Email from OFA New Mexico director enflames White House-Left feud

Amanda Terkel of Huffington Post reports that Ray Sandoval, the New Mexico director for Organizing for America, sent out an e-mail on August 1 to supporters imploring them to read a blog post criticizing New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and the “Firebagger Lefty blogosphere.”

“I know many of you have raised frustrations, but please, I implore you, please take 5 minutes and read the article below. It does a great job of explaining the Debt Ceiling deal,” wrote Sandoval.

The blog post in question:

No, the loudest screeching noise you hear coming from Krugman and the ideologue Left is, of course, Medicare. Oh, no, the President is agreeing to a Medicare trigger!!! Oh noes!!! Everybody freak out right now! But let’s look at the deal again, shall we? [...]
Now let’s get to the fun part: the triggers. The more than half-a-trillion in defense and security spending cut “trigger” for the Republicans will hardly earn a mention on the Firebagger Lefty blogosphere. Hell, it’s a trigger supposedly for the Republicans, and of course, there’s always It’sNotEnough-ism to cover it.

Krugman has never been particularly keen on Barack Obama, and neither have so-called “Firebaggers,” an apparent portmanteau of Jane Hamsher’s liberal blog site Firedoglake and the derogatory word for tea partiers, “teabaggers.” Krugman preferred Hillary Clinton over Obama in the primaries, and Hamsher opposed the Affordable Care Act, which passed on the ever-elusive Democratic dream of universal coverage.

But are that many liberals dissatisfied with Obama?

Gallup has support among self-identified liberals at 72 percent as of August 1. Among Democrats, his support is at 77 percent. In New Mexico, the president has around an 80 percent approval rating among “very liberal” and “somewhat liberal” voters and a 72 percent approval rating among Democrats, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted in late June.

Krugman has an obviously influential column and Hamsher appears on MSNBC frequently.