Isn't It Time To Euthanize Reid's Wife?

Update: Comments closed. I don't have time to mind the idiots and Lefty trolls who need to spew filth of no consequnce. yawn.

I'm not sure I quite understand this, given that cost is so important as a burden to taxpayers when it comes to health care. If Democrats want so badly to abort babies because of it, why are we bothering with someone who has a broken neck and back at 69? It sounds to me like she's pretty well used up and has probably been living off the taxpayers for plenty of years to begin with. Aren't we at least going to get a vote on it?

Sen. Reid's daughter Lana Reid Barringer, 48, who was driving the mini-van, and his wife, Landra G. Reid, 69, a passenger, were both injured. Landra suffered a broken back and a broken neck in the crash; Barringer suffered minor injuries, Sen. Reid's office said Thursday.

I realize her crook of a husband and his pals in Congress have excluded themselves from the mess they're going to compel everyone else to join, but we're still paying the bills, are we not? I don't see that she's worth it at this point, frankly. I can't recall her ever doing anything for me.

Come on, Harry - do your civic duty. The nation's broke and counting on you guy. Pull the plug and get back to work. And don't bill us for a full day today, either. This is no time to be sloughing off. Air freight her home, you can bury her during recess on your own time and dime. Or are you going to bill us for that, too?

Reid has stayed at his wife’s bedside throughout the day Friday and returned to the Capitol in the late afternoon.

Comments

[richard mcenroe]

If Pelosi has her way next week, this is not a 'modest proposal.'

[astonerii]

In Stewies voice from Family Guy. "You went there man, you totally went there"

[HeatherRadish]

Alinsky. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

I like it.

[Sissy Willis]

You are a genius! "Righteous" outrage will out, wheels will spin, and your point will be front and center in the next news cycle: Socialized medicine and death panels for thee, but not for me. Throw the bums out!

[WBestPresidentEver]

I LOVE IT DAN.....GREAT DAMN POST...! AND...if anyone don't like it...well you are worst than Hitler !

[ED-209]

Sounds like an unviable tissue mass to me.

[carol]

You may have a more valid point than you realize. Fourteen years ago I was in a car accident and broke my back. I was in rehab for months. In addition to my GP I was seen regularly (weekly for the first four months) by an orthopedic, a neurologist and a physical therapist. I was on four different prescription drugs. Fortunately I had excellent insurance but I saw the bills and they were breathtaking. I doubt I would have been given the level of care I received if we had nationalized medicine and I was only thirty-eight at the time. No way in Hell that a 69 year old woman would receive that level of treatment under ObamaCare. She would be told to choose between "the red pill and the blue pill" and sent home to suffer.

Unless she happened to be a senator's wife.

[Lala]

I don't think a cost/analysis would be in her favor.

[PA]

Since she married Harry Reid, she's obviously brain dead already. I'm just saying...

[Doc]

Shame on you all.

This is completely inappropriate and the kind of bloody stuff in which liberals dance joyfully.

While completely accepted and even applauded by a cretin like Alinksky and his followers, it is beneath the dignity of any human being.

We are better than this.

[Kensington]

Yikes, Doc,

You're missing the point.

When liberals do stuff like this, they really think it's a good idea. For example, they really do think that death panels and pain pills are the way to go...for everyone else.

This post is just kind of pointing that out.

[astonerii]

Bummer Doc, I thought most people that read this site would have picked up on the irony of it all.

[HeatherRadish]

Doc, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and health-policy adviser at the Office of Management and Budget says flat out that the old and disabled should be denied care to free up resources for the more deserving.

Mrs. Reid is old and will probably have some degree of disability. If she wasn't married to a party apparatchik, what do you think Reid, Obama, and the Emanuels would advocate for her?

It's not "beneath our dignity" to point out that the people who seek to control us are monsters.

[Dan Cleary]

We absolutely should euthanize Reid's wife.

Think of all the dentures that would pay for.

[Steve Bergeron]

Excellent post and point. Check mate on the cancerous liberal snobs. You pretentious lemmings think this bill won't affect you. The glory lies in that I am healthier than the majority of the welfare entitlement whores and look forward to pissing on their graves after your 'free' care finds you no longer a wise investment to the collective.

[jesme]

Disgusting. You should be ashamed to suggest such a thing. I understand that you're making a legitimate political point, but there's a time, a place and a way. And this ain't it, not for any decent gentleman.

[Dan Riehl]

Well, it is nice to know you can type and hand wring at the same time, Jesme. zzzzzzzzz

[Jim Ryan]

Yes, Dan, have the decency not to say what sort of medical system the Dems are bringing us. Please! Or at least pretend that the rationing happens only in Canada and England and couldn't happen here. Be a good little dhemmi.

[blanche]

You are scum.

[Dan Riehl]

Perhaps, blanche, but I am free scum, rather that than a statist bag of crap like you, dear.

[john r]

I don't like Reid either, but wish his wife and daughter well. Joke or not, this kind of rhetoric does not serve you or our cause.

[Teddy's SEARCH+RESCUE]

We take great pride in knowing that OUR FOUNDER, was the original "Death Panelist."

Yes, he could have gone for emergency help and saved Mary Jo, before she suffcated to death, in an air-pocket. But at what "cost" to him personally? Surely he would have been arrested on the spot, for DUI,etc. And the Nation, would have been deprived of his leadership over the next 40 years.

When Obama/KennedyCare is passed, the question will eventually be asked - "What would Teddy do?" http://www.FATBOY.cc

[jim]

Keep it classy, dude.

Voted "Best Post To Justify Excavating Riehl's Basement For Bodies Of Neighborhood Pets & Homeless People" for 2010!

[Rick Moore]

Dan, I think this is a brilliant piece of satire, even if a bit risky. Anything that drives the lefties nuts while beating them over their with their own twisted morals is a thing of beauty.

[Doc]

It is beneath our dignity to engage in the airing of the concept to "air freight her home" as the ORIGINAL post stated.

Let the anti-life people to wallow in their evil valuations and judgments of human life. They will reap what they sow
To point out their hypocrisy and their evil is one thing, but the original post did not accomplish this.

Christians everywhere should pray for the recovery of Mrs. Reid, and that perhaps through this, her husband can see the evil that he does and repent.

[Dan Riehl]

Get lost, Doc - if you're as you say you are, I've been watching you high-minded twirps get your lunch money stolen by the Left for years. if you don't have the ballz to get in their face, be glad someone does. We can't all be sheep like you, content to walk to slaughter after writing a "stern" reply.

[T J Symanski]

Pretty darned mean-spirited, and not the way to persuade anyone to your point of view.

I can't stand Reid, but trying to have fun with a tragedy in his family is just plain not cool.

[GREEN JOB$ CZAR]

It's almost like an http://www.Indoctrinate-U.com reunion here over here!

[david r]

I'm sure she squarely fits the death panel's criteria for euthanasia. Right there in the Code of Federal Regulations.

[HANOI JOHN KERRY]

I will be doing a http://www.LIVESHOT.cc on CNN Sat., explaining how the "biblical rains" in the Northeast this weekend, are caused by global warming.

[thorneycroft]

Since she is insured her injury will contribute $400,000 to this years GDP. It's only the uninsured that are a drag on the economy. You do want the economy to grow, right?

[RickS]

I'm sure Dingy Harry has enough clout that he could have her airlifted to Cuba, so she can get some of that really good universal health care the libs keeping harping about.
http://tinyurl.com/ylyzfsv

[ctw7193]

What a world class asshole you are.

[Warren Bonesteel]

The funny thing is...there are Republicans as well as Democrats who would limit American's right to say such things. We all think that good taste and our personal lifestyles should be legislated into law forcing others to live just the way we do...and punitive damages instituted against those who don't think, act and live as we do.

The other funny thing? Both sides make such statements and arguments, taking themselves seriously, while denying that they've ever said or done such things. Free Republic, Daily Kos, comments at HuffPo or Ace of Spades, change the nouns and issues from one to the other and you've got the exact same arguments.

A variant form of NIMBY, they all make specious and malicious statements about their opponents, while claiming that the other guy is the evil bastard.

Meanwhile, the vitriol is flung by both sides, and neither can understand why the nation and the world is in the shape it's in...it's always, always the other evil bastard who's at fault, you see. ...and we are always as just and pure as the driven snow...

Of course, a lot of people really need to get some reading comprehension. This rant by Dan was sarcasm, pure and simple. If Leno, Fox or even Letterman had said something similar, many of us would think it amusing.

[Ponderosa]

Yes, Dan, that it is just soooo rude of you bring it up before the bill is signed into law.

Please wait at least another four years or so. After HC is in ruins.

Thanks in advance. /sarc

@jesme Just keep building your bridge Col. Nicholson.

[ANDERSON POOPER]

Hey everyone,

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[dee]

Oooh ctw, those tiny widdle violins are almost drowning out your howls of self-righteous indignation....

Screw little Lord Harry and his parasitic family.

Scummy Lord Harry and his filthy enablers treat the US populace with zero respect; as such, they've earned our deep and abiding antipathy.

[Gregory Koster]

Dear Mr. Riehl: Youa re off the beam on this one. The skill that went into the writing shows. It's a big reason I read RWV often. But the post is repellant, not so different from Jane Hamsher's photoshopping Joe Lieberman in blackface. You write to "Doc":

"Get lost, Doc - if you're as you say you are, I've been watching you high-minded twirps get your lunch money stolen by the Left for years. if you don't have the ballz to get in their face, be glad someone does. We can't all be sheep like you, content to walk to slaughter after writing a "stern" reply."

If you have an example of "stolen lunch money" I'd be glad to read it. But the bluster and ghetto spelling are hollow, right out of the same playbook that howls the Tea Partiers are motivated by racism because Obama is President.

Specifically: this post is tied to Obamacare, a disaster in the making for this nation. I'm with Mark Steyn: passing Obamacare is highly likely to give the nation a permanent left-wing government, the more so since the conditions to repeal it won't happen until at least 2013, and maybe not then.

How many of the Democratic Congressmen, the only ones who can stop this disaster, will change their vote should they read your post? Zero, a number as hollow as the ethical core of your post. It's on a par with those Lefties who roared for Dick Cheney's death every time his heart acted up. To the contrary: your post will be a small weight on the other side of the scale, cited in argument to prove the heartlessness of the Right. Hypocritical? Sure, but the Left has never paid much heed to honesty. To counteract your post, a sizable number of telephone calls and letters will have to be written to these Congressionals. The scales are too close for any such self-indulgent posts as you've written to be anything but damaging to the cause. But not to you. No, indeed. This post will do you nothing but good with many people. Too bad. Rewarding bluster is poor practice. So is continuing the degrading adoption of ghetto manners and spelling in the name of "edge." The Right doesn't do edge well, nor should it. See: Krauthammer. That you've decided to go Sullivan on us is dismaying.

Sincerely yours,
Gregory Koster

[Dan Riehl]

"How many of the Democratic Congressmen, the only ones who can stop this disaster, will change their vote should they read your post?"

You're point is not valid, Gregory. I don't write for Congressmen and I don't fancy myself able to change their minds. I write for the grassroots. And I want them angry and pumped up come March 16th. It is only they, en mass, that can change any minds at this point. I've no desire to be a Krauthammer, or a Sullivan, who doesn't even know what he is at this point.

[Warren Bonesteel]

"I've no desire to be a Krauthammer, or a Sullivan, who doesn't even know what he is at this point."

Heh. It's gotten to the point where trying to figure out which is which is getting confusing. Mebbe Sullie is Krauthammer's alter ego? ...or vice-a-versa. The question? Is he a super hero or a super villain?

[Brad Schwartze]

"The Right doesn't do edge well, nor should it. See: Krauthammer. That you've decided to go Sullivan on us is dismaying."

Gregory Koster, you're so cute when you use such high-minded lies. The Right INVENTED edgy commentary, as any perusal of old Pat Buchanan and William F. Buckley columns will attest (and we won't even get into Joe McCarthy's old speeches). Dan is just continuing the art form, in today's tech-friendly form.

Man up, for a change.

Sincerely yours,

Brad Schwartze

[Lonely Conservative]

Hey Dan, Harry didn't take your advice. Mrs. Reid was treated to the best health care in the world on our dime. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/12/reid.family.accident/

[mark l.]

"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34167-2004Oct14.html

the woman would be cured, except we elected bush...

need a case of where pain and suffering of others is fodder for jokes?
consult cheney's hunting partner, harry whittington.

maybe kos wants to chime in about his feeling of 'mercenaries' in Iraq.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Dan, Screw these people that want to bash and trash you for your ARTICLE. YOU WERE AND "ARE" right on. I would love to see more posts from you like this. LET THEM EAT DIRT.
She is no more worthy of surgery than another women her age. RIGHT O-BAMA...HARRY ? Does "she" PAY TAXES and contribute to the general Slush fund in the USA....NO......her Healthcare is free and paid for by US the taxpayer as Sir HARRY is in the US Senate.
She has no business driving anyway and if the TRUTH BE TOLD ...she was probably driving too slow and the semi came up on her quickly before he realized there was some stupid women driving that could not read the min. speed limit signs.
Enough ...Just keep em steaming DAN. Turn it up a notch or two. Give em a taste of their own medicine. A double dose. :O)

I am on the right, damn straight...but there comes a time when sitting back being Mr. or Mrs. or Miss "nice guy" don't get it anymore. Get in their face like they have us for years. They can dish it out and we are to say nothing. NOT ANYMORE...The damn gloves are going on and I am ready to take em on !

[mark l.]

"But what we can do is make sure that at least some of the waste that
exists in the system that's not making anybody's mom better, that is
loading up on additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence
shows is not necessarily going to improve care, that at least we can let
doctors know and your mom know that, you know what? Maybe this isn't
going to help. Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but
taking the painkiller."

obama.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/Story?id=7920012&page=2

unless there is a cure for quadrapalegia, this is the precise scenario that obama was trying to talk his way around.

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if you are looking for some karma, wbpe, find out if the truck driver was a union member hauling solar panels.

"She is no more worthy of surgery than another women her age."
couldn't have said it any better.

her husband is in the process of creating a healthcare system, which he will never have to deal with, since he has his own.

[Warren Bonesteel]

Soundtrack for the debate?

Sick Puppies - "You're going down."
Within Temptation - "Stand My Ground."
Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Veteran of the Psychic Wars."
The Cruxshadows - "Winterborn."
The Cruxshadows - "The Eye of the Storm."
Dragon Force - "Through the Fire and Flames."
Idina Menzel - "A Hero Comes Home."
Globus - "Europa."
Heather Alexander - "March of Cambreadth."

[Andrew N.P.]

Ha ha! Old people dying is funny!

[jaymienj]

FANTASTIC, Dan.

Make them choke on their hypocrisy.

[SteveB]

GR8 POSTINGS DAN RIEHL!! If Saul Alinsky had had more than 1/2 a brain, and if he used it correctly to examine what's happening to our country now.......he would throw his outrage complete against the Reids/Pelosis/Obamas now.......with words like quoted above:
"Make the enemy live by its own book of rules"!!!!!!
That's perfect!
I would add one thought though.......we know the Reids WON'T........but they should at least start having to spend their net worth so they pay the costs. NOT THE TAXPAYERS! ok, that won't happen either. Damn these govt statists......and their family members who live off the private sector!!

[JadedByPolitics]

GREAT ONE Dan! Hold those MONSTERS to their own standards! I agree and really Rahms brother would as wll under his plan for lotteries etc. to "feed" out scarce medical care. So you lefty tools and your death masters are the one's who call for deciding DEATH so Dan has given a good example of choosing and don't act all high and mighty on this issue as if you don't wish everyone on the RIGHT dead and now you are getting it in return ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!