When you see 'elder statesman' think 'lobbyist'

Back during the ObamaCare debate, the liberal mainstream media swooned when retired Republican congressional leaders like Bob Dole and Bill Frist, along with GOP former Health & Human Services Secretaries Tommy Thompson and Louis Sullivan, urged Republicans to help Obama pass a health-care bill.

Somehow these smitten reporters and their editors found it unneccessary to mention that Dole, Frist, Thompson, and Sullivan were all in the pay of health-care companies, many of which will profit from the bill’s subsidies, mandates, and regulations.