Sam Stein

Our colleague Jonathan Cohn had an article the other night about what the cuts to USAID mean for the Ebola fight in Africa, and it is substantial.

That was the front line of our resistance to Ebola in 2014.

It is just not there because it was cut.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I don't think it's unfair to say that in the effort to save his own political fortunes, the failed effort to save his own political fortunes, Bill Cassidy's vote for AFK Jr.

killed people.

It absolutely killed people.

And so he has to live with that for the rest of his life.

And whether he can go YOLO for seven months, great.

Have at it.

But that doesn't absolve the damage that has been done and the people whose lives have been lost because of the decisions that he made.

You don't need to be too concerned.

According to Jonathan, who's much more than me.

Look, this is a serious outbreak.

This is the third most pernicious Ebola outbreak in history, and this is only a couple weeks in.

So this is nothing to scoff at.

Fortunately, the disease spreads in ways that you have to have

I don't want to get too technical, but you just got to get in touch with the saliva and the blood and all that stuff.