Steve, Klein is as sharp as he is wrong, so it was a bummer to see this pair of posts come from him. Ezra in the A.M. tells his progressive friends not to fret — the already-progressive health-care bill will only get more progressive, since its

“. . .exchanges, regulations and subsidies will also create the core structure of a universal health-care system in this country, which should be comforting to progressives who look to the improvements in Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid and CHIP and the EITC and know that the history of American social policy is that, in general, we build on our imperfect foundations and make them stronger and fairer over time.“

Then, by lunch time, Klein can only shake his head soberly at the National Review’s “pretensions to being intellectually serious and fair-minded on these matters.”

Well, how’s this for serious? Because I’ve got a choice word or two about how it is for “stronger and fairer over time.”