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" Back when those of us in the Commonwealth (God save it!) were luxuriating under the barely distinguishable leadership of Governor Willard (I&amp;#039;m Outta Here, Beyotches!) Romney, in 2006, when his heart already belonged to Iowa, he managed to get passed a major reform of our health-care system. I mention this for two reasons. First is that he seems to have forgotten he did so, and I live to serve here. And, second, and the really important reason is that \u2014 Glorioski! \u2014 it really, sort of, you know, works! Here&amp;#039;s the scoreboard. Most of us are covered, especially the kids, Most of us really like it. And, now, it seems, its impact on employment on the Commonwealth was at worst negligible. (Unemployment rose here for the same reasons it rose everywhere \u2014 the worst president ever allowed a deregulated financial system to eat the world.) It&amp;#039;s not single-payer. It&amp;#039;s not even the public option. But it&amp;#039;s a damned sight better than what we had before, which was chaos. As a measure of how transcendently nutty the Republican party has become, you really can&amp;#039;t do better than the fact that Romney cannot run on the one unalloyed triumph he had in the one elective office he ever won, and the one thing for which the people of the Commonwealth remember him in any way fondly. In fact, he has been forced to go around the country not mentioning Massachusetts at all or, if he does, to explain what a freaky bunch we are, and how his approach here will drive the country to ruin, and to be really a quite remarkable liar. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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