Changing the Debate

If you haven't read Sarah Palin's statement on the ObamaCare, it's here on Facebook.  Go read it now.

Even if you haven't read it, you've heard the phrase "death panels."  That, to the best of my knowledge, is a Sarah Palin original.  The 'death panels' she speaks of refer not to any specific bureaucracy mentioned in the thousand page monstrosity of a bill, but instead to the inevitable result of rationed health care. 

Our forefathers fought and died to keep government out of their lives, to the greatest extent possible.   Rationed health care -- and let's not kid ourselves, that's what this health care 'reform' is all about, allows government intrusion into the most personal and difficult parts of our lives.  Who gets to decide whose life is worth living, and whose isn't?  Would my little niece, born months prematurely, who has survived and thrived against all odds, have made the cut?  Would my brother, who died of leukemia, have been given a vial of morphine and sent home after his diagnosis? 

No thanks. 

Okay, enough of a rant on that topic.  I find it fascinating that Palin is changing the terms of the debate, using nothing more than her Facebook page.

The hippies used to mutter about "three chords and the truth," although, like most of what the hippie freaks claim as their own, credit belongs to someone else -- a country singer named Harlan Howard, to be exact.  At any rate, three chords and the truth has mutated.  Maybe in 2009 it's all about a Facebook page and the truth.

And that's life, From My Position.