RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Yet again, the conservatives are using scare tactics.

We all know that the Bush administration was big on this. Bush openly lied to the American people when he told us that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons (or weapons programs, or whatever). Of course, being told that there could be a nuclear explosion on American soil at any minute scared much of the media and many Americans into submission. Let's face it, scare tactics work – Especially in a post 9/11 America. They allow anyone to mask any fact at any given moment.

Now those in opposition to the current health care bill (many former Bush supporters) are jumping up and down shouting, "Look! The president is trying to create DEATH PANELS! These will decide who lives and who DIES! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" (Of course, the great conservative intellectual Sarah Palin coined the term.) How stupid do these miscreants think Americans actually are? Have they no shame?

What seems a lot scarier to me is that most U.S citizens are inadequately insured and, quite frankly, one car accident away from bankruptcy and poverty. This is actually scary, but hey, let's worry more about fabricated threats from the maniacs on the far right.

I don't have to say that these "Death Panels" are a load of nonsense. That has been well documented in several newspapers and has been denied by people who actually know something about what is being put into the health care bill.

I can instead only react with seething rage as I watch these rumors spread. These are "Run for your Life" politics as usual.