{"id":1401,"date":"2009-08-16T01:14:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T05:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2009-08-24T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T19:10:53","slug":"death-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/08\/16\/death-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Were For “Death Panels” Before They Were Against Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican hypocrisy is stunning. Almost everyone who’s been throwing around the “death panel”<\/strong> epithet used to have a very different opinion of end-of-life-care planning<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1) Back in her half-term as Alaska governor, Sarah Palin spoke out for advance healthcare directives in her 2008 Healthcare Decision Day Proclamation.<\/p>\n

2) Rush Limbaugh enthusiastically read ad copy championing LegalZoom.com, whose services include do-it-yourself living wills. <\/p>\n

3) Newt Gingrich recently advocated for advance directives (end-of-life planning) in his July 2nd Washington Post column.<\/p>\n

4) Most Senate and House Republicans voted to fund counseling for end-of-life issues and care<\/a> in George W. Bush’s 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill.<\/p>\n

And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

Republicans Were For “Death Panels” Before They Were Against Them
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Dear Sarah and Limbaugh and Newt,
\nPut your “death panel” nonsense on mute.
\nCuz you once were big fans
\nOf end-of-life plans.
\nWere they “death panels” too? Now please scoot!<\/p>\n

Related Posts: An Open Limerick To President Obama;<\/a> Tantrum Politics;<\/a> and Waterloo Lies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican hypocrisy is stunning. Almost everyone who’s been throwing around the “death panel” epithet used to have a very different opinion of end-of-life-care planning: 1) Back in her half-term as Alaska governor, Sarah Palin spoke out for advance healthcare directives in her 2008 Healthcare Decision Day Proclamation. 2) Rush Limbaugh enthusiastically read ad copy championing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,52,159,556,11,519,154,6,7,3,9,51,176],"tags":[844,846,830,842,847,843,845,729,841,2776,361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}