You got it. Or rather, Digby found it and Paul Krugman explains it.
Obama is the least liberal Democratic president since World War II, and presumably the least liberal since Woodrow Wilson.
I’m not bashing Obama, by the way; I wish he took stronger stands, but I think he’s moving in that direction; also, even if his health reform was devised by Heritage and implemented by Mitt Romney, it’s a lot better than nothing.
The point, instead, is that this very moderate Democrat is portrayed by the right, not to mentioned the aforementioned Romney, as a radical redistributionist — when the real radicals are on the other side. And now we have numbers. ...Krugman
The chart, the numbers are here.
