Regarding Marc Ambinder’s thoughts posted below, Mickey Kaus somewhat persuasively picks apart what he’s saying. Read the whole thing, but eventually Kaus declares — “If Ambinder were any easier to spin, he’d be a dreidl.”

I will say that, while I think Ambinder means well and there are far worse reporters out there, he kind of blew his credibility to analyze the health-care debate over the weekend on Twitter, when he wrote:

Do read Steven Pearlstein on health insurance reform. It’s a thoughtful, pro-reform, canard debunking piece.

When it comes to characterizing a Washington Post op-ed describing opponents health care as “political terrorists, willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems” well, “thoughtful” is way down on the list of adjectives that come to mind.