Liberal blog firedoglake assailed “transparent lobbyist funded thuggery.” Health Care for America Now warned its supporters about “the crazy, lobbyist-funded, insurance-industry-supported, potentially violent right wing.” And the Center for American Progress reported about the efforts of “the lobbyist-funded Americans for Prosperity.”

So, those e-mails I’m getting, to go to other congressional districts, print out DNC-made signs, and support “reform,” are those “lobbyist-funded” astroturfing efforts? The DNC and its House and Senate campaign committees have already received over $1.1 million from lobbyists this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and Democratic candidates have raised more than twice as much from lobbyists as have Republicans.