jillio
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The "real solution," eh? Use "death panels" to help balance the budget? Why, in the past he smeared others for even daring to suggest that Obamacare would support death panels.
Here are what Krugman said previously by denying death panels were ever in the picture.
August 13, 2009: "Right now, the charge that’s gaining the most traction is the claim that health care reform will create “death panels” (in Sarah Palin’s words) that will shuffle the elderly and others off to an early grave. It’s a complete fabrication, of course." http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/opinion/14krugman.html?_r=1
August 20, 2009 “It seems as if there is nothing Republicans can do that will draw an administration rebuke: Senator Charles E. Grassley feeds the death panel smear, warning that reform will “pull the plug on grandma,” and two days later the White House declares that it’s still committed to working with him.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/opinion/21krugman.html
October 4, 2009 “The Republican campaign against health care reform, by contrast, has shown no such consistency. For the main G.O.P. line of attack is the claim — based mainly on lies about death panels and so on — that reform will undermine Medicare. And this line of attack is utterly at odds both with the party’s traditions and with what conservatives claim to believe.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/opinion/05krugman.html
February 25, 2010 “So what did we learn from the summit? What I took away was the arrogance that the success of things like the death-panel smear has obviously engendered in Republican politicians. At this point they obviously believe that they can blandly make utterly misleading assertions, saying things that can be easily refuted, and pay no price. And they may well be right.”
March 21, 2010: “Politicians like Sarah Palin — who was, let us remember, the G.O.P.’s vice-presidential candidate — eagerly spread the death panel lie, and supposedly reasonable, moderate politicians like Senator Chuck Grassley refused to say that it was untrue.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/opinion/22krugman.html
By the way Paul Krugman is a liberal columnist for the New York Times. He is godlike to many Democrats. He is godlike to many on the left. He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 2008. And his "final" solution would be to use death panels as a way to help balance the budget.[/QUOTE]
Sarah Palin wasn't right about this or anything else that came out of her mouth. And the fact that you continue to believe blantant lies and manipulations of facts makes one question your ability to actually analyze.
To think that anyone would even attempt to bring this ridiculous allegation back up and give it validity is laughable and a sign of great desperation that they may, after all, be on the loosing end of the stick.