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Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) is the target of left wing groups who accuse him of putting insurance company interests ahead of the public's.

From the Politico

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) may have brought Democrats as close as they have been in years to enacting health care reform, but grass-roots progressives consider him their No. 1 target.

Democracy for America and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee conducted a four-day, online poll of their members, and with about 64,000 votes cast, Baucus beat seven other Democratic senators as the lawmaker whose arm is most in need of twisting over health care reform. 

And so on Wednesday, an ad will begin airing in Montana charging Baucus with choosing monied interests over average voters who want the public insurance option.

"It is really important that Max Baucus recognizes what is at stake here," said Charles Chamberlain, political director of Democracy for America. "We consider the public option the core of any real reform here. We are going to make sure voters in Montana know Baucus is standing with insurance companies, rather than with Barack Obama."

The push by Democracy for America and PCCC is the latest escalation in the Democrat versus Democrat ad wars over health care reform. With all but a handful of Republicans opposed to President Barack Obama's plan, advocacy groups have spent their money almost entirely targeting wayward and undecided Democrats.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) popped off last week on the intraparty persuasion efforts, saying, "It's a waste of money to have Democrats running ads against Democrats."

Obama, in a conference call earlier this month with Reid and other congressional leaders, stressed the importance of minimizing critical ads that could undermine momentum, particularly among liberal groups, and indicated that he was working to curtail them.

But even the president's political operation, Organizing for America, couldn't resist a TV campaign aimed at lassoing members of his own party. The group stepped up its effort last week, putting up an ad in more than a dozen states targeting swing Senate and House members, including three Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Liberals used to take great satisfaction as conservatives and Republicans attacked each other while they were in power and eventually led to them losing that power in 2006.  Now the same thing is happening to the liberals and Democrats as some of the more conservative and I use that term loosely grow concerned about the amount  government spending and taxation that the Obama administration has attempted to push through Congress without any regard to the effect it will have on our country's future.  Will this lead to a Republican resurgence?  Only if they can return to their core principles and convince the voters that they will be fiscally responsible and not revert to their power mad ways of 1994-2006.

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