Remember all the screeching rhetoric from Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Democrats about the supposedly "immoral" Republican budget "cuts" to Medicaid, when all that was proposed was a very modest slowdown in the explosive growth of the program?  Well, it turns out that if the Republicans were immoral, so were some of the most popular Democratic governors.  From this morning's Washington Post:

"What (Pelosi) did not say is that those changes were proposed over the summer by a bipartisan task force of governors, led by Virginia's Mark R. Warner, whose popularity in a Republican state has made him a rising star in the Democratic Party.

"In fact, the most controversial provisions in the House bill were adapted almost word for word from a document drafted by Govs. Warner, Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa), Haley Barbour (R-Miss.), Janet Napolitano (D-Ariz.), Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.), Jennifer M. Granholm (D-Mich.), Dirk Kempthorne (R-Idaho), Jim Doyle (D-Wis.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and Edward G. Rendell (D-Pa.), said Ray Scheppach, executive director of the National Governors Association.

While the Post charitably spins this grandstanding by Congressional Democrats as "struggling to capitalize on the declining popularity of their adversaries," we prefer to call it exactly what it is: cynical demagoguery and rank hypocrisy.