*note:  OFA supporters calling in to conservative talk shows must at all costs avoid logical arguments, statements of fact, and rational debate.  Stick to emotional appeals like “my grandma has to wear her dead sister’s dentures” and “the insurance companies would only pay for the top half of my prosthetic leg“.  If you get scared or confused, start throwing around the word “racist“.  In case of emergency, call the conservative host a Nazi and hang up.   

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So, to be clear, Martha Coakley lost in Massachusetts because:

1. The American people don’t think the pace of change is fast enough; AND
2. The American people are resistant to change.

We don’t want it at all, but we do want it quickly. Got it.

UPDATE: Howard Dean gives Chris Matthews an equally inane explanation. (Via Allahpundit.)

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Which will you pledge your alleigance to?

“Organizing for America”:  just what sort of America are they organizing for?  Evidently one without dissenting voices like Sarah Palin.  From the Organizing For America mass email:

On Tuesday, Palin went on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show where she outrageously — and falsely — suggested that Americans could “face jail time as punishment” if they don’t buy insurance.

Falsely suggested that Americans could face jail time for not buying insurance?  Perhaps Palin was getting her information from the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee website (for some reason there is a normal version of this website, and a Republican version…I guess our illustrious leaders can’t even stand sharing the same space in the informational ether):

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT letter  makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

Whatever else you might want to say about Sarah Palin, her claims are hardly outrageous and false.  Far more disturbing is the Obama administration’s persistent efforts to distort the truth and destroy their political enemies.

The likely reason Organizing For America thinks they can get away with this vitriolic attack on Palin: it seems that technically, the punishment does not come directly from the act of not buying health insurance, but from not paying the tax that will be assessed on people who do not buy health insurance.  Is Sarah Palin wrong?  Only from the point of view lawyers obsessed with technicalities, truth-bending and the destruction of common sense.

If Sarah Palin is such an irrelevant, unemployed “Facebooker,” then why am I receiving emails about her from an address that has regularly sent messages directly from, or on behalf of, President Barack Obama?

UPDATE: Atomic Fungus has more.

I received David Plouffe’s email at 5:23 PM, and followed the link to the video for the first time at about 6:45. I know that with a few more hours this could be greatly improved, but there’s something about posting a spoof within a few hours of the original…

UPDATE: Here’s the original–

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