They just aired an RNC commercial on MSNBC featuring Michael Steele ballyhooing something called "The Senior's Bill of Rights." Of course the campaign is intended to scare old people. One of the items is "Prevent any Government Role in End-of-Life Care." No one is calling for that, other than to make it less expensive. But the idea, naturally, is to imply that there are death panels.
At the end, a voice urges seniors to check it out at GOP.com. I checked. It's not there. So the seniors who are familiar with the internet will spend the next several hours clicking around the Republican Party website desperately searching for it. Good job, Republicans.
By the way, Michael Steele and the Republicans want to privatize Social Security and Medicare, leaving it up to private for-profit corporations and the whim of the stock market. Sarah Palin's ghost writer, specifically, wrote today that he or she wants to do this:
Instead of poll-driven "solutions," let's talk about real health-care reform: market-oriented, patient-centered, and result-driven. As the Cato Institute's Michael Cannon and others have argued, such policies include... providing Medicare recipients with vouchers that allow them to purchase their own coverage...
The whole Republican strategy is only a couple notches above those door-to-door scammers who rob old people of their life savings.