{"id":23342,"date":"2013-10-31T22:04:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T02:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2013-10-31T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T02:04:15","slug":"the-daily-gouge-friday-november-1st-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=23342","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge, Friday, November 1st, 2013`"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, November 1st, 2013&#8230;but before we kick off the first edition of November, here&#8217;s another bit of deliberate misrepresentation so rank it could only come from the bowels of MSDNC:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object id=\"player1\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http:\/\/mrc-tv.s3.amazonaws.com\/sites\/default\/files\/videos\/converted\/124944.mp4&amp;image=http:\/\/mrc-tv.s3.amazonaws.com\/sites\/default\/files\/video_thumbs\/124944\/124944_0001.jpg&amp;dock=false&amp;controlbar=over&amp;skin=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/jwplayer\/skins\/modieus\/modieus.zip&amp;logo.file=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/sites\/all\/themes\/mrctv\/images\/watermark.png&amp;logo.link=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org&amp;logo.hide=false&amp;logo.over=0.9&amp;logo.out=0.5&amp;logo.timeout=10&amp;logo.margin=5&amp;logo.position=top-left&amp;plugins=yourlytics-1,sharing-2&amp;yourlytics.callback=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/postback\/remoteview?nodeid=123756&amp;sharing.link=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/videos\/msnbcs-ronan-farrow-clintons-represent-style-honesty-public-craves-right-now&amp;sharing.code=%3Ciframe+title%3D%22MRC+TV+video+player%22+width%3D%22640%22+height%3D%22360%22+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrctv.org%2Fembed%2F123756+frameborder%3D%220%22+allowfullscreen%3E%3C%2Fiframe%3E&amp;autostart=false\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/jwplayer\/player.swf\" \/><embed id=\"player1\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/jwplayer\/player.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/mrc-tv.s3.amazonaws.com\/sites\/default\/files\/videos\/converted\/124944.mp4&amp;image=http:\/\/mrc-tv.s3.amazonaws.com\/sites\/default\/files\/video_thumbs\/124944\/124944_0001.jpg&amp;dock=false&amp;controlbar=over&amp;skin=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/jwplayer\/skins\/modieus\/modieus.zip&amp;logo.file=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/sites\/all\/themes\/mrctv\/images\/watermark.png&amp;logo.link=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org&amp;logo.hide=false&amp;logo.over=0.9&amp;logo.out=0.5&amp;logo.timeout=10&amp;logo.margin=5&amp;logo.position=top-left&amp;plugins=yourlytics-1,sharing-2&amp;yourlytics.callback=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/postback\/remoteview?nodeid=123756&amp;sharing.link=http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/videos\/msnbcs-ronan-farrow-clintons-represent-style-honesty-public-craves-right-now&amp;sharing.code=%3Ciframe+title%3D%22MRC+TV+video+player%22+width%3D%22640%22+height%3D%22360%22+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrctv.org%2Fembed%2F123756+frameborder%3D%220%22+allowfullscreen%3E%3C%2Fiframe%3E&amp;autostart=false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><strong>Honesty&#8230;and the Clintons&#8230;in one sentence!\u00a0 Yeah&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/yeahright3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23379\" alt=\"yeahright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/yeahright3.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>That would depend upon what your definition&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qD7cEEKbyic\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHVEDq6RVXc\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4B7dZReimPI\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;of &#8220;honesty&#8221; is.\u00a0 A lot of words come to mind when you mention the name &#8220;Clinton&#8221;; &#8220;honesty&#8221; doesn&#8217;t even make the Top 100!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now, here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of serial prevaricators, aka, deliberate and repetitive <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>liars<\/em><\/span> (a term the nauseatingly non-judgmental Bill O&#8217;Reilly still can&#8217;t bring himself to use), here&#8217;s the latest ad from The Gang That Still Can&#8217;t Shoot Straight:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/avFS7Kf_GDc\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Though the majority of the MSM continues to sleep, as the <em>WSJ<\/em> records, a significant portion of the rest America is experiencing&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The ObamaCare Awakening\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304200804579163541180312658?mod=djemEditorialPage_h\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The ObamaCare Awakening<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subHed deck\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The ObamaCare Awakening\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304200804579163541180312658?mod=djemEditorialPage_h\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Americans are losing their coverage by political design. <\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obamacare-this-is-going-to-hurt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23345\" alt=\"obamacare-this-is-going-to-hurt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obamacare-this-is-going-to-hurt-290x300.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obamacare-this-is-going-to-hurt-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obamacare-this-is-going-to-hurt.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Thee<\/span>, not me!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For all of the Affordable Care Act&#8217;s technical problems, at least one part is working on schedule. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The law is systematically dismantling the individual insurance market, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>as its architects intended from the start<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The millions of Americans who are receiving termination notices because their current coverage does not conform to Health and Human Services Department rules may not realize this is by design. Maybe they trusted President Obama&#8217;s repeated falsehood that people who liked their health plans could keep them. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>But Americans should understand that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this month&#8217;s mass cancellation wave has been the President&#8217;s political goal since 2008<\/span><\/em>.<\/span> Liberals believe they must destroy the market in order to save it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The ObamaCare Awakening\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304200804579163541180312658?mod=djemEditorialPage_h\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #800080;\"><em><strong>http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304200804579163541180312658?mod=djemEditorialPage_h<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on the lies behind the sale of the otherwise unmarketable Unaffordable Care Act, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&#8216;s Phil Klein explains&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"hd-font entry-title color3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Here's Why Obama Lied\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/heres-why-obama-said-people-could-keep-their-insurance\/article\/2538146?utm_source=DITTO%20TEMPLATE:%20Morning%20Examiner%20-%2010\/30\/2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Morning%20Examiner\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Here&#8217;s why Obama said people could keep their insurance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">*<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">*Editor&#8217;s note: In otherwords, why he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>LIED<\/em><\/span> out his unaccomplished arse!!!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/30a62-062812_obamacare-lied.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23359\" alt=\"30a62-062812_obamacare-lied\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/30a62-062812_obamacare-lied-300x274.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/30a62-062812_obamacare-lied-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/30a62-062812_obamacare-lied.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;For decades before Obama burst onto the political scene, liberals had been pushing for the federal government to establish some sort of national health care program. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>But this effort always ran up against the same obstacle \u2014 an overwhelming majority of Americans were happy with their coverage and were leery of any changes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">So the health care status quo prevailed again and again, but most prominently when President Clinton&#8217;s health care reform effort went down in flames in 1994. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Eventually, Democrats learned that whenever proposing changes to the health care system, they had to emphasize that the changes wouldn\u2019t affect those who already had coverage they liked&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Here's Why Obama Lied\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/heres-why-obama-said-people-could-keep-their-insurance\/article\/2538146?utm_source=DITTO%20TEMPLATE:%20Morning%20Examiner%20-%2010\/30\/2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Morning%20Examiner\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/heres-why-obama-said-people-could-keep-their-insurance\/article\/2538146?utm_source=DITTO%20TEMPLATE:%20Morning%20Examiner%20-%2010\/30\/2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Morning%20Examiner<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soooo, inquiring minds want to know, how many times <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has<\/em><\/span> The Great Prevaricator told the same lie?\u00a0 According to <em>New York Magazine<\/em>&#8216;s Dan Amira, certainly no fan of Conservatism in any way, shape or form, at least two dozen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JCUpJDzyRnY\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>But who&#8217;s counting?!?\u00a0 Certainly not the MSM.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And if you loved The Dear Misleader&#8217;s lies, you&#8217;ll certainly swoon for the utter idiocy contained in the actual bill.\u00a0 Take the mandatory maternity coverage for 32-year-old single men and post-menopausal women; as James Taranto reports&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">First, it&#8217;s not only men who are forced to buy maternity coverage they are physically incapable of using. So are women in the stage of life between childbearing age and Medicare eligibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Second, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>under-30s are exempt<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">That&#8217;s right, <em>the geniuses who wrote ObamaCare are forcing everyone to buy maternity care <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">except the age cohort that includes women at peak fertility<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We can only assume they&#8217;ll be offered maternity coverage for &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>free<\/em><\/span>&#8220;&#8230;along with their birth control and breast pumps! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, two of our favorite writers explore the gross character flaws which made Der Obafuhrer&#8217;s healthcare debacle all but inevitable; first, the\u00a0<em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s Dan Henninger explains why, in the end&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Progressive Government Fails<\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subHed deck\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Obama&#8217;s ideology is the politics of the personal cram down.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/98234652.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23383\" alt=\"98234652\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/98234652.png\" width=\"258\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A reader remarked last week that Barack Obama is running out of human shields. With the father of ObamaCare unavailable to explain the greatest fiasco of his presidency to Congress, the American people had to settle Wednesday for his surrogate, Kathleen Sebelius.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Let us try to understand clearly what is happening now with the Obama presidency. On display to everyone watching this week is not merely the failure of a federal website or a software program or Ms. Sebelius&#8217;s management skills. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>This is the failure of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>very idea<\/em><\/span> of progressive government. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Not <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>liberal<\/em><\/span> government.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Progressive<\/em><\/span> government.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That battle a few weeks ago over the government shutdown was a familiar Beltway spectacle. But what is happening this week to ObamaCare and the political class that created it is historic. Forty years from now, the millennials who in 2008 and 2012 believed in and voted for the progressive ideal\u2014limitless, mandated, state-led goodness\u2014can tell their grandchildren they watched it fall apart in 2013. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This is the glitch that failed<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the 1990s, the American left, burdened with 90 years of unfortunate left-wing metaphors, rebranded itself in the U.S. as the &#8220;progressive movement.&#8221;<\/span> Teddy Roosevelt invokes cheerier memories than Leon Trotsky.<\/strong><\/span> In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, the left rode to power with Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/honest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23386\" alt=\"honest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/honest.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/honest.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/honest-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr. Obama is, without embarrassment, a man of the left. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>American progressives saw their win with Mr. Obama as the overthrowing of the postwar Democratic liberalism that culminated with the Clintons, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a liberalism willing most of the time to coexist with markets, property and private enterprise<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Progressives <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>hated<\/em><\/span> these accommodations.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>They<\/em><\/span> were purer than that. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>He<\/em><\/span> was purer than that.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Together, they created ObamaCare<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What made ObamaCare an exemplar of progressive politics and policy is precisely what has been on view this week in news stories and the Sebelius hearing. It&#8217;s not that the health program was to be administered by the state or that it promised benefits to all. Liberalism did that for decades. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>What made it peculiarly progressive were the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mandates<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> And not just the law&#8217;s individual and business mandates to purchase their insurance. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The essence of modern Democratic progressivism is: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;You <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will<\/em><\/span> participate in what we have created for you, and you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>will<\/em><\/span> comply with the law&#8217;s demands.&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(Irrespective of whether you need drug treatment and maternity coverage or not!)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nothing could have been more crystal clear than the explanation for all the canceled insurance policies from the White House&#8217;s Jay Carney, the bland face of progressive coercion: &#8220;What the president said and what everybody said all along is that there are going to be changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act to create minimum standards of coverage, minimum services that every insurance plan has to provide. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>So it&#8217;s true that there are existing health-care plans on the individual market that don&#8217;t meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>If this White House and its progressive ecosystem have a political motto, it&#8217;s this: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Get over it<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/get_over_obama_reelection_liberals_not_over_bush.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23385\" alt=\"get_over_obama_reelection_liberals_not_over_bush\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/get_over_obama_reelection_liberals_not_over_bush-300x206.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/get_over_obama_reelection_liberals_not_over_bush-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/get_over_obama_reelection_liberals_not_over_bush.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>American progressivism is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>politics by cramdown<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ask Jamie Dimon. Ask the coal miners the EPA is putting out of business. Ask the union workers waiting for jobs on the Keystone XL pipeline. Ask <span class=\"t-company\">Boeing<\/span> <span class=\"article-chiclet up\" data-channel-path=\"\/quotes\/nls\/ba\" data-channel-last-price=\"129.66\" data-channel-currency=\"$\" data-utc-offset-hours=\"-4\" data-ticker-code=\"BA\" data-country-code=\"US\"> <span class=\"ticker\"> BA +0.02% <\/span> <\/span> in South Carolina or the harmless tea party groups from towns no one has ever heard of that were shut down by the IRS, or the 20,000 inner-city parents and students who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest obliteration of their charter schools by New York&#8217;s progressive mayoral candidate, Bill de Blasio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Up to now, most of the events of the Obama presidency have passed in and out of the news as just politics.<\/span> But with ObamaCare and its details touching so many people all at once, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it has become impossible not to recognize that the Affordable Care Act is an offensive ideological exercise, not merely an entitlement program<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> By Mr. Obama&#8217;s own admission, this law is the way he wants the world to work in the U.S.\u2014whether in health, education, energy, infrastructure or finance. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>And what Americans now riding through the ObamaCare hurricane of canceled policies, disappearing doctors and rebooted promises have to be asking themselves is: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Do I want to live with this level of personal enforcement in the U.S.<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Perhaps the better question is, will the political class help them understand what ObamaCare is, or wanted to be? <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Most Republican politicians aren&#8217;t particularly comfortable doing ideology. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">But the left <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>revels<\/em><\/span> in it. <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Mr. Obama bellows it in every speech<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">And absent someone shouting that the progressive emperor suddenly isn&#8217;t wearing any clothes, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>they will win with it again<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/polls_fail_4220_629860_poll_xlarge.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23384\" alt=\"polls_fail_4220_629860_poll_xlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/polls_fail_4220_629860_poll_xlarge.jpeg\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/polls_fail_4220_629860_poll_xlarge.jpeg 262w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/polls_fail_4220_629860_poll_xlarge-224x300.jpeg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Barack Obama may have spent a lifetime failing up, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>but eventually it&#8217;s just failure<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> He has presided over five years of sickly economic growth, inadequate job creation, a doubling of the food stamp population and now this\u2014ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Progressive government has failed in the U.S<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Most fascinating to behold will be whether the Democratic presidential candidate who follows this meltdown will embrace it, fake it or move on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8230;and the fact you eventually run out of other people&#8217;s money!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, <em>Commentary Magazine<\/em>&#8216;s Peter Wehner recounts the countless calumniations uttered over the last five years by&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/2013\/10\/30\/the-mendacious-mr-obama\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">The Mendacious Mr. Obama<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/unfinishedportrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23388\" alt=\"unfinishedportrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/unfinishedportrait.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/unfinishedportrait.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/unfinishedportrait-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&#8230;it\u2019s nearly impossible to believe that the president\u2013who is hardly a stupid or ignorant man\u2013was clueless about this despite the fact that many people in the administration knew years in advance that a large percentage of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their plans.<\/strong><\/span> Red flags had to have gone up, time and again, at least until the message was sent from on high: Don\u2019t rock the boat and don\u2019t raise objections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Remember, what we\u2019re talking about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>isn\u2019t<\/em><\/span> a minor feature of an obscure policy.<\/span> It\u2019s a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>central<\/em><\/span> component of Mr. Obama\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>signature domestic achievement<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And as the Wall Street Journal points out in <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702304200804579163541180312658\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">this editorial<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>, the Affordable Care Act is \u201cdismantling the individual insurance market, as its architects intended from the start \u2026 this month\u2019s mass cancellation wave has been the President\u2019s political goal since 2008. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Liberals believe they must destroy the market in order to save it.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-angry-compilation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23389\" alt=\"obama-angry-compilation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-angry-compilation.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-angry-compilation.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-angry-compilation-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-angry-compilation-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Different faces; same lies!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"more-835623\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Beyond that, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>it\u2019s helpful to bear in mind the characteristics of the Obama White House<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> This is the group that for weeks knowingly misled the public on the events surrounding the lethal attacks on the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi. That claimed that the Affordable Care Act was both a tax and not a tax, depending on what the circumstances required. That hatched the sequestration idea, then denied it, and then blamed Republicans for it. <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">That has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>perfected<\/em><\/span> the art of stonewalling.<\/span> That is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>lawless<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> And that ran a campaign in 2012 that was unusually vicious and dishonest, up to and including blaming Mitt Romney for the cancer death of a steelworker\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We have as president a man who routinely slanders his political opponents, distorting what they believe, even as he bemoans the lack of civility in public discourse. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>He constantly makes assertions that are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>obviously untrue<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333399;\">And it doesn\u2019t <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>matter<\/em><\/span> to him.<\/span> He keeps doing it because, at least until now, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>the media has given him something approaching a free pass<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"The Mendacious Mr. Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/2013\/10\/30\/the-mendacious-mr-obama\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #333399;\"><em><strong>http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/2013\/10\/30\/the-mendacious-mr-obama\/<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the juice; as Joe Wilson so eloquently put it&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joe-wilson-the-real-obama-lie-joe-wilson-2012-election-politics-1345052815.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23400\" alt=\"joe-wilson-the-real-obama-lie-joe-wilson-2012-election-politics-1345052815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joe-wilson-the-real-obama-lie-joe-wilson-2012-election-politics-1345052815.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joe-wilson-the-real-obama-lie-joe-wilson-2012-election-politics-1345052815.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/joe-wilson-the-real-obama-lie-joe-wilson-2012-election-politics-1345052815-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which brings us to today&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Money Quote<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, courtesy of <\/span><\/span><em>Best of the Web<\/em> and <em>Time<\/em>&#8216;s Joe Klein:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">&#8220;The President should set the tone for the way the federal government operates. <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>This<\/em><\/span> President hasn&#8217;t done that.&#8221; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the words of James Taranto, &#8220;It seems to us the problem is precisely that he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has<\/em><\/span> done that.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving on, as\u00a0<em>FOX News\u00a0<\/em>reports, submitted for your perusal, The Most Transparent Administration in History&#8217;s latest demonstration of openness in response to the investigation into the unexplained deaths of four Americans in Benghazi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Justice and State Blocking Benghazi Survivor Testimony\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/10\/31\/justice-and-state-departments-blocking-access-to-survivors-benghazi-attack\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Justice and State departments blocking access to survivors of Benghazi attack<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-clinton-deal2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23382\" alt=\"obama-clinton-deal2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-clinton-deal2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-clinton-deal2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/obama-clinton-deal2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Justice and State departments are now citing a year-old FBI investigation and a future criminal prosecution to block access to survivors of last year\u2019s Benghazi terror attack<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> In an Oct. 28 letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,the State Department\u2019s Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, Julia Frifield, refers to &#8220;significant risks&#8221; and &#8220;serious concerns about having the survivors of the attack submit to additional interviews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/10\/31\/justice-and-state-departments-blocking-access-to-survivors-benghazi-attack\/<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To which we can only reply:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23402\" alt=\"129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/129.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/129.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/129-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since we&#8217;re on the subject of guilty until proven innocent, as this forward from Jeff Foutch courtesy of Paul Bedard at the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> informs us&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"hd-font entry-title color3\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Lerner Gave Confidential Information to FEC\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/irs-lois-lerner-gave-confidential-tea-party-group-tax-info-to-fec-violating-law\/article\/2538263\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">IRS&#8217; Lois Lerner gave confidential Tea Party tax info to FEC, violating law<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lerner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23392\" alt=\"lerner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lerner-219x300.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lerner-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lerner.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Internal Revenue Service shared highly confidential tax information of several Tea Party groups in the IRS scandal with the Federal Election Commission, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>a clear violation of federal law<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span>, according to newly obtained emails.<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong> The public watchdog group Judicial Watch told Secrets Thursday that it was former scandal boss Lois Lerner who shared the information on groups including the American Future Fund and the American Issues Project.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The emails obtained by Judicial Watch show that the IRS, which was considering the tax status of the groups, gave the FEC the tax returns of the groups, including income, expenditures and staff pay. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The emails also revealed the exact working of the prying political questions the IRS wanted the groups to reveal, such as their goals and the requests for brochures and ads. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The information, sent via email, to the FEC came in response to the organization\u2019s questions about whether the IRS had granted tax-exempt status to the Tea Party groups. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It is unclear how the information the IRS sent was going to help the FEC, since the IRS hadn\u2019t determined the tax status of the groups yet.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Lerner Gave Confidential Information to FEC\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/irs-lois-lerner-gave-confidential-tea-party-group-tax-info-to-fec-violating-law\/article\/2538263\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/irs-lois-lerner-gave-confidential-tea-party-group-tax-info-to-fec-violating-law\/article\/2538263<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As contributor Jeff Foutch informed us, Eric Holder&#8217;s Department of Injustice will prosecute Lerner when&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hell-freezes-over.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23403\" alt=\"hell-freezes-over\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hell-freezes-over.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hell-freezes-over.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hell-freezes-over-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And in today&#8217;s installment of the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Environmental Moment<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, courtesy of <em>The Daily Caller<\/em>, <\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong>a bit of common sense from the Lan&#8217; Dahwn Unda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; font-weight: bold; font-size: 25px; text-align: left;\">Aussie PM: Carbon Tax is \u2018Socialism\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/polarbearschilling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23355\" alt=\"polarbearschilling\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/polarbearschilling.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/polarbearschilling.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/polarbearschilling-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Australia&#8217;s newly elected prime minister pulled no punches when giving his thoughts on the country&#8217;s carbon tax, which he says must be abolished as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>&#8220;The carbon tax is bad for the economy and it doesn&#8217;t do any good for the environment,&#8221; newly elected Prime Minister John &#8220;Tony&#8221; Abbott told The Washington Post. <span style=\"color: #003300;\">&#8220;Despite a carbon tax of $37 a ton by 2020, Australia&#8217;s domestic emissions were going up, not down.<\/span> The carbon tax was basically socialism masquerading as environmentalism, and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s going to get abolished.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;If the Labor Party wants to give the people of Australia a Christmas present, they will vote to abolish the carbon tax. It was damaging the economy without helping the environment. <span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It was a stupid tax<\/em><\/span>. <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A misconceived tax,&#8221; Abbott added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>So c&#8217;mon, America&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xn_CPrCS8gs?start=34\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131031crashbrnRGB20131031072955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23376\" alt=\"RAMclr 103113 trick IBD COLOR FINAL_800.jpg.cms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/RAMclr-103113-trick-IBD-COLOR-FINAL_800.jpg.cms_1.png\" width=\"462\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/RAMclr-103113-trick-IBD-COLOR-FINAL_800.jpg.cms_1.png 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/RAMclr-103113-trick-IBD-COLOR-FINAL_800.jpg.cms_1-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23372\" alt=\"131031crashbrnRGB20131031072955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131031crashbrnRGB20131031072955.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131031crashbrnRGB20131031072955.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/131031crashbrnRGB20131031072955-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sbr103113dAPR20131031014532.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23373\" alt=\"sbr103113dAPR20131031014532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sbr103113dAPR20131031014532.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sbr103113dAPR20131031014532.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/sbr103113dAPR20131031014532-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aria_c11320320131029120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23374\" alt=\"kn103113dAPR20131031114513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kn103113dAPR20131031114513.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kn103113dAPR20131031114513.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kn103113dAPR20131031114513-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23348\" alt=\"aria_c11320320131029120100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aria_c11320320131029120100.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aria_c11320320131029120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/aria_c11320320131029120100-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lb1030cd20131029054319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23350\" alt=\"lb1030cd20131029054319\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lb1030cd20131029054319.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lb1030cd20131029054319.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lb1030cd20131029054319-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/h56278725.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23349\" alt=\"h56278725\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/h56278725.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/h56278725.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/h56278725-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/h95127495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23377\" alt=\"h95127495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/h95127495.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/h95127495.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/h95127495-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then there&#8217;s one of more perfect depictions of abortion we&#8217;ve ever seen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/abortion_evil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23347\" alt=\"abortion_evil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/abortion_evil.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/abortion_evil.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/abortion_evil-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a week with yet another sordid story ripped from the pages of the Crime Blotter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" id=\"yui_3_9_1_1_1383268551229_344\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Woman arrested with drug-filled Halloween pumpkins<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cocaine-pumpkins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23394\" alt=\"cocaine-pumpkins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cocaine-pumpkins.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cocaine-pumpkins.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cocaine-pumpkins-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A woman arriving at Montreal&#8217;s airport was handed over to Canadian federal police on Thursday after a search of her luggage found cocaine stashed inside Halloween pumpkins. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The pumpkins seemed heavy, so we decided to run them through an X-ray machine and the drugs were found in bags inside the pumpkins<\/em><\/span>,&#8221; Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman Jacqueline Roby told AFP.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>In a statement, the agency described the case as an &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>unusual seizure in this day of Halloween<\/em><\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Makes sense to us; after all, it&#8217;s not like they grow pumpkins in Canada!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/maxresdefault1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23396\" alt=\"maxresdefault\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/maxresdefault1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/maxresdefault1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/maxresdefault1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6a00d83451f25369e2017c36bf19d4970b-800wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23397\" alt=\"6a00d83451f25369e2017c36bf19d4970b-800wi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6a00d83451f25369e2017c36bf19d4970b-800wi-300x230.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6a00d83451f25369e2017c36bf19d4970b-800wi-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/6a00d83451f25369e2017c36bf19d4970b-800wi.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;never mind!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, November 1st, 2013&#8230;but before we kick off the first edition of November, here&#8217;s another bit of deliberate misrepresentation so rank it could only come from the bowels of MSDNC: Honesty&#8230;and the Clintons&#8230;in one sentence!\u00a0 Yeah&#8230; That would depend upon what your definition&#8230; &#8230;of &#8220;honesty&#8221; is.\u00a0 A lot of words come to mind when 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