Planet Wingnut News for Friday

Giuliani says Sarah Palin's debunked ‘death panels’ claim is legit. — Yet another prominent Republican has endorsed former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's astonishingly false claim, which she doubled down on today, that health care reform will lead to “death panels.

Huh? Limbaugh, Rove to guest-star on Family Guy

And now my favorite: Finance Committee to drop end-of-life provision — The Senate Finance Committee will drop a controversial provision on consultations for end-of-life care from its proposed healthcare bill, its top Republican member said Thursday. — The committee, which has worked on putting together

Remember Senator Chcuk Grassley's wingnut comment at his townhall healthcare reform

by saying that the United States "should not have a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on grandma?" Well, remember Terri Schiavo case? Grassley expressed his views at the time: "I support the effort to protect Terri Schiavo. It’s the first case of its kind, a chance to choose life over death. I gave the option to life. . . ." Grassley didn't support "life." Instead, he supported governmental intrusion into the Schiavo matter. Grassley is now against governmental intrusion before he was for it which of course the voluntary consultation of end of life provision in the healthcare reform has been distorted by the GOP, wingnuts, and media. Grassley deserves the hypocrisy award.