Dim Bulb: Michael Tomasky

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Who: The Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky What: He wrote yesterday, ridiculing conservatives for lamenting freedoms lost under Obama. “[T]his ‘freedom’ business is simply paranoid and delusional. I defy anyone to name for me a specific and precise freedom that Obama has taken away from the American people. You can’t.”

Why it’s dim: Here’s one freedom that has disappeared: Freedom to purchase a high-deductible health insurance plan. Here’s another, which is alluded to in the Constitution: Running a business in accordance with Catholic doctrine. Under Obamacare, that will be punishable by a fine.

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