Thanks, Michael Perry

Many thanks, Michael.  I'll bear that in mind in future.

Incidentally, Mike Dorf has interesting observations on the Stupak Amendment over on today's DoL. 

Somewhat relatedly, listening to Dennis Kucinich on Democracy Now this morning -- a Congressman and a program, respectively, that I often but not always admire -- it occurred to me that the Dems sometimes face their own version of the Republicans' Taliban problem. 

The principal difference, I suppose, is that it's not so much "blowback" in the Dems' case as it is in the Repubs'.  For the Dems' "base" does not seem ever to have been so apolitical as to have had to be aroused by manipulative appeal to their ugliest passions.

Thanks again,

Bob