Arizona: Sarah Palin

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

How do you take the textbook definition of a "safe" Republican district (a Democrat has not represented the region since 1854), a no-brainer that the Republican will win by default against token Democratic opposition, and lose the seat for the first time in 155 years? By caving in to pressure from the far-right extremist fringe Teabagger Taliban and the Mighty Wurlitzer of right-wing conservative "entertainment" personalities.

Blue Dog Democrat Bill Owens, the token opposition, won a stunning victory in the special congressional election in New York's 23rd congressional district only because the GOP Taliban and the conservative "entertainment" personalities declared civil war against GOP moderates and the GOP establishment, demanding ideological purity to conservativism - as they have defined it.

by David Safier
The Catholic Tuition Organization for the Diocese of Phoenix, a School Tuition Organization that receives tuition tax credit donations and gives them out as scholarships, never used to allow donors to recommend who the money should go to. But their funding grew stagnant, so they recently decided to accept recommendations. But now they're suspending the new policy -- not ending it, just suspending it -- in light of recent stories about abuses of the recommendation system by parents, STOs and private schools. Anyone who donated money and recommended the recipient can ask for their money back.

Though the wording of this passage is confusing, it sounds like the Jewish Tuition Organization is going even further.

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I received a request from a reader about the bill that Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) sponsored to allow Medicare reimbursements to doctors for end of life consultation. It turns out he originally sponsored this bill when he was a member of the House, and it was not controversial. Think Progress » Sen. Johnny Isakson: Palin’s ‘Death Panel’ Talk Is ‘Nuts’:

In recent weeks, conservatives have attacked a small provision in the House-proposed health care legislation that would broaden Medicare to cover counseling sessions for seniors who want to consider their end-of-life choices. Last week, Sarah Palin claimed President Obama plans to institute bureaucratic “

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

NEVER underestimate the depths to which Republicans will sink in employing their time-tested fear mongering to win at all costs. The PR firms which do their dirty work are bottom feeding sewer dwellers. (I have met many of them over the years). Frightening the elderly with death is as low as they can go.

Rachel Maddow follows up on my previous post about this GOP Astroturf campaign. Maddow addresses specifically the "living will" being perverted into "Obama death panels" by moon-bat in chief Sarah Palin and a plan to euthanize Grandma by conservative talk radio and Faux News, and even Republican members of Congress.