Palin's Pavlovian Response to House Health Care Passage

I spent a lot of time in a small Alaskan church. I'm glad I did. It helps me interpret Palin's evangelical dog whistles.

The title: "The Pelosi Bill Was Rammed Through on Saturday, But Sunday's Coming."

Seems harmless to a casual reader, but to the evangelicals? Instant salivation. During sermons about the crucifixion, a typical preacher line goes, "Friday was a dark, dark day, but Sunday's coming." Answered with many "Amens." So, Nancy Pelosi just killed Jesus, and Sarah is going to resurrect him?

Is she equating the health care bill to the crucifixion, and the conservative comeback as the resurrection? Really? Go on, Sister Sarah, tell us how how the GOP is going to forgive us for all our sins and give us eternal life. The same GOP whose logo has inverted satanic stars. Anyone with half a wit of faith would call you on your blasphemy.

"We've got to hold on to hope, and we've got to fight hard because Congressional action tonight just put America on a path toward an unrecognizable country. "

UNRECOGNIZABLE? From what? A country that lies its way into wars? A country that tortures? A country that transports prisoners to other countries for torture? A country that wiretaps its own citizens? A country that neglects its veterans; poor and sick? A country that sides with corporations over its people? A country that looks away from evidence of environmental decay?

Well, I'm fine with becoming something other than the country you recognize.

"The same government leaders that got us into the mortgage business and the car business are now getting us into the health care business."

The reason for the bailouts in the first place, Sarah, is because decades of Republican deregulation left no one minding the store. Former President Bush, by the way, pushed through the first bailout, and it was Bush whose 2004 campaign sought to lower barriers for home ownership! What about the same government that employs Blackwater XE over our military? What about our justice system being for sale to the highest bidding private prisons? All your honking about privatizing goods and services is a little late.

"Despite Americans' decisive message last Tuesday that they reject the troubling path this country has been taking, Speaker Pelosi has broken her own promises of transparency to ram a health "care" bill through the House of Representatives just before midnight. Why did she push the 2,000 page bill this weekend? Was she perhaps afraid to give her peers and the constituents for whom she works the chance to actually read this monstrous bill carefully, if at all? Was she concerned that Americans might really digest the details of a bill that the Wall Street Journal has called "the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced"? "

Oh, yes, last Tuesday's decisive message that said, "Hey, Bill Owens, you're in! First Democrat elected to NY House District#23 since the Civil War! Now go vote an "Aye" on the health care bill?" Right, that one. Betcha wish you had that $25,000 back about now. And the WSJ? Wow, you mean Rupert Murdoch's paper? Oh...it's...getting...clearer. On another note, the WSJ, last year, said you were a terrible candidate in a piece called, "Palin Failin'"...so I guess they are right some of the time.

"This out-of-control bureaucratic mess will be disastrous for our economy, our small businesses, and our personal liberty. It will slam businesses at a time when we are at double-digit unemployment rates - the highest we've seen in a quarter of a century. This massive new bureaucracy will cost us and our children money we don't have. It will rob Americans of more of our freedom and further hamper the free market."

Lady, you think the free market is eBay. Your party deregulated that free market into such a predicament there isn't a coupon to save it. Check out the Gramm Leach Bliley Act, also known as the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act. Gramm, Leach and Bliley were the trio of Republicans back in 1999 that were just swamped with constituent phone calls demanding they do something about those pesky bank regulations that prohibited the merger of investment banks with commercial banks and insurance companies. You can use the "googles". Thank your lucky stars Charlie Gibson didn't ask you about that!

"Make no mistake: we're on course to have government commandeer one-sixth of our economy. The people who gave us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac now want to run our health care. Think about that."

Yes indeed. The people that gave us Fannie and Freddie; hmmm...that would be your former running mate, John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis. Davis headed the Homeownership Alliance, a mortgage industry lobbying group formed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Under Davis, the Alliance's primary goal was to step-up the number of mortgages granted-setting the table for the the mortgage crisis. And yes, health care is kind of a big deal. We get that.

"All of us who value the sanctity of life are grateful for the success of the pro-life majority in the House this evening in its battle against federal funding of abortion in this bill, but it's ironic because we were promised that abortion wasn't covered in the bill to begin with. Our healthy distrust of these government leaders made us look deeper into the bill because unfortunately we knew better than to trust what they were saying. The victory tonight to amend the bill and eliminate that federal funding for abortion was great - because abortion is not health care. Now we can only hope that Rep. Stupak's amendment will hold in the final bill, though the Democratic leadership has already refused to promise that it won't be scrapped later."

"...us who value the sanctity of life..." Are you out of your mind? You don't even value a wolf running from a plane. You don't value a young girl who has been raped. You want the death penalty and cry for more war. You wouldn't know the sanctity of life if it dropped dead in your lap.

"We had been told there were no "death panels" in the bill either. But look closely at the provision mandating bureaucratic panels that will be calling the shots regarding who will receive government health care."

Alaskans are still waiting for your explanation of the death panels under your aborted watch as governor. There are still over two-hundred dead who weren't granted health care they were qualified for because of your negligence. Your legacy is "death panels" to some Alaskan families, and not because you spouted the phrase a few minutes before Charles Grassley.

"Look closely at provisions addressing illegal aliens' health care coverage too."

I wonder where Lazarus lived...

"Those of us who love freedom and believe in open and transparent government can only be dismayed by midnight action on a Saturday. Speaker Pelosi's promise that Americans would have 72 hours to read the final bill before the vote was just another one of the D.C. establishment's too-common political ploys. It's broken promises like this that turn people off to politics and leave them disillusioned about the future of their country."

Hey, WE ALL LOVE FREEDOM. Freedom from crazy is what I'd like right now. Transparent? You couldn't be transparent in a Saran Wrap bikini. Open? Well, you're open for business and that's about it. You are rich to call Pelosi on a broken promise...you said you'd be governor and you quit. Again, I thank you for breaking a promise.

"But despite this late-night maneuvering, many of us were paying close attention tonight. We'll keep paying close attention. We need to let our legislators in Washington know that they still represent us, and that the majority of Americans are not in favor of the "reform" they are pushing. After all, this is still a country "of the people, by the people, and for the people." We will make our voices heard. It's on to the Senate now. Our legislators can listen now, or they can hear us in 2010. It's their choice."

The majority of Americans did not vote for you. The majority of Americans want reform. Our voices are being heard. In 2010, 2012, or any other 20...you will not be our choice.

 

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Comments

[HuffyAmy]

It kills me how she says we all the time, like she has any part in the political establishment. She is a failed governor and vice presidential candidate. She is a leader only in her own mind.

[Imago]

"Lady, you think the free market is eBay."

Iced tea through my nose snorting laughter.

[gems]

Say no more. Palin is dangerous.

[MrBurlesk]

$arah Palin is not totally bad -- if it weren't for her we probably wouldn't have Shannyn Moore. And right now I am very grateful for Shannyn Moore.

[wherriott2]

Shannon, great post as usual but my favorite line, and there were many, was:

"Freedom from crazy is what I'd like right now."

How anyone can take this lady seriously drives me to drink (more)!

Thank you!

[GenosseJoe]

"drives me to drink (more)"

Be careful with that drinking. Or you might start liking to be told by government what top were, what to eat, where to go, what to read, where to work and much much more.

[Shannyn Moore - Huffpost Blogger]

Don't forget who you can marry and force you to stay pregnant...oh, wait...that's right...

[GenosseJoe]

Who told Sara whom to marry? Who is forcing her to do anything she does not want to do herself?

I guess, Sara Palin is an example of the strong woman, who takes command over circumstances of life. Feminist dreams came true.

It makes your point non-applicable. As to government trying to command our lives - it is a true sad reality. Under some progressive and socialistic countries government even told men and women whom to marry (usually, based on race).

[Plurabelle06]

While I commend your voice of reason in the storm of madness that is Sarah Palin, I am saddened to say it won't make any difference. Sarah and the people who support her don't make decisions based on fact, logic, reason, or sanity.They "know what they know" and they have "their facts" and we have ours. Palin is dumb, but she's not stupid. She knows that she can never hold her own in any real discussion, so she takes the Glenn Beck approach of doing ridiculous drive-bys in speeches and Facebook posts. I mean what serious politician or thinker makes their points on Facebook or Twitter? Palin is a joke, but she's made millions on her crazy tweets, so the joke is on us.

[1laingirl]

I agree with everything in your post except for the joke being on us. I will not be buying Sarah's booklet, nor would I pay any money to support or pay to see/hear her. The joke is on those people who do because she has little regard for them other than what they can do for her, primarily give her money. You're so right about people who "know what they know." I had a friend (watches Pox News, no computer), who told me "something" about Obama, and I asked her where she heard it. She said she didn't remember, and I told her I didn't believe the story. When pressed, she said she "just know it's true." I informed her that she was entitled to making up her own opinion, but not making up her own facts.

[skinsqb17]

;thanks for truth

[marleysghost]

She's right....the America we are is one that has abandoned its people in favor of corporate interests and a massive self-perpetuating war machine. I wish more people would speak up against the interests Palin represents.

[Deirdre89]

Bravo as always, Shannyn!

[MelRoy]

You mean "brava".

BRAVA!!

[mamala4]

A brilliant piece of journalism, so simplistically put, that even Caribou Barbie should be able to understand what a jo*e she is.

[mollymac]

As 20+year Alaskan, I am so proud of your taking this looneytune to task. Thank you so much for saying what so many of us would like to say to her face but do not have the opportunity to do. You are a voice for sanity.

[zoodle]

Thanks Shannyn. Great post. I have to wonder who's paying the health insurance premiums for the 3 generations of Palin's who live in Sarah's house. Do any of them have a real job?

[Eykis]

Shannyn, as always, GREAT ARTICLE. I am so happy to have found you and other Alaskan bloggers.

Shannyn, keep up aprised of Levi's custody battles. Thanks.



Zoodle, fanned, for asking the same question I ask all the time? Nobody is employed it seems in that family and Trig is bound to have medical needs.

[kwalters]

Now that Sarah hit the $jackpot they have no worries...the kids are all part native and qualifie for single payer universal healthcare provided by the Alaska Native Health Care system...

They never have had to worry about healthcare...ever!

[skinsqb17]

damn bunch of commies, that's what they are

[mitsie]

Even the Republicans don't want you Sarah. Instead of writing your hypocritical, inept, and rambling information, why don't you learn to do some research of the "facts" First of all, you and your followers are no more patriotic then the rest of us. We love freedom just as much as you do, so you don't own that either thank God. So go help another candidate lose another election, and be happy that the GOP ratings are at 20%. If you ever try to run for President, you will find out that the GOP and the Dems, as well as the Independants will lash out against you. If you want to do something constructive, try being a wife and mother and forget politics. You are not as great as you think you are, and you know much less then you think you do.

[ComeOnAlready]

Fanned!

[MelRoy]

In an article yesterday about Levi Johnston's most recent interview, a Republican strategist laughed, "This guy reminds us every day just how low rent (the Palins) really are".

[pnc]

Thank you for such a clear, direct, fact-inspired post. You are a wonderful watchdog and a credit to journalism.

[cbat]

You rock Shannyn. Great info also.