Poorly fitted "Lego hair" Palin calls the upholding of Obamacare a "harbinger of things yet to come" and says if he is reelected "America will no longer recognize the country, that today you truly love." You know the one where the white guy is in the White House.

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Of course we knew that the upholding of the Affordable Care Act was going to have the effect of a sharp stick poked into the Grizzled Mama's eye, and true to form the "Lunatic from lake Lucille" rose from the murky depths to gnash her terrible teeth, and show her terrible claws on Greta "Seriously can't anybody else interview this moron?" Van Susteren last night.

Resplendent in a wig weaved together from bits and pieces of hair left over from Willow's beauty school classes, Palin demonstrated a Red Bull fueled laser like focus on her arch nemesis.....intelligent responses to questions.

Greta starts of by waving a piece of raw meat in front of Palin's cage door:

VAN SUSTEREN: Very well. Governor, that's about 140 characters or less as to how you feel about this decision today. Now tell me, given more chance to amplify it, your view of what happened today. 

PALIN: You know, I received a lot of messages about this one today and a lot of the emails and texts used the word "treachery" in the messages. And I tend to agree with that term used to described what happened today. 

But you know, we got to be optimistic about it. Basically, what Chief Justice Roberts did for us, for the American people, was put this issue "ObamaCare" and the individual mandate back in the hands of the people via our representatives. (Translation: I am going to stomp the crap out of these lemons until I get some damn lemonade!)

So now back in Congress's hands, Congress has opportunity to act on this tax, as this has been deemed a tax, as opposed to Obama's insistence that it wasn't a tax. And after the July recess, I expect Congress to come in and rescind this tax.  They have the power to adopt and enact a tax. (Did everybody get that? It's a TAX, TAX, TAX!) They also have the power to rescind it. I want to see that done in July.

"Treachery" huh? Well now I certainly did not get to read ALL of the responses to Palin's tweet, but the ones  I did read were not EXACTLY sharing her poisoned point of view.

Greta, who actually read the bill, is not so sure that Palin is using the correct verbiage, and risks a possible rabies infection in an attempt to correct her.



VAN SUSTEREN: All right, you know, President Obama has said this is not a tax. It was Chief Justice Roberts and the majority that has decided, has deemed it a tax, which is, of course, their privilege. They are the Supreme Court. I'm curious, is this a tax or not? 

PALIN (Leaning in and fixing Greta with the stare of a predator cornering a small helpless mammal): Absolutely it's a tax. It's nearly a trillion dollars worth of tax via levies, fines, tariffs, if you will, whatever anybody else wants to call them. This is a penalty. It is a tax on the people. It's a tax on states. It's a raiding of Medicaid funds which will result in states having to find other funds to supplement their Medicaid budgets. 

Overall, this is about a trillion dollars more tax put on the American people. Do people think, Greta, that there really is anything such as a free lunch? There is no such thing as a free lunch. (Unless you're a Palin of course. But you're not, now are you?)


And the 50 percent of Americans (Poor people) who are paying their taxes today are going to get hit with even more tax to pay for now this mandate of "ObamaCare." 

The other 50 percent who are thinking that perhaps they're going to get a free ride and get some free health care, they're not. They're going to have less availability of health care. They'll have fewer choices. They'll have less efficient, more bureaucratic health care, and it will be rationed. To say otherwise really, truly defies economic and common sense to say that health care with more enrollees in the programs will not have to be rationed. (Death panels! That's right you heard me bitch! Death panels!)


So people who are thinking that this is going to be a free ride for them, the 50 percent of Americans who aren't paying taxes today (You know, the poor who are too impoverished to afford any taxes.), they got another thing coming! (By the way, and I hate to correct a lunatic in the middle of  a nervous break down, but I do believe the term is "another THINK coming." Carry on crazy lady.)


I don't often give Susteren props but the fact she doesn't just drop her mic and run off the sound stage at this point is a testament to her intestinal fortitude, or perhaps just her fear that Palin would hunt her down like a wounded animal and finish her off if she did.

Palin continues her rant, throwing out the words like "tax," "Obamacare,"  "mandate," and "common sense" willy-nilly throughout the rest of her televised tantrum. But then she arrives at the end of her allotted six and a half minutes of crazy time, where the shit gets very real.

PALIN: Many, many states are not going to be able to afford expansion of Medicaid and these exchanges that are going to try to be forced down states' throats through "ObamaCare." I would like to see governors be tough and opt out of this and exert our 10th Amendment rights and tell President Obama, who does not understand the Constitution -- he even being a constitutional lecturer and supposed scholar in our Constitution, not understanding and probably never reading or absorbing the 10th Amendment to understand that states have rights.(Yes that's right, it's the PRESIDENT who DOES NOT understand the Constitution. Which is why he was smart enough to write the Affordable Care Act in such a way that the Supreme Court was able to uphold it. THAT is clearly the sign of a person who simply does not understand the laws of this land or the documents on which it was founded. Nice try moron!)

We are sovereign states that can make up our own minds about our budgets and how to prioritize the dollars that we have and the dollars that are shared by the federal government to the states. I'd like to see constitutionally conservative governors opt out of have Obama is going to try to do to the people of America through mandates on top of what the states already have to provide. 

Wait, did Palin just bring up the "Tenth Amendment" AND "sovereign states?" Aren't THOSE the same talking points rattled off by sovereign citizen groups and anti-government militias like the ones that recently convicted Schaeffer Cox belonged to?  Why I do believe they are.

Careful there "Battle boobed Barbie," you just might give your true alliances away.

Update: Just in case there are a few who may, for reasons that escape me, feel that Palin has a point about the Affordable Care Act raising taxes here is a repudiation of that point courtesy of Think Progress:

We found that an estimated 28.6 million Americans will be eligible for the tax credits in 2014, and that the total value of the tax credits that year will be $110.1 billion. The new tax credits will provide much-needed assistance to insured individuals and families who struggle harder each year to pay rising premiums, as well as to uninsured individuals and families who need help purchasing coverage that otherwise would be completely out of reach financially. Most of the families who will be eligible for the tax credits will be employed, many for small businesses, and will have incomes between two and four times poverty (between $44,100 and $88,200 for a family of four based on 2010 poverty guidelines). 

In addition to these tax credits and the fact that more than 30 million Americans will have new access to health insurance, the health care law will help create millions of jobs.

So there crazy lady, put that in your hash pipe and smoke it!