Is Michele Bachmann "nuts" for characterizing a living will or end of life directive as "a death panel?"

This item is from The Washington Independent. It's too short to excerpt, so here's the whole thing:

GOP Senator: Palin’s ‘Death Panel’ Fib is ‘Nuts’
By David Weigel 8/11/09 9:52 AM

Ezra Klein talks to Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), the senator who wants end-of-life planning in the health care bill, and who inadvertently inspired Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), then conservative blogger Sarah Palin, to allege that the bill would put old people to death.

I just had a phone call where someone said Sarah Palin’s web site had talked about the House bill having death panels on it where people would be euthanized. How someone could take an end of life directive or a living will as that is nuts.

A Republican senator saying that his party’s last vice presidential nominee is “nuts” when talking about the health care bill? I’m surprised this isn’t getting more play.

Of course it's "nuts," and a lie: look who the "inspiration" was. (Her name's in the first paragraph.)

Who's this Senator Isakson, the guy who says that the "death panel" charge is "nuts?" Is he some wild-eyed liberal Senate pal of Obama's?

Nooooo! He's a Republican from Georgia--anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage and has received an "A" rating on gun rights from the National Rifle Association. He received a "92" rating on a scale of 100 by the Christian Coalition of America--and he says that Palin and Bachmann are nuts to pretend that the House bill on health care reform sponsors euthanasia and death panels.

Well, I don't care if he *is* a conservative--the man's right, on this issue. They're nuts.