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I've learned a new phrase this week, and from two oddly similar sources, TO SHRED. 

The oldest Day-Lawson offspring, Warren, used it in this manner: "Little Feat are old guys that SHRED." Last night on Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, Ms. Spelling used it in relation to snowboarding, which her very J.A.P. self was going to have no part of,upon clearing the bunny slope guided by a .. guide: " I shredded that!"

Now my turn, ( Kyle, the fast learner) Lawrence O'Donnel just SHREDDED Joe Scarborough on MORNING JOE. No ifs, ands or buts about it. Mr. Scarborough, who I happen to enjoy, lies shredded.

Joe has written this book , THE LAST BEST HOPE, on the future of conservatism. None other than the deposed prince of all that is conservative ,Christopher Buckley, has anointed Mr. Scarborough the future of the GOP. When you work for a media company it is easy to get your book and name out there, so the airwaves have been heavy with Joe and Joe's book this week. Morning Joe, ( which is just THE BEST news show on tv right now, think OVERNIGHT.. circa 1984) has been bringing on different guests to debate Joe all week long , all starting with " I LOVED THE BOOK".... which its his show, why not be nice. 

Lawrence O'Donnel came on and said : " The entire premise of your book is false, there is no such thing as a conservative America anymore, and there has not been since F.D.R. The Conservative Movement has lost every battle it has ever taken on:

• slavery
• giving women the vote
• social security
• medicare/medicaid
• clean air and clean water acts

Respond Joe........."

A little gape mouthed Joe , who is a very smart guy, did his normal song and dance. If the Cheney -Bush mantra was noun /verb/9-11, then the Conservative movement is noun/verb/Ronald Reagan. Both of which seem a little silly in a time with real world problems need  to be solved. Shredded.

The major debate of the show this morning , before and after Mr. O'Donnell was the coming WHITE HOUSE push on health care. Mika and Chuck Todd were somewhat agreeing with the Obama White House, Joe and dinosaur in waiting, Judd Gregg ( a morning WTF moment) were all about NO! NO! NO!. 

Mica: " Something, anything, has to be done . Let's learn from this banking crisis and not wait till we are in full crisis mode to address this topic"

Joe: " spend no more money! Ronald Reagan."

The question I would have asked Mssers Scarborough and Greggasauraus is " what is your limit to the number of sick and dying you are willing to step over while walking the streets of NYC or Washington." The number is now about one or two per mile. Really, any more homeless and we stop going down that street. Fixing health care IS NOT HARD. 

• If a woman is poor, or just not super rich,  and gives birth to a child less than 8.5 months old, you take it home and watch it die. It is MUCH to expensive to take care of these way preemie babies
• If you have ever smoked one cigarette in your life, and again, are not super rich, you go home and lie in bed and die of your various cancers
• If you are fat, living on cheetos and pizza and get sick from it , again : tough. Not my problem.

You want a solution to the health care crisis, there is is. Now Mr. Politician, get elected or re elected saying these things. Good Luck with that, BUT , we will have spent much less money!  and will be able to buy more war planes and bombs and such, Ronald Reagan. Or we can address the situation , using every tool available, and come up with a solution that works for all civilized Americans... Ronald Reagan.

The kyle+blog... brewed by Wegman's brand Colombian coffee, and evidently a little too much this morning.