No deem and pass for Obamacare? The implications, regrettably, are unfunny

Democrats dropped their scheme plan to employ a deem and pass strategy for Obamacare Saturday after former president Bill Clinton posed a simple question: "What does the word deem mean?"

The question reminded longtime Washington inmates of Clinton's statement during impeachment hearings that he was puzzled about "what the meaning of the word is is" more than a decade ago. Clinton was subsequently impeached by the House, which pretends to oppose Oval Office carousing, but was not convicted by the Senate, which has no such pretensions.

Besides, Clinton's former playmate, Monica Lewinsky, has since graduated from the London School of Economics, and members of the U.S. Congress are terrified that she might embarrass them by pointing out the outlandishness of the numbers they routinely use to sell bad legislation, like Obamacare.

It could not be determined immediately what impact the trashing of deem and pass will have on congressional plans to deem a birth certificate for Barack Obama and to deem a witness to his presence as a student at Columbia University.