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I had a dream last night -- well, a nightmare, actually -- in which the debt ceiling ruckus insidiously morphed into a replay of the battle over healthcare reform. There was John Boehner, declaiming on the House floor, channeling Winston Churchill to express his party's opposition to raising taxes on the rich ("whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!") and then, without missing a beat, the speaker launched into an attack on Obama's socialist takeover of the healthcare system. No, no, I moaned, I already lived through 2009, I can't do this again! Let the courts decide the fate of "Obamacare," or the 2012 election. The debt...