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It looks like the American people have been cheated out of a precious teachable moment. Demonstrating their ability to think two moves ahead, something their Republican opponents seem incapable of, the Democratic leadership has decided to stop dancing around the threat to issue a trillion dollar coin. The Treasury Department, Saturday, finally issued a flat out denial.

Pity. Daring them to do it would have been the perfect tool to demonstrate that the emperor has no clothes.

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