COMEDY, THEN AND NOW: Then was better.

IT WAS A LIE and we all knew it. But it was for your own good that we lied.

And we'll push back the employer mandate enrollment until it's too late for you to do anything about it.

BUT IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO APPLY TO US: Democratic Hill staffers complain about ObamaCare.

Tough. You bought it, you paid for it, you own it. Now live with it.

UPDATE (& bump): Gold-plated Hell.

"IF YOU LIKE YOUR HEALTH CARE PLAN, you can can't keep it. Period."

BREAKING NEWS: The Tea Party dates back to 1963.

MORE: "I had no idea Lee Harvey Oswald was a Tea Party Republican."

ARRIVING UNION STATION: India sends technology team to fix HealthCare.gov.

From my email.

NOT A GOOD SIGN:

DELUSION OF LOGIC: the 'reality world' writ large.

WAS THE OBAMACARE 2015 ENROLLMENT PUSHBACK a ploy to hide higher premiums? Of course. Just as disabling the 'anonymous shopper' feature in the current Healthcare.gov web site is designed to hide sticker shock.

THREE GUESSES; the first two don't count: What kind of person disses the Batkid?

DUKE LACROSSE LIAR now has a new title: convicted murderer. Have any of Duke University's Group of 88 commented on the conviction of their cause célèbre?

PRESIDENT OBAMA sees ‘silver linings’ in economic clouds. "He also sees unicorns in the Rose Garden, elves in the Oval Office, and Faeries under his bed."

OBAMA DEMANDS Americans give up liberty to prop up ObamaCare.

But of course the rules only apply to little people....

AUTUMN LEAVES VII: Here's the last photo in this year's 'Autumn Leaves' series until the first snow (which may be soon if the weather forecasts are even remotely correct).

Even the trees in the back have begun to surrender to the inevitable, with only a few 'bitter clingers' still hanging on. Last week's photo is here.

Down the street, the 'bitter clingers' are having better success, but are finally succumbing to winter. Here they are today:

Only last week they were still mostly green but by midweek the change was well underway.

Winter is enroute. Today's high (48 degrees) has already passed and the winds are already picking up speed as the cold front moves in.

AT LEAST Jimmy Carter was a micromanager. Obama lacks even that dubious distinction.

RHETORIC DOESN’T KILL PRESIDENTS. Leftists who don’t like people with differing opinions do.