As I wrote in response to an article criticizing Ezra a few years ago:

Not to mention, Ezra is bright the way Matt Yglesias is bright -- these kids can romp from medicare to politics to foreign policy to economics to science and back again without missing a beat. I spent days with them and others their age at the Democratic convention in Boston in 2004 and I was just awed by their talent. They are the future. We are lucky to have them on our side.

We can B*tch & moan all we want about those dirty, rotten, lying Republicans, but it's the Democrats losing the fight more than the R's winning it.

Security & terrorism were the biggest issues in 2004, and Bush owned it. All Kerry had to do was to make a statement like, "Elect me and I won't pussyfoot around with Bin Laden like Bush is doing; I'll find him and rip his heart out through his mouth with my bare hands if that's what it takes......and love every minute doing it!"

It even led to some AVATAR crew member to write him an open letter, defending the film.

Most of it is explained by some on-going, probably mostly one-sided, feud Faraci has with Fox.

Instead of real health care reform, a small group of conservative Democrats in the House and Senate are working with Republicans in a bid to tax the same health benefits union members made countless concessions for, while dropping the public option that would lower the skyrocketing health care costs that are keeping many working people up late at night.
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We have been promised that when push came to shove, the Blue Dogs would join their fellow Democrats and stand by working people.

Push has come to shove. And from the way things now stand, union members feel deceived.

Due to this, my union, the Sheet Metal Workers International Association (SMWIA), has decided to suspend all financial and intangible campaign activity in support of every political candidate until real health care reform is passed.  FDL

Are you paying ... a lot of attention? A little attention? Or not very much attention? ...to the debate over health care?

Furthermore, the statements by Obama and the State Department were singularly lacking in strength and outrage.

Perhaps you might change your mind if you look at the pictures of the terrorist going home as a hero. He committed mass murder and spent like 11 days per person in jail.

There was no justice for the victims. Zero. They were traded to a state sponsor of terrorism for oil.

Moreover, I've never seen that kind of Scottish compassion for a home grown terrorist or an Irish bomber.

The one thing that I didn't catch on my first read through this is that Jerome is doubly covered - private insurance through his employer PLUS the basic coverage provided by the state.