{"id":23518,"date":"2013-11-07T21:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=23518"},"modified":"2013-11-07T22:49:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T03:49:48","slug":"the-daily-gouge-friday-november-8th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=23518","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge, Friday, November 8th, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, November 8th, 2007&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up on the last edition of the week, a quick assessment of the veracity of The Dear Misleader&#8217;s monotonously mendacious&#8230;&#8221;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>mis<\/em><\/span>pronouncements&#8221;:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ciesAzdCQgU\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>As the great Stilton Jarlsberg notes in the latest installment of <em>Hope n&#8217; Change<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23523\" alt=\"obama1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And if he repeatedly lied&#8230;and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>continues<\/em><\/span> to lie&#8230;about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>, how many <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other<\/em><\/span> skeletons of palterings-past may reside in his closet?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23524\" alt=\"obama2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama2-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Likely thousands of times more than these elderly opponents of the Unaffordable Care Act can count&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sandymartindale1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23553\" alt=\"sandymartindale\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sandymartindale1.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;at least while they&#8217;re otherwise engaged in thanking Der Obafuhrer for ruining what&#8217;s left of their lives.\u00a0 Hat tip to Sandy Martindale for the dissatisfied O-Bomb-a-care customers.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item,\u00a0<em>Commentary Magazine<\/em>&#8216;s Peter Wehner, though still exhibiting the same inexplicable inability of many otherwise-intelligent Conservatives to call this President a liar, is beginning&#8230;just <em>beginning<\/em>, mind you&#8230;to bring himself to admit what the rest of us have known since 2006:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Barack Obama\u2019s Multiplying Deceptions<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obamaobamacareclintonandobamalaughingoverlies1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23559\" alt=\"obamaobamacareclintonandobamalaughingoverlies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obamaobamacareclintonandobamalaughingoverlies1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obamaobamacareclintonandobamalaughingoverlies1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obamaobamacareclintonandobamalaughingoverlies1-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>It was, I think, the most brazenly mendacious claim an American president has told since Bill Clinton\u2019s finger-wagging insistence\u00a0that \u201cI did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>I have in mind Barack Obama\u2019s statement, made earlier this week, in which he said this: \u201cNow, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, <i><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what we said was you can keep it if it hasn\u2019t changed since the law passed<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> (Emphasis added.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">That is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span>, in fact, what the president said.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Not by a country mile<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama-you-lie_thumb71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23560\" alt=\"obama-you-lie_thumb[7]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama-you-lie_thumb71.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama-you-lie_thumb71.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/obama-you-lie_thumb71-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What Mr. Obama actually said, dozens of times, is a variation of what he said during a speech to the American Medical Association on June 15, 2009: \u201cThat means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health-care plan, you\u2019ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>No one<\/em><\/span> will take it away, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>no matter what<\/em><\/span>.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">But Mr. Obama is not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill fabulist. <strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">It appears as if he\u2019s in the process of becoming an inveterate one.<\/span><\/strong> He was, after all, building one untruth upon another. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>I say that because by now it\u2019s obvious to nearly everyone, including liberals, that the president and his aides knew that when he made his initial claim that under the Affordable Care Act you will be able to keep your health-care plan \u201cno matter what\u201d\u2013that you would keep it \u201cperiod\u201d\u2013<em>he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">knew<\/span> the assertion was false<\/em>.<\/strong><\/span> Yet he repeated it over and over again. (I\u2019d urge you to watch <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a title=\"You Can Keep Your Plan\" href=\"http:\/\/videos.nymag.com\/video\/If-You-Like-Your-Plan-Supercut#c=J63WKQ1LRXWQ03RL&amp;t=%22If%20You%20Like%20Your%20Plan...%22%20Supercut\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">this short video<\/span><\/a><\/strong> <\/span>produced by <i>New York<\/i> magazine, which is a montage of Obama quotes claiming \u201cyou can keep your plan no matter what.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The last six weeks have been brutal ones for the Obama presidency. And I\u2019m guessing that the damage that\u2019s been inflicted will not be transitory. All the failures surrounding the Affordable Care Act\u2013from the disastrous rollout of the federal health-care exchanges, to sticker shock surrounding premiums and deductibles, to the jolting realization that millions of people are now being forced out of health-care plans they like (with millions more to follow)\u2013has likely left an indelible mark of incompetence on Mr. Obama. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>He looks like nothing so much as a community organizer who is totally overmatched by events.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">(&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Looks<\/em><\/span>&#8221; like?!?)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-1383829451886.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23561\" alt=\"wpid-1383829451886\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-1383829451886-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-1383829451886-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-1383829451886-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/wpid-1383829451886.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That would be injurious enough. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>But now you can add to the mix the shattering of Mr. Obama\u2019s credibility; the belief among a growing number of his fellow citizens that he cannot be trusted, that he will corrupt words in order to advance his ways.<\/strong><\/span> Those character defects would be troubling enough in, say, a state senator. They are much more problematic to find in an American president. It\u2019s all very discouraging.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mary McCarthy once said of the playwright Lillian Hellman, \u201c[E]very word she writes is a lie, including `and\u2019 and `the.\u2019\u201d Mr. Obama isn\u2019t at that point yet. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>But he\u2019s closer than he thinks.<\/strong><\/span> And unless he puts an end to his multiplying deceptions, Barack Obama\u2019s presidency will not only lie in ruins; his reputation will as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Pete, he&#8217;s closer than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span> think.\u00a0 In fact, he&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">there<\/span>; and from what <em>we<\/em> can tell,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>has<\/em><\/span> been there the better part of his life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more on The Obamao&#8217;s almost limitless capacity for dissimulation, we turn to this video montage forwarded by Bill Meisen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kg9m1F8B2_c\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, unless someone gets hit by a bus, deliberate dissimulation will headline the Dimocratic ticket in 2016:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mind-Over-What-Does-It-Matter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23563\" alt=\"Mind-Over-What-Does-It-Matter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mind-Over-What-Does-It-Matter.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mind-Over-What-Does-It-Matter.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Mind-Over-What-Does-It-Matter-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of countries once-awash in wealth bankrupting themselves in the course of &#8220;spreading the wealth&#8221; (excepting of course that possessed by the political and cultural elites!), this just in from South of the Border:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Venezuela&#039;s health care collapse\" href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/V\/VENEZUELA_SICK_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-11-06-00-10-00\" class=\"broken_link\"><span class=\"headline entry-title\" style=\"color: #800080;\">Doctors say Venezuela&#8217;s health care in collapse<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Obama_Chavez_2009_April.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23562\" alt=\"Obama_Chavez_2009_April\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Obama_Chavez_2009_April.jpg\" width=\"399\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Obama_Chavez_2009_April.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Obama_Chavez_2009_April-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>&#8230;The country&#8217;s 1999 constitution guarantees free universal health care to Venezuelans, who sit on the world&#8217;s largest proven oil reserves.<\/strong><\/span> President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government insists it&#8217;s complying. Yet of the country&#8217;s 100 fully functioning public hospitals, nine in 10 have just 7 percent of the supplies they need, Natera said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The other nearly 200 public hospitals that existed when Chavez took office were largely replaced by a system of walk-in clinics run by Cuban doctors that have won praise for delivering preventative care to the neediest but do not treat serious illnesses.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Venezuela&#039;s health care collapse\" href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/V\/VENEZUELA_SICK_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-11-06-00-10-00\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/V\/VENEZUELA_SICK_HEALTH_CARE?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2013-11-06-00-10-00<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming soon to a country near <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>you<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mrz110613dAPR20131106034528.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23549\" alt=\"mrz110613dAPR20131106034528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mrz110613dAPR20131106034528.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mrz110613dAPR20131106034528.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/mrz110613dAPR20131106034528-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131105cheapdateRGB20131105104738.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23541\" alt=\"131105cheapdateRGB20131105104738\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131105cheapdateRGB20131105104738.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131105cheapdateRGB20131105104738.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/131105cheapdateRGB20131105104738-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lb1105cd201311040944111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23548\" alt=\"lb1105cd20131104094411\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lb1105cd201311040944111.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lb1105cd201311040944111.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lb1105cd201311040944111-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sk110613dAPR20131106024519.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23551\" alt=\"sk110613dAPR20131106024519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sk110613dAPR20131106024519.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sk110613dAPR20131106024519.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sk110613dAPR20131106024519-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/holb_c11338320131106120100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23546\" alt=\"holb_c11338320131106120100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/holb_c11338320131106120100.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/holb_c11338320131106120100.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/holb_c11338320131106120100-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gmc11341320131106081600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23545\" alt=\"gmc11341320131106081600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gmc11341320131106081600.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gmc11341320131106081600.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gmc11341320131106081600-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hBA99FDE2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23547\" alt=\"KeepIt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/KeepIt.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/KeepIt.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/KeepIt-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23567\" alt=\"00-01-2013-Daily\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110813.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110813.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/110813-300x109.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23539\" alt=\"hBA99FDE2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hBA99FDE2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hBA99FDE2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hBA99FDE2-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hF3EE8D11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23540\" alt=\"hF3EE8D11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hF3EE8D11.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hF3EE8D11.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/hF3EE8D11-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And as Carl Polizzi notes&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/carlpolizzi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23538\" alt=\"carlpolizzi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/carlpolizzi.jpg\" width=\"492\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/carlpolizzi.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/carlpolizzi-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, we&#8217;ll call it a week with yet two more signs The Apocalypse is Upon Us; first, courtesy of the always-pandering Progressive Party&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Senate OKs gay rights bill banning discrimination, measure heads to House<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gay-Rights-Senate_Cawl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23531\" alt=\"Gay Rights Senate_Cawl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gay-Rights-Senate_Cawl.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gay-Rights-Senate_Cawl.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gay-Rights-Senate_Cawl-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Six douches and a dyke!<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u00a0The Senate approved a bill Thursday outlawing workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. The bill, which passed by a vote of 64-32, will now go to the Republican-controlled House where it faces an uphill battle and may not even come up for a vote.\u00a0 House Speaker John Boehner has said he opposes the legislation..<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>&#8220;It is time for Congress to pass a federal law that ensures all our citizens &#8211; regardless of where they live &#8211; can go to work unafraid to be who they are,&#8221; said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who urged Boehner, R-Ohio, to reconsider his opposition.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The enthusiasm of the bill&#8217;s supporters was tempered by the reality that the Republican-led House, where conservatives have a firm grip on the agenda, is unlikely to even vote on the legislation. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Boehner has maintained his longstanding opposition to the measure, arguing that it is unnecessary and certain to create costly, frivolous lawsuits for businesses.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>And here we thought the Constitution already afforded <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>every<\/em><\/span> American such protection; that&#8217;s what we get for thinking&#8230;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>again<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Second, this week&#8217;s finalist for the title of Idiot on Parade:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"r1PostCPBlock\" style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; position: absolute; left: -99999px;\">ESPN Analyst: \u2018Star Spangled Banner\u2019 a \u2018War Anthem,\u2019 Shouldn\u2019t Be Played Before Games<br \/>\nRead more at <a style=\"color: #003399;\" href=\"http:\/\/patriotupdate.com\/2013\/11\/espn-analyst-star-spangled-banner-war-anthem-shouldnt-played-games\/#PIsbOmPK97QDZXDi.99\">http:\/\/patriotupdate.com\/2013\/11\/espn-analyst-star-spangled-banner-war-anthem-shouldnt-played-games\/#PIsbOmPK97QDZXDi.99<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"content_0_headlineimage_0_h1Headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">ESPN Analyst: &#8216;Star Spangled Banner&#8217; a &#8216;War Anthem,&#8217; Shouldn&#8217;t Be Played Before Games <\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOsFIt_THtQ\" height=\"235\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>We vehemently disagree with what he said, but would defend to the death his right to say it.\u00a0 Okay, we&#8217;re <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>well<\/em><\/span> past <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> point; to be honest, we&#8217;d shoot him, along with the rest of his fellow travelers, on our way to the front!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, November 8th, 2007&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge! First up on the last edition of the week, a quick assessment of the veracity of The Dear Misleader&#8217;s monotonously mendacious&#8230;&#8221;mispronouncements&#8221;: As the great Stilton Jarlsberg notes in the latest installment of Hope n&#8217; Change: And if he repeatedly lied&#8230;and continues to lie&#8230;about this, how many other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23518"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23568,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23518\/revisions\/23568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}