I can still hear the bullet whizzing by my ear. You know, the one we dodged when John McCain and Sarah Palin were defeated in November.
Now Sarah Palin has said that the Obama health care plan will create a "death panel" that would try to euthanize her Down Syndrome baby, Trig. Newt Gingrich defended her outrageous statements, saying also that "you're asking us to trust the government."
OK, I've always known that Sarah Palin was a lightweight in the brains department, but this isn't just a stupid statement, it's downright dangerous. Now we have morons interrupting town hall meetings saying things like "keep your government hands off my Medicare" (last time I looked wasn't Medicare a government program? Oh, yeah, it is!!) Out there on the right there seem to be a lot of people who are willing to believe anything that comes across their e-mail, no matter how outrageous and untrue, if it comes from someone of the Republican persuasion. That's sad, but unfortunately I know it to be true. I get these e-mails forwarded to me by my right-wing father. I should say, I used to.... I've had to set my e-mail to automatically delete my 88-year-old father's e-mails because they got me so incensed.
And by the way, Newt... "you're asking us to trust the government?" I seem to recall you used to be, let me see... oh, yeah -- the Speaker of the House!
