Good morning, all.

Michael Gerson of the Washington Post wants you to believe Sen. Saxby Chambliss and six other Senate colleagues are holding African AIDS victims hostage for the sake of politics. In an essay he penned yesterday, Gerson argues that The Coburn Seven (a group of senators including Chambliss headed by Sen. Tom Coburn) are blocking reauthorization of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

In a way, that’s true. But not really new.