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"  I thought that the funniest thing today regarding the Affordable Care Act was going to be the ridiculous goat-roping that Kathleen Sebelius would have to endure before a House committee made up of silly people. Ah, but I had not reckoned with Willard Romney. The president was coming to Massachusetts to defend the PPACA. Willard once lived among us and deigned to be our governor for the 20 minutes of his term in which he wasn&amp;#039;t looking for a way out of town, so he wasn&amp;#039;t going to let this pass unremarked. Since he left the state last November, apparently, he has been working on some new material. &amp;quot;In the years since the Massachusetts health care law went into effect nothing has changed my view that a plan crafted to fit the unique circumstances of a single state should not be grafted onto the entire country,&amp;quot; Romney writes in a Facebook posting. I&amp;#039;m telling you, this stuff just kills. You may recall, and apparently Willard doesn&amp;#039;t, that he also ran for president in 2008. He&amp;#039;d been planning it for a while. That was why he pushed so hard for what we still call, affectionately, Romneycare. He was going to be the Republican governor who worked across the aisle to bring about market-based health-care reform. I guarantee you he wasn&amp;#039;t telling people around the country in 2007 and 2008 that what he did in Massachusetts wouldn&amp;#039;t work for them. Of course, then a Democratic president took his plan national, and the Republican party decided to go mad over the whole thing, so that, by 2011, Willard realized that only by being utterly truthless and hollow on his major achievement could he become a nominee. And, boy howdy, was he just the man for that job. Anyway, down in Washington, Sebelius ran through the now-ritual apologies for Glitchghazigate, but that wasn&amp;#039;t enough. She was there as a tree from which people could proudly fly their stupid flags. Marsha Blackburn argued for people who wish to exercise their freedom to be cheated by insurance companies. John Shimkus blathered about abortion as Democrats on the panel tried to determine who won the pool on the first mention of abortion. Cory Gardner and Billy Long both ask the customary &amp;quot;If you love Obamacare so much, why don&amp;#039;t you marry it?&amp;quot; question, perhaps believing that the committee&amp;#039;s hearings were being piped into middle-school lunchrooms all over America. At one point, apparently, Sebelius commented, &amp;quot;Whatever,&amp;quot; which seemed to sum things up admirably. I have never seen an oversight committee the primary function of which is the demolition of that which it is tasked to oversee. My plan does not cover nearly enough whiskey for this. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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