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In the midst of reading Palin’s Facebook posts about climate change I ran into her newest post/poison about Government death panels:  “Midnight Votes, Backroom Deals, and a Death Panel”.  Her images conjure up Harry Reid, dressed the dusty black of a Christmas-hating Ebenezer Scrooge, in a back alley doctor’s office advocating death for all except patients seeking late-term abortions.

Part of what’s disturbing is how manipulative Palin is;  it’s sometimes does not seem possible that she believes her own rants –how does she miss the self-contradiction?   She argues, for example,  that the government health care bill reduces access to health care and promotes  rationing (hence the jump to the idea of the “death panel”) while at the same time she declares that the bill (because it offers so much, unfettered, access to health care) will be ruinously expensive.    (In Palin’s world, private insurers never deny access to health care, and those who can’t pay for health care seem somehow to magically not need it.)

Palin admits in this post that her use of the term “death panel” was “a metaphor”.  This, to me at least, implies an understanding that such decision-making bodies are not a true facet of the proposals.  And yet, she continues to bandy the word about, knowing how it has been, and will be, parroted by followers eager to find totalitarianism in anything connected to Obama.

“This is about politics, not health care,” she says, and then, so nobly apolitical, ends her post with the promise/threat that “2010 is coming.”