How the Death Panels Died

Lately, everyone on both the Left and Right feels the need to establish their own reasonableness by fretting over Sarah Palin's term for Obama's End of Life Healthcare provisions. She called them "Death Panels." Our National Commentators apparently fear that such "political hyperbole" as this might damage the national debate.

Except that, after this former (and in many circles, disgraced because she's former) Governor of Alaska, published her short critique of the Democrats Healthcare plans for America, on Facebook of all places and on a Friday, no less, when all the Really Smart People know that Fridays are Death (pardon the hyperbole) for news because all the People Who Matter are heading out of town for a well-earned bit of time off, after this mere private citizen went public with her opinion, she caused the political dials in Washington to pop so far into the Danger Zone that the Democrats within a week (which is well nigh instantaneous in Washington time) eliminated the End of Life provisions from their National Healthcare plans.

"Death Panels" it turns out was the perfect political metaphor delivered at the perfect political moment to shock the Democrats into an awareness of at least one (of many) indefensible policies contained in their National Healthcare prescriptions for America.

This lady effortlessly tosses political Ballistic Missiles, while all others bandy spit balls.