard Dean said that “this is something Newt and I agree on. I don’t want somebody in between the doctor and the patient, I don’t want the possibility of losing health insurance, I don’t want people setting standards or denying care. That’s all what we have now under the private health insurance system. That’s what happens.”
Dean mentioned that he worked for years as a doctor, and “never once did I have a Medicare bureaucrat tell me what I couldn’t do for a patient, but all the time we have bureaucrats from the insurance companies calling up and saying we’re not going to cover this, we’re not going to pay for that, we’re denying coverage for that. The system we have now is broken. We need to fix it.”
This video is from ABC’s This Week, broadcast Aug. 9, 2009.
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Nothing new here, The ugly old fear-mongering Gingrich raises his ugly freaking head again.
Weren’t we rid of this bastard for a few years? Who dug this irrelevant asshole up?!
Future of a Nation that can not trust the Government & Propaganda Media?
These talking heads on the right seem to have no shame……even a well known nut like McCarthy eventually was shamed….these people don’t even have the integrity of “McCarthyism”..its pedal to the medal, full on destruction of American Democracy…a corporate takeover, ..fascism… .like the American fascist party of the 1920′’s, 30’s and 40’s….J.P. Morgan, Irene Dupont, Prescott Bush and other “prominent Americans” were involved in
Do you see that ..? The American Almanac printed it
(Part 1 of this article was printed in American Almanac, Vol. 8, No. 24, of July 4, 1994; part 2 in Vol. 8, No. 25, of July 11; and part 3 in Vol 8., No. 26, of July 18, 1994.)
Part 1 explained why the British, and their Wall Street allies, the Morgans, hated President Franklin D. Roosevelt and how FDR battled to reduce their influence and power. Part 2 continued the story of FDR’s fight and laid out Morgan’s counterattack, featuring a 1934 plan for a fascist coup against the FDR White House, which the Morgans hoped would be led by the Marine hero, Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler. Part 3 began the story of explosive congressional hearings in which Butler exposed the Morgan plot.
The death throws of a Republican party unable to step out of its self-limiting box. Heaven forbid someone actually come up with a viable idea. If it doesn’t fit the Republican status quo, it’s a bad idea, and spreading lies about it is justified because, well, the Republicans have nothing better. So ‘death panels’, using your kids (after condemning others for doing so), and disrupting what could be intelligent discourse with sugar-loaded five year old temper tantrums is all they have left.
The Republican Party is dead. The GOP is simply a collection of kooks and freaks. Palin pimps her kids for personal gain, including poor little Trig whom she gave birth to in order to make herself look even better to x-tian right wing nut bags.
I doubt seriously Palin is going to stay home and take care of Trig. What’s she going to do? Dump him on her two youngest daughters? Palin is a quitter. I don’t think the governorship of Alaska is the first and only responsibility this little narcissist has bailed on.
More exposure needs to be made of Prescott and Poppy Bush’s support of eugenics and forced sterilization of blacks, native americans and children like poor little Trig Palin in the South. Of course, American history has been so sanitized and so much has been buried that many truths appear as science fiction to the types who show up at townhall meetings turning them into brownshirt style riots.
Greedy Nazi Munchausen by Proxy elitists Palin and Gingrich actually support genocidal denial of essential medical care for the “useless eaters” to boost CEO wealth. They pompously “oppose” doctor-assisted suicide of the incurably ill because they want “sinners” to suffer as much as possible. Gingrich is also bribed by the insurance and big pharma scamsters with the hottest hookers while aging, droopy boobed “Catholic” Call Girl-ista counts his money bribes. Palin wants health care for HER Downs Syndrome baby only. OTHER such babies can croak. Gingrich and Palin also want pedophile priests denying all other women ALL family planning access.
Newt is a dick and Palin is a whack job. I don’t understand why anyone with half a brain listens to them.
Actually what we know from experience is NOT to trust newt.
Why don’t they just get the real message out. “Save the insurance companies and our campaign finance dollars. Let the uninsured die!”
Don’t be fooled folks and don’t take these fascist assholes for granted, as it stands we’re 9/10ths of the way into a fascist state. The brownshirts (teabaggers, birthers, et.al.) have been perfecting their skills so that when Congress reconvenes they’ll be ready for more venomous attacks and with the help of the republican leadership they will shut down govt. It wouldn’t surprise me if a coup d’état follows.
I wish I could have seen Gingrich’s face when Howard said, “I agree with Newt.” Gingrich was undoubtedly thinking to himself, “uh-oh, what did I say????” Howard never misses anything. It’s like the moment at the State of the Union when Bush Lite stated that privatizing Social Security had not succeeded, and the Democrats all leapt up and applauded. Bush’s face told the whole story about how he knew he had stuck his foot in his mouth one more time. I’m sure Gingrich looked pretty much the same, although he has way more candlepower than Bush ever did.
The thing about Gingrich is that he knows what he’s saying is not true, but he says it anyone in order to further his own agenda, whatever that may be. And that is the definition of one sorry SOB.
so, our elected reps are telling us not to trust them? saying “we’ll kill you if you let us run things”?
Uh.. shouldn’t you ELECT better people then? You know, since we have this government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE? .. seriously, what kind of morons do we have in this country that lets the people they put in office tell them “hey, don’t trust us to do anything short of kill you for profit.. oh, and keep electing us”??
The right-wing has done one thing VERY well, it seems. They have the average idiots in America thinking their “government” is some big mean ugly “external threat”, when if any of them read their Constitution they would clearly see that WE are THE GOVERNMENT. It is NOT some “external thing”, it is US.. It became some ugly thing that LOOKS like an “external evil” because the PUBLIC LET THAT HAPPEN by voting PARTY, and trying to enforce their individual will on everyone around them, their religious dictates, by putting vipers into government that LIED to them, REPEATEDLY.. then make excuses for those same vile people.
amazing. We live in a Democracy but the public acts like they are stuck in some Dictatorship that they have no control over.
some 75% of people interviewed, when they were read statements but not told where they came from, said that the Bill of Rights was SUBVERSIVE. Public successfully turned moronic. A Democracy only works if the voting public is educated to at least some minimal degree, and we’ve made sure Americans are MUCH less educated than that.
“You are asking us to trust the government. “I’m not talking about the Obama administration, I’m talking about the government.”
“We know people who’ve said, routinely, you’re gonna have to make decisions,” Gingrich said. “Communal standards, historically, is a very dangerous concept.”
Interesting note: in the first quote, above, Newt acknowledges that part of the government is not under the Obama Administration’s control. I assume he’s talking about Bush’s “moles”, and apparently, necessarily being Republicans, Newt doesn’t trust them either. Fine distinction, Newt, and I applaud your discernment.
On the second quote: “Um, ah, Newt, aren’t LAWS ‘communal standards’? So you say we should get rid of all LAWS because they are “dangerous”???? So it appears Newt is going soft on laws, and therefore “soft on crime”. Illuminating, but in this case largely not exactly commendable (unless you’re for leting the Bush White House silde on a variety of high crimes committed between 1/20/01 and 1/20/09).
So where is the other side to counteract these lies?
That’s right Democrats. Take the high road again.
Losers.
Whats the spelling of the plural for Pussy? Is it pussies?
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
–Jonathan Swift
Gringrinch & Pillan are two monumental, consummate shitheads….these RePUKElicunt bastards have neither pride in their own ancestry nor hope for their posterity! I’m so thankful Dr. Dean could set them STRAIGHT right on the spot. I think the entire country’s fed up with their empty-headed, dishonest, fart-faced diatribes….air time for them is worthless; they have nothing positive to contribute.
Gingrich is the Republican FRAT-BRAT EXTRAORDINAIRE who
knows better but LIES, SMEARS, MISREPRESENTS, anyway!
With guys like THAT in the Republican leadership,
who needs enemies? ? ?
Gingrich is a disgraced, lying, philandering, thug, who is out of government. He is as outlandish as the bimbo from AK and says the most dishonest crap trying to rile up the morons on the right.
Does Newtie have a living will?
Hey, he’s old and growing more senile by the minute, so has he taken the time to have an attorney draw up a will for when he dies, felled probably by an acute case of Republican brain-fart syndrome. or does he care as little for his family’s future as he did for his first wife?
In other words, any in the media (or in ones own family) facing someone with Republican brain-fart syndrome who euthanasia, government and death panels in the same sentence should immediately ask them if they’ve made out a living will. Put those suffering from Republican brain-fart syndrome on the defensive, trying to justify their insane stance that there should be no discussion of living wills between a doctor and his or her patient.
Step right up, Newt, with your usual BS. Why do the same screwy people who have been wrong all along about almost everything keep getting media attention?
BTW, I’m watching the Joan Rivers Comedy Roast now and Carl Reiner is on talking about how when he started out they couldn’t even say “pregnant” on TV. Its worth remembering how the US and the world keep moving to the left, despite the screaming from the morons on the right. We’ll get healthcare, someway, somehow, maybe not the way we want it at first but we are getting there. The right-wingers are doomed. They can’t stop CHANGE.
Why did Sarah Palin put quotes around ‘death panel’? Does she think that quotes can indicate sarcasm… Like the textual equivalent of someone who uses fingerquotes too often? Or maybe she heard something about quoting people so you’re not liable, then ever so slightly missed the point….
I bet her people didn’t know that she had the password to her own facebook page, either.
why do they keep asking this disgraced once removed congressman, serial adulterer what he thinks? And why would anybody of the so called Christian party even listen to one of Satan’s workers?
Where is Palin getting her “level of productivity” quote from? That’s not in the legislation. Lucky for her and Newt, they’d be on the short list to go,
Hey, Sarah, quit makin’ things up!
BTW, talk about Palin being a quitter: she started quitting as far back as college. She kept leaving and so it took her six years to get an easy degree in journalism. She finally bimboed to the finish line at a third-rate state school. This lazy wacko is NOT presidential material. Although she could play a character if Hollywood ever decided to do a remake of “Animal House.”
“Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble, eye of gnewt….” Even Shakespeare, hundreds of years ago, knew not to ask for “brain of gnewt”, because there isn’t one.
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DEATH PANEL RULES SARAH PALIN, LOBBYISTS, GOP, UNFIT TO LIVE
– Wingnuts, CEOs, War Profiteers, MIC, War Criminals, All Danger To Humanity —
– Toxic Entities To Be Given Choice Of Remedial Education Or Euthanasia –
Obama fights back: http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck
Listen to Dr. Linda Pino’s congressional testimony on “real” death panels…she worked for Group Health and was a top performer….made a lot of money in “bonuses” (denying coverage and treatment)..saved the Group Health tons of money…but the patients died
You have Next Gingrich, who served divorce papers to his dying wife while she was still in the hospital, telling us about a fictitious “death panel” provision…it’s too bizarre to be true! Then, Howard Dean slams him down with the truth and Next sits there with his lying mouth, agape. Perfect. The amoral hypocrite, ex-Congressman vs. a brilliant doctor and ex-Gov. Only a big, stupid jerk could not see that the Republicans are up the ass of Big Corporate Insurance and Pharma benefactors. They do not care about average Americans. Repubs are all about lining their pockets with lobbyist cash.
I misspelled the assholes name. I meant Newt, not Next, god forbid a “next” Gingrich!
you have to have someone a little more credible than a prick that walks out on his wife that has cancer and divorces her while she is sick.No Newt has no crediblity at all. Sick prick if you ask me
The thing that scares me is that these sick fucks come up with this shit meaning it’s been on their list to be done if they get absolute power.KEEP THE REPUBLICAN BASTURDS OUT FOREVER