The Bill Nelson/Politifact Double Standard

In case the name Bill Nelson sounds only vaguely familiar, he's the U.S. senator from Florida whose name pops up every six years 1) to run for re-election and 2) to moan about the outrageous ads basically calling him a do-nothing Democratic go-along.

Sure enough, here he is in 2012, outraged again, demanding TV stations pull the new United States Chamber of Commerce 30-second spot on Obamacare. Basically, the ad claims Obamacare will be a "nightmare" for Florida seniors.

Politifact, an arm of the Tampa Bay Times, actually fuels Nelson's outrage, saying the ad uses a false Republican claim that Democrats cut $500 billion from Medicare. Politifact says there was no cut, it was a reduction in future growth -- the size of the Medicare program will increase dollar-wise.

But wait a minute here.

Where were Nelson and Politifact back in January when President Barack Obama and his administration were using the same semantic to take credit for cutting military funding? Obamas $480 billion in military spending cuts -- as he advertised them -- were actually from the bloated Congressional Budget Office baseline and nowhere else. He was merely reducing projected military spending, as opposed to cutting current spending.

Be fair and honest, guys, that's all you have to do: When it comes to cleverly disguising a spending increase as a cut, admit who set the precedent in 2012. It wasn't the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It was Obama -- with Nelson nodding like a bobblehead in the background.