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" Welcome back to ourw weekly survey of the state of Our National Dialogue which, of course, is what Mr. Mac Rebenack would have come up with had he composed -- and/or covered &amp;quot;I Walk On Filtered Sprinters.&amp;quot; Uh-oh, Senator Aqua Buddha, noisy spalpeen of Crazy Uncle Liberty (!) apparently drifted onto the air of The Clinton Guy Shocked By Blowjobs in order to seek satisfaction upon the field of honor with friend of the blog, kindly Doc Maddow. &amp;quot;I will admit, sometimes we haven&amp;#039;t footnoted things properly. In fact, I&amp;#039;ve given thousands of speeches and I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ve ever footnoted any of those speeches... I&amp;#039;ve written scientific papers. I know how to footnote things. But we&amp;#039;ve never footnoted speeches. And if that&amp;#039;s the standard I&amp;#039;m going to be held to, yes, we will change and we will footnote things...But the difference is, I take it as an insult and I will not lie down and say people can call me dishonest, misleading or misrepresenting,&amp;quot; he added. &amp;quot;And like I say, if, you know, if dueling were legal in Kentucky, if they keep it up, you know, it would be a duel challenge. But I can&amp;#039;t do that, because I can&amp;#039;t hold office in Kentucky then.&amp;quot; Up with this, I will not put. On behalf of KDM, I offer myself as second, but not in a contest of crude firearms. No, my lad. We will be civilized. I will meet you in a place of your choosing and, since I will be representing the one challenged, I get choice of weapons, and we will duel with epees, my young buck. We can go to 15 touches, or to first blood. I care not. I say now, you are a cheat and an internet thief, and I proclaim it to the world. I accept challenge. I will hear from you within the week as to time and place or I will protest your cowardice to the ends of the kingdom. Now, young lackbeard, you know my mind. Dawn comes every day. (By the way, you should all read the greatest -- and the funniest -- book on dueling ever written. And you should do it tomorrow.) Anyway... It was a glorious fiesta of unbridled bullshit on Disco Dave&amp;#039;s Disco Dance Party. The Dancin&amp;#039; Master hosted not only Willard Romney, the least significant living Republican political figure, but also Bill Kristol, who finally became too much even for Fox News, which let him go, knowing full well that there would be cowardly demi-liberals somewhere to give him a gig. Willard, recently revealed in the new Halperin-Heileman doorstop to be a Santorum-level bite of the cock, quickly sent the hogwash needle into the red zone. Well, I think the president failed to learn the lessons that came from the experience of Massachusetts. First of all, the Massachusetts experience was a state-run plan. The right way to deal with health care reform is not to have a one-size-fits-all plan that&amp;#039;s imposed on all the states, but recognizing the differences between different states&amp;#039; populations, states should be able to craft their own plans to get all their citizens insured, and to make sure that preexisting conditions are covered. And there&amp;#039;s some other differences. In Massachusetts, we phased in the requirements so that there was a slow rollout. That way you could test the systems as you went along to make sure there wouldn&amp;#039;t be glitches. And perhaps the most important lesson the president I think failed to learn was you have to tell the American people the truth. And when he told the American people that you could keep your health insurance if you wanted to keep that plan, period, he said that time and again, he wasn&amp;#039;t telling the truth. Jesus Mary, what a bite of the cock. If he&amp;#039;d have been the Republican nominee in 2008, instead of 2012, we would not have heard any of this. We would have heard about how he&amp;#039;d Made It Happen in Massachusetts and He Could Make It Happen for the country. (I would still like him to explain why poor people in Massachusetts deserve better health care than poor people in, say, Louisiana.)  I think that fundamental dishonesty has really put in peril the whole foundation of his second term. &amp;quot;Fundamental dishonesty&amp;quot;? From a guy who spent three years running from his own record? Who barbered his own book between hardcover and paperback? How can you build that big a house in Malibu and not have any mirrors? Alas, the Dancin&amp;#039; Master apparently stumbled into the NBC archives and found Willard spouting something in 2007 that illustrates &amp;quot;fundamental dishonesty,&amp;quot; as well as what an insufferable bite of the cock Willard Romney has become.  GREGORY:You don&amp;#039;t believe all the states should have adopted this, but you do believe that the entire nation should take a mandate approach. If it was good for Massachusetts, what&amp;#039;s so wrong with taking it national? FMR. GOV. MITT ROMNEY: Well, what I said there was precisely right, which is that each state should be able, through the laboratory democracy model, to put in place the plan that works best for them. And if they adopt the Massachusetts plan, terrific. If they adopt a different plan, that&amp;#039;s also fine. But recognize, Massachusetts teaches some important lessons some states are not going to want to follow. One lesson is health insurance is more expensive in Massachusetts than anywhere else in the country. Now, that&amp;#039;s something that Texas and Minnesota and Montana are not necessarily going to want to adopt. And you&amp;#039;re going to see, as a result of Obamacare, premiums going up dramatically across the country. And, again, going back, I think the key thing that the president is trying to get away from is that he told people they could keep their insurance, and that was not the truth. And whether you like the model of Obamacare or not, the fact that the president sold it on a basis that was not true has undermined the foundation of his second term. I think it&amp;#039;s rotting it away. And I think the only way he can rebuild credibility is to work with Republicans and Democrats and try and rebuild a foundation. We&amp;#039;ve got to have a president. We&amp;#039;ve got to have a president that can lead. And right now, he&amp;#039;s not able to do so.  Says a man who mustered a grand total of 206 electoral votes and, to borrow a phrase from Coach Bob Knight, could not lead a whore to bed. The reason insurance in Massachusetts is more expensive is because it&amp;#039;s better insurance. Which is what this mendacious dolt was arguing all over the Commonwealth (God save it!) when he sold his plan up here. The man is a true bite of the cock. Later, though, the Dancin&amp;#039; Master brought on the young Kristol lad to lie some more about the same topic. BILL KRISTOL: A lot. A lot. I mean, it&amp;#039;s his signature legislative achievement. Two and a half years to implement it, they&amp;#039;ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars, I think $600 million dollars on the website alone. Tens of millions of dollars on advertisements to try to persuade people this is a wonderful program. Nope. Stop. Right. There. The $600 million figure is an easily debunked lie. There is no longer any reason to listen to Bill Kristol on any sibject ever, but he used to be able to lie better than this.  Let&amp;#039;s just move on over to ABC where, after Aqua Buddha got frisky, The Clinton Guy SBBJ decided to bring on Our Lady Of The Magic Dolphins, who once again has Seen Something Like She&amp;#039;s Never Seen Before, and the cartoon canaries flittering in and out of her ears are just awed by the very enormity of the spectacle of... a malfunctioning website. PEGGY NOONAN, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Yes, this whole -- the Obamacare thing, it appears to me, has kind of scarred -- at least the beginning and perhaps more than the beginning of the second administration, it is the headline, even as Obamacare was the headline of the first administration. You know, Bill Safire once said, advice to all journalists, never join a pile-on. But at this point, that pile-on is not getting smaller, it&amp;#039;s just growing because there&amp;#039;s nothing to say about Obamacare except from the moment the site debuted, straight through to the point that the American people day-by-day started learning how Obamacare was changing their lives, and cancelling [sic] their coverage and changing it, it has just been a disaster. I have never seen a story quite like this. Your old boss sold missiles to a terrorist state to help finance terrorism in this hemisphere. I can help you out with this. It was time then for Leadership Institute mole Jonathan Karl to chime in with numbers that did not comport with reality. JONATHAN KARL, ABC CORRESPONDENT: And the turnaround has been astounding. Think of where we were just a few weeks ago, the Republicans were blamed for a government shutdown that went on and on. And it was all this, you know, are the Republicans doomed to, you know, extinction? Poll numbers as low as you&amp;#039;ve ever seen. And now it&amp;#039;s all -- that&amp;#039;s over. The focus is on the president.  Except, of course, that the numbers for the Republicans currently must be calculated with the help of the Mole People, and that the biggest problem most people have with Obamacare is that it isn&amp;#039;t Medicare enough. But, as a way to keep from getting bogged down in all this fact-like flora, Our Lady came back from a brief stop in the Land Of Nod to tell us of this wonderful parfit gentil knight she has discovered. No word on possible foot-fondling, but that may come later.  STEPHANOPOULOS: Peggy Noonan, you spent some time with Governor Christie this week. NOONAN: Yeah he was beginning his big 7-day bus tour of New Jersey, you know, to end on Election Day. I found him to be an example of the lost joy, the lost pleasure of politics. He&amp;#039;s out there having fun. They love him. He&amp;#039;s going to win by, we don&amp;#039;t know, 20, 25, whatever, points. He is feeling triumphant, that is a rare thing to see in a Republican these days. So it was wonderful to witness.  Yes, by all means, witness the lost joy, the lost pleasure of politics. Is there any high-profile Republican who is so big a bite of the cock that la Noonan feels uncomfortable? Forget I asked that. Meanwhile, over in CBS, it was Useless Democrats Day starring the increasingly annoying Dianne Feinstein, who hasn&amp;#039;t yet gotten over her agita concerning Edward Snowden, International Man Of Luggage.  SCHIEFFER: Let me ask you about this. A German politician actually visited with Edward Snowden, the defector, who dumped all of this information out in to the public arena, met with him last week in Russia. He said he would try to enlist his help to investigate the NSA and suggested that he be brought back to this country and given clemency. What would be your reaction to that? FEINSTEIN: My reaction would be negative. First of all, this is an American, he was a contractor. He was trusted. He stripped our system. He had an opportunity, if what he was was a whistleblower to pick up the phone to call the House intelligence committee, the Senate intelligence committee and say, look, I have some information you ought to see. And we would certainly see him, maybe both together, maybe separately, but we would have seen him and we would have looked at that information. That didn&amp;#039;t happen. And now he&amp;#039;s done this enormous disservice to our country. And I think the answer is, no clemency.  Oh, shut up. He could have come to your committee, and your committee would have buried everything -- for my own protection, of course -- which is why Tom Udall and Ron Wyden, among others, have their heads steaming like Popocatepetyl at the moment. Especially now that we learn that the all-too-human, mistake-prone heroes of our intelligence apparatus have all the discretion of the average dumpster diver. I think DiFi and Snowden should be on the undercard myself. Bloviations at dawn! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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