Religiosity can “cloud” one’s thinking and human beings on life support are the “living dead,” according to Bonnie Erbe, contributing editor to U.S. News and World Report. Her August 11 blog post, “Sarah Palin's Lies About Obamacare Are Based on Religion,” attempted to rebut former Governor Sarah Palin’s controversial remarks about health care, and ended up insulting people of faith.
It all started on August 7 when Palin wrote a Facebook note. “And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
To the liberal Erbe, “flailin’ Palin” went beyond the pale. “Once again, former Governor Palin is letting her religiosity cloud her thinking.” But Erbe didn’t stop there.
“She and others of the Schiavo ilk read into the Bible that the public should pay for life support even when there's not a remote possibility that the life in question is salvageable. We don't need healthcare reform to resolve that problem. All we need do is shift the cost of sustaining the living dead to the people who insist on keeping them on life support. And I don't mean to their insurance companies, I mean shifting that cost to the individuals themselves.”
Attacks on Palin are nothing new for Erbe. As CMI previously reported, on March 12, Erbe wrote that Palin’s teenage daughter, Bristol, was more mature than her mother. After Pope Benedict XVI suggested that the use of condoms was counter-productive in the fight against AIDS in Africa, Erbe wrote on March 18 that it “was one of the most horrifically ignorant statements.”
And then there’s Erbe’s fantastic advice on April 1 when she suggested that pregnant women who are struggling financially should consider having an abortion.
Erbe seems to be the one with clouded thinking.
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Erbe is Stuck on Palin
August 11, 2009 - 15:59 ET by allanfWow -- Erbe is obessed with Palin. She must be very threatened by Palin.
"She and others of the
August 11, 2009 - 16:02 ET by rbosque"She and others of the Schiavo ilk read into the Bible that the public should pay for life support even when there's not a remote possibility that the life in question is salvageable.... "
But Erbe wants us to pay for abortions and euthanasia. There's not much "reading into" a Commandment that says. "Thou shalt NOT kill."
Parents Prosecuted for Praying
August 11, 2009 - 16:09 ET by Nortoinstead of seeking medical help. Where would she stand on that?
I say the same for welfare
August 11, 2009 - 17:28 ET by UndercoverConservativeall these folks that believe we should sustain the lifestyles of those who will not work for their own gain, should pay for it themselves instead of making it into a tax and power grab.
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Pure evil, this b*tch is
August 11, 2009 - 16:11 ET by SickofLibsHey, there's not a "remote possibility" that Erbe will someday become a compassionate human being, but she's still alive.
But I'm sure this monster has already prepared legal documents dictating that her miserable existence not be artificially extended even one day. /s
And I hope I get the chance to hear about it someday. Soon.
But Erbe's "religiosity"
August 11, 2009 - 16:17 ET by mattmBut Erbe's "religiosity" doesn't cloud her thinking, does it?
Hypocrites like Erbe are religious, it's just that they have a different "god" - which in most cases is the god of Self.
Their belief system influences their thinking too. But only they get to let their beliefs determine policy.
Besides, I think she's misrepresenting what Palin is saying. But that's also OK for Erbe to do, because when you are a god, you can do whatever you want.
"Religiosity" ...is that
August 11, 2009 - 16:35 ET by PeskyDane"Religiosity" ...is that kind of like "irregardless?"
"Schiavo ilk"
August 11, 2009 - 19:02 ET by nolotrippenYou know, those people who don't want the goverenment or some former-husband to unplug the tubes.
Folks, the Libs are seeing Palin on the TV every single day. They're mumbling to themselves, "She's supposed to go away. She promised to go away. Didn't she promise to go away? Nurse, I need a new drool cup."
These people are mentally
August 11, 2009 - 19:51 ET by moderncommentaries83These people are mentally ill. Every last one of them.
As a Catholic, I have an obligation to respect the dignity of life from conception to natural death.
Abortion and euthanasia - two things provided for in this bill - are not included in that spectrum. Neither is denying basic medical care to the disabled, the infirm, and the elderly because they "cost too much."
Life support is a wholly different beast. Extraordinary circumstances (i.e., ventilators) are not required in Catholic social teaching if the person is not going to make a full recovery. Basically, if you can't breath on your own, we religious nuts consider that NATURAL DEATH. Duh.
The dig at Schaivo was unnecessary, but proves that liberals are so uncomfortable around the differently abled, especially those who require the patient, sacrificial care of another human being, that they'd rather they die (be killed by the state, more like) than exist. And - moreover - it points to a great microcosm of the government-health care mindset.
Terri's parents wanted to care for her and pay for her care. Her husband, Michael, did not. Regardless of the fact he broke his wedding vows by cheating on a disabled Terri and fathering children with another woman, he was able to see that she was starved and dehydrated to death because he said that's "what she wanted" - that he benefitted from it finanically? Well, that's a question we're not supposed to ask.
Erbe's damn right in saying my concerns come from religion. My religion doesn't measure one's health care worth on the basis of how productive, beautiful, or desireable they are.
Obama, and his liberal lickspittles, think otherwise.
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam
Palin
August 12, 2009 - 09:25 ET by jessieHPalin can't bu lying, she isn't in Congress.
I'm curious
August 12, 2009 - 11:15 ET by katiejaneI wonder how Erbe would react if someone said we should stop all drug treatment programs, all programs helping the generational welfare families, all AIDS research & treatments because after all - why should the public pay for the medical care of THOSE unproductive people?
If you want to shoot dugs in your veins and destroy yourself - why should I pay so you can have clean needles to do it? If you're some unwed bimbo pumping out baby after baby by some loser drug pusher - why should I support you and your poorly cared for kids? If you've gotten AIDS due to drugs or gay sex - why should I care if you die in agony?