Democrats Attack... Themselves?

According to a statement by the Senate Majority Leader's office, Democrats have launched a coordinated partisan attack on Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum for filing a lawsuit against the federal healthcare legislation.

Senate Majority Leader Alex de la Portilla defended McCollum saying, "In that role [as Florida's duly elected chief legal representative], not only is General McCollum's legal review of this new federal healthcare bureaucracy appropriate, it is obligatory."

The statement, released late Thursday afternoon, is in response to a partisan press conference by Senate Democrats who blasted McCollum over the lawsuit. A Miami Herald blog criticized the Attorney General further by pointing out the fact that, as a matter of policy, the office doesn't track the hours that in-house attorneys work on lawsuits generated in house.

But the part of the story not told by the Miami Herald is that the Democrats are doing the same thing that has inspired their attack on McCollum.

The Democrats claim they want to know how much the health care lawsuit is going to cost and are calling for an audit. But they themselves would have to spend taxpayer money to have the A.G.'s office audited. It begs the question, "how much will that audit cost taxpayers?"

Put another way, the Democrats appear to be grandstanding and calling for costly legal action as a way of pointing out their view that McCollum is grandstanding in his pursuit of legal action against the healthcare bill.