Yes. I also wanted to add something about the phenomenon of keyboard-complaint-cum-faux-activism. The phenomenon of liberals (like many academics; liberals and academics are also very distinct as I actually see very little of what I would call progressivism in the academy) declaring this or that as a "deal-breaker" is not simply an exercise in delusions of self-importance.  Rather, in my view, it involves an extraordinary failure to grasp the sheer enormity and complexity of the worlds around us and in which we live.  Economic and social interactions on a global scale are so vast and complex that even with the vaunted and classified technology that lies at the heart of the FISA dustup, we are still, and very obviously, in the analogous situation of doing brain surgery with carpentry tools (or lasers and the latest imaging technologies, for that matter). And the same goes for politics--like the biological universe we are destroying.  The scene is so vast, so complex, so awe-inspiring, that the single-issue voter like the single-issue blogger-enthusiast is nothing but an isolated monad or mote of dust in the maelstrom.  To not see this complexity is to be willfully stupid.  Catching glimpses of such enormity, besides ensuring perpetual humility (as well as humiliation), also reminds how extraordinary it is when single individuals actually do "change the world" through their words or deeds.  But, we all want to be heroes right? We need more people telling us--a la American Idol--that we can't sing. Then we might focus--and actually work towards the day we envision.