Jason Furman is smart, principled, honest, and very well-informed. He also helped lead the idea-based and fact-based challenge to the completely disingenuous so-called reform of Social Security proposed by George Bush.

Now that Jason is on the Obama economic team, reporters for the MSM should compare and contrast Jason and the rest of that team with the McCain team, with particular focus on the record of what McCain actually supported -- starting with social security, where, like the Bush Administration, the record is none too savory.