"...She Can See Korea From Her House, Too...You Betcha..."

When it comes to salient political perspective, I’m guessing that for you, like me, the first name that pops into your head isn’t Hawkeye Pierce.

We would both, I’d offer you, be overlooking a pretty spot on point of view.

Details coming up after the break.


(CNN) — Sarah Palin is accusing President Obama’s health care plan of looking to create a “death panel” that would weigh whether her parents or son Trig were “worthy of health care.”

"Americans delve into the disturbing details of the nationalized health care plan that the current administration is rushing through Congress, our collective jaw is dropping, and we’re saying not just no, but hell no!" the former Alaska governor said in a post on her Facebook page late Friday.

In one of her first public policy statements since leaving office late last month, Palin discounted the administration’s view that the president’s plan would cut health care costs. The only path to lower costs, she said, was less treatment.

"And who will suffer the most when they ration care?" she wrote. "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."


Pointing out that Alaska’s version of Ann Coulter is obtuse has begun to feel like making fun of Rosie O’Donnell’s weight.

It’s such an obvious and easy thing to do that it seems cheap.

So let me try, conceding my total belief in her uselessness, to simply offer this suggestion to you.

Re-read the last paragraph of her comments.

And then ask yourself if the current system isn’t already pretty much doing what she describes.

Anybody reading this who has not, or does not know someone who has not, experienced being turned down for one medical service/treatment, et al or another by the infamous HMO?

Yeah. That’s what I thought.

Is Obama’s plan the answer?

Don’t know yet. Jury’s still out.

As far as Tina Fey’s airhead twin in concerned, though, I’m compelled to think that lampooning her and her vapid observations are fair game, as defined by the political manifesto of the aforementioned Dr. Pierce of the 4077th M*A*S*H.

When resident weasel Frank Burns momentarily grew a pair and asked Hawkeye and Trapper why they insisted on treating him with such scorn and ridicule, the good doctor replied…

“You invite abuse, Frank…it would be impolite of us not to ask it in…”

Knock, knock.

Who’s there?

Sarah.