Michael Steele: VA Encouraging Vets To Commit Suicide (VIDEO)

[ubiquitous_a]

Michael Steele is running a bit late to the latest "Let's Frighten The Villagers With Lies" party, but, as TPM's Rachel Slajda points out, he's plunging in "feet first." At issue is the so-called "death book," which is actually a pamphlet called "Your Life, Your Choices: Planning for Future Medical Decisions." If the pamphlet very explicitly does

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[chibirhm]

OH DISGRUNTLED CUSTOMER WITH FLY IN YOUR SOUP, JUST WHEN I THOUGHT YOU COULDN'T TOP YOUR "GET BLACK VOTERS THROUGH FRIED CHICKEN" REMARK, YOU GO AND PROVE ME WRONG.

THANK YOU?

[jaded110]

[jwaneeta]

After this has been debunked for two solid days, now he tries to pile on? I just... I don't even... does anybody even talk to this guy?

[theartema]

[baked_goldfish]

I don't know why the GOP is keeping on with this tactic. Servicemembers, by and large, don't take kindly to bullshit, and that's exactly what this "death book" claim is. I'm really not sure who they're trying to win over.

[ubiquitous_a]

I'm really not sure who they're trying to win over.

Generally people who are clueless enough to believe them. Personally, I think better of our troops than that.

[baked_goldfish]

Generally people who are clueless enough to believe them.

But they're already on that side!

Personally, I think better of our troops than that.

As do I. I find it telling that these folks honestly think servicemembers are so dumb/weak/inept that they've lived with a "death book" since 1997 and meekly not done anything about it.

[ubiquitous_a]

But they're already on that side!

Yeah, which makes all of this crap even more an exercise in political and masturbatory stupidity.