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Sarah Palin redux: 'Civil discourse'
by Mark Silva
After stirring a hornet's nest with a claim that President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats are planning government "death panels'' in a healthcare reform that promises to be "downright evil,' Alaska's Sarah Palin now says it's time for a "civil discourse.''
The former governor, at her Facebook page, notes today that "Alaskans will join Senators Murkowski and Begich in town hall meetings to discuss the current health care legislation.
"There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to rush through Congress, but we must stick to a discussion of the issues and not get sidetracked by tactics that can be accused of leading to intimidation or harassment,'' Palin writes in her Facebook Noes, the number of followers growing in the past few days.
"Such tactics diminish our nation's civil discourse which we need now more than ever because the fine print in this outrageous health care proposal must be understood clearly and not get lost in conscientious voters' passion to want to make elected officials hear what we are saying,'' she writes. "Let's not give the proponents of nationalized health care any reason to criticize us.''
It seems a little late for that, perhaps, considering Palin's rabble-rousing comments over the weekend and now with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer denouncing the people who have disrupted congressional town-hall meetings with loud protests as "simply unAmerica.''
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