Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) continued the thoroughly debunked right wing euthanasia/death panel meme today, telling a town hall crowd, “You have every right to fear….a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on Grandma.”
He also said, “There are some people who think it is a terrible problem that Grandma is laying in a bed with tubes in her… and that the government should intervene. I think that’s a family or religious thing that needs to be dealt with.”
Grassley is the latest republican to jump on the euthanasia bandwagon. Today, Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele said Sarah Palin’s “death panel” comment was “perfectly appropriate” given the “life-and-death decisions” the government would make under a health care reform bill.
