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" We mentioned the other day that former world-historical change agent Scott Brown was wandering around Iowa, importuning strangers to watch videos of him from 2010 on his telephone. Well, it seems he got in touch with one of his favorite fluffers from his local fanzine, and McDreamy seems to be convinced that there are precincts from Cape Ann that have not yet reported their results from the last election. Warren has spent her first year in the U.S. Senate grandstanding at committee hearings and the Senate floor and blasting out emails of her video performances to supporters and the media. She delivered a speech yesterday in Washington to Americans for Financial Reform - talk about a friendly audience. But where is Warren on the disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act? Why isn&amp;#039;t she giving more speeches to her constituents on issues like health care? Here&amp;#039;s some not-so-friendly advice from the man she defeated, former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown. &amp;quot;She needs to help Massachusetts get out of this Obamacare mess,&amp;quot; Brown told the Herald in a text. OK, set up. Annnnnd, punchline! Brown gave a speech last night in Iowa, where he is building his own possible White House campaign. The speech was to the Ronald Reagan Dinner in Bettendorf, a place that is just like Massachusetts, except not. I saw the same look on her face again last night when I was packing for this trip. She said, &amp;quot;Why on earth are you going to Bettendorf in November?&amp;quot; All I could think to say was, &amp;quot;Honey, they&amp;#039;ve got a big casino there and, as you know, I&amp;#039;m not afraid to roll the dice.&amp;quot; By the time we were done talking about why I should spend more time in Iowa, I had my wife half-convinced that Scott County was named for me. We&amp;#039;ll just have to see where all this leads - that&amp;#039;s my attitude. And here&amp;#039;s a little tip for Iowa political observers: You&amp;#039;ll know things are serious when I show up in my pickup truck. Oh, dear mother of god, he&amp;#039;s actually thinking about it. And yes, for anyone keeping track, that American-made GMC Canyon of mine has 276,000 miles on it. And lately I&amp;#039;ve been using it for short hauls, including trips to the Fox News studio. If you&amp;#039;re a regular Fox viewer, maybe you&amp;#039;ve even seen me filling in as host on The O&amp;#039;Reilly Factor. I was a little nervous at first, but now I&amp;#039;m pretty proud of it: Who else can say that he has served as the replacement for both Bill O&amp;#039;Reilly and Ted Kennedy? Scott Brown -- America&amp;#039;s Seat Warmer. However, he has learned from his misbegotten Vote For Me Because I&amp;#039;m A Dick 2012 campaign. A lot of the speech was about his up-from-poverty upbringing, and about how poverty made him a Republican, and that&amp;#039;s some really good stuff, as I have said, over and over again. The problem is that he can&amp;#039;t disentangle himself from the mythological aspects of the freak election he won in 2010. The only time that he ran a full campaign, and against an opponent who wasn&amp;#039;t an ice sculpture, he got his ass kicked. He should stop talking about what happened in 2010 as though the entire world pivoted that year. But he doesn&amp;#039;t get really clumsy until he starts telling the hay-shakers how much he has in common with their favorite radio and teevee stars.  Against all the abuses that come with the expansion of federal power, let us be the ones who ask the fundamental questions: Since when can a president ignore or rewrite acts of Congress as he sees fit, as this president has done?  By what principle are so many small-business owners and farmers at the complete mercy of the EPA, to be ordered around and sometimes run out of business?  Where does the NSA get off tracking pretty much everybody, in surveillance programs that have quickly gone from credible to creepy?  By what right does the IRS target groups unfavored by the federal establishment? The answer to all these questions is the same: None of this is anywhere near defensible in a free society.   And victimology. As you know, unlimited government brings unlimited conflict, because freedom is so often at stake, and this is what we&amp;#039;re seeing today. The Senate majority bends the rules to its purposes, with no respect for the opposition. (Ed. Note: Are you fking high?)  The president has redefined &amp;quot;divisive&amp;quot; as disagreeing with him. Too many in the press corps play right along, so that coverage of major debates can seem like a rigged game where conservatives are always set up to look bad.  (Yeah, that Louie Gohmert is a misunderstood genius.) And now it&amp;#039;s time to show that we&amp;#039;ve read ourselves a little Chris Matthews. She told me about when her husband was shot and how Speaker O&amp;#039;Neill had come to the hospital when the president was out of surgery. The speaker had slipped into the recovery room and by himself began reciting the 23rd psalm. Hearing &amp;quot;the Lord is my shepherd . . . ,&amp;quot; the president joined in and, holding hands, they prayed together. When they finished, Mrs. Reagan told me that the speaker said, &amp;quot;Mr. President, I love you, the country loves you, please get well.&amp;quot; And then they all went home and sold missiles to the mullahs. He&amp;#039;s stuck, the way they all are. He has to be good ol&amp;#039; Scott Brown, truck-drivin&amp;#039; man of conciliation. And he has to be Rand Paul in a barn-coat. This is because his party is insane. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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