{"id":39342,"date":"2020-03-24T10:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=39342"},"modified":"2020-03-24T14:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T21:27:17","slug":"republican-death-panels-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/03\/24\/republican-death-panels-are-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Death Panels Are Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of you remember the days when Sarah Palin, aka Bloody Bullseye Barbie, aka Drill Baby Dingbat, accused Barack Obama and the Democratic Party of including Death Panels in the Affordable Care Act.\u00a0 They claimed we wanted to lower the cost of ObamaCare by killing seniors.\u00a0 At that time, I made the graphic you see below, because I knew the Republican Party\u2019s penchant for projection, and that if they were accusing us of intent to kill seniors, I could safely predict that they would do just that, when the time they deemed appropriate arrived.\u00a0 That time has come.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In a blistering column for the Daily Beast, conservative Matt Lewis ripped into the Republican Party<\/a> for demonstrating it really does stand for putting profits before people if its response to the coronavirus pandemic is any indication.<\/p>\n

According to the author of \u201cToo Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump,\u201d the GOP has joined the president\u2019s \u201cdeath cult.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting with a blunt, \u201cIn the last 24 hours, it has become clear that, despite warnings from experts like Dr. Fauci, Donald Trump is willing to sacrifice lives to try and save the economy and his chances for re-election,\u201d Lewis suggested Republicans are not only backing the president \u2014 they\u2019re proudly and publically embracing it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pointing to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) proclaiming, \u201cWe don\u2019t shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways. It\u2019s a risk we accept so we can move about. We don\u2019t shut down our economies because tens of thousands of people die from the common flu,\u201d the columnist expressed his disgust by writing, \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure Johnson just said he was comfortable with millions of Americans dying of coronavirus\u2014so long as it doesn\u2019t disrupt economic activity<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis logic is spreading among Republicans,\u201d he continued. \u201cConsider the comments Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick<\/a> made Monday night on Fox News: \u2018No one reached out to me and said as a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren. And if that\u2019s the exchange, I\u2019m all in.’\u201d\u2026\u00a0 [emphasis added<\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he and other seniors are willing to die from virus to save economy<\/a><\/p>\n