As Republicans expose fraud in the tens of billions in Medicaid and other welfare programs, Democrats’ response is to . . . duck.
They made it glaringly obvious last week as Sen. Rand Paul chaired a Senate Homeland Security Committee meeting: Nearly all the panel’s Dem members were total no-shows; only Sen. Gary Peters attended at all, and only long enough to ask a few questions before heading for the door.
The hearing actually covered two very different fraud topics:
- Independent journalist Nick Shirley reviewed his welfare-fraud discoveries, including blatant abuses of Medicaid by New York adult day cares.
- Undercover-video specialist James O’Keefe testified about his recordings uncovering voter bribery on LA’s Skid Row.