Zombie Death Panel lie lives The Death Panels were and are simply lies and the Washington Post today fails to mention that fact and instead refers to them only as controversial. The Pulitzer Prize winning non-partisan Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter run by the St. Petersburg Times awarded Sarah Palin’s death panel assertion
It’s online biggest political lie of the year. Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest.
But some prominent Republicans didn't reject the death panel claim. The Post’s Shailagh Murray reports today on the Senate passage of the Health care bill. The bill passed 60-39 early this morning and not one Republican voted in favor. In her summary of why no Republican supported the bill Murray says
One of the toughest critics, as the debate drew to a close, was Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), who last summer had spent months trying to craft a bipartisan reform package with Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (Mont.).
Grassley abandoned the quest after the "death panel" controversy erupted in August and the debate took a sharply ideological turn. The Iowa Republican said Wednesday that he concluded that Democrats were ceding too much authority over health care to the federal government, while failing to aggressively contain costs.
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