Ultraliberals are breaking ranks with the president on the right of Medicaid recipients to sue to “enforce their right to care – and to challenge Medicaid cuts being made by states around the country.” Times reporter Robert Pear wrote up that story – without the “ultraliberal” part. In fact, the lawsuit-backing liberals were described only as “influential Democrats."
The brief was filed by seven influential Democrats, including Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, an architect of Medicaid; Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader; Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate majority leader; and Senator Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman of the Finance Committee.
The lifetime ACU ratings of this grouping: Waxman (4), Pelosi (2.5), Reid (17.9), and Baucus (14). By the media’s standards, anyone who’s not in single digits is a “moderate,” but any Republican above 80 percent would obviously be a “conservative.”
Pear's piece included no one to the right of the Obama Justice Department for a critique of the Waxman-Pelosi brief. No Republicans or conservative experts were apparently needed for expert consultation.
The Daily Kos blog boldly compared the lawsuit-backing liberals to Martin Luther King...and Martin Luther.
A lefty blogger at Firedoglake points out that Waxman has openly suggested to Obama that he's too weak toward the Republicans.
