Paul, baby, even the hack liberals are getting tired of your crap. Maybe it’s time for some personal reflection.

The Obama campaign’s point person in New Mexico recently sent an email to supporters defending the president’s position on the debt deal and bashing the Nobel Prize winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and the “Firebagger Lefty blogosphere.”

On the evening of Aug. 1, just after Congress passed legislation to raise the debt ceiling, Obama for America (OFA) New Mexico State Director Ray Sandoval sent an email to supporters with the subject line, “Please take 5 minutes to read this, Please.”

“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,” Sandoval wrote in bold text.

Sandoval goes on to push a Krugman-bashing article by liberal activist Spandan Chakrabati:

Paul Krugman is a political rookie. At least he is when compared to President Obama. That’s why he unleashed a screed as soon as word came about the debt ceiling compromise between President Obama and Congressional leaders – to, you know, avert an economic 9/11. Joining the ideologue spheres’ pure, fanatic, indomitable hysteria, Krugman declares the deal a disaster – both political and economic – of course providing no evidence for the latter, which I find curious for this Nobel winning economist. He rides the coattails of the simplistic argument that spending cuts – any spending cuts – are bad for a fragile economy, ignoring wholeheartedly his own revious cheerleading for cutting, say, defense spending. But that was back in the day – all the way back in April of this year…

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.

Ed Morrissey noticed the term “firebagger”, which is apparently a hybrid between teabagger and FireDogLake, a prominent extreme-left blog. Jane Hamsher, the extreme-left blogger, isn’t exactly laughing:

“What exactly does OFA [Obama for America] think they stand to gain by ridiculing Krugman as a ‘political rookie,’ a hysterical ‘fanatic’ and an ‘ideologue’?,” blasted Jane Hamsher, author of the popular liberal blog FireDogLake. “Do they think they hold so much sway with liberals that they can discredit Krugman and thus neutralize his criticism?”

And this isn’t the first time Team Obama has blasted the extreme-left:

Since taking office, several top Obama aides have raised the ire of liberals with their words. Former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel last yearprivately called a group of liberal activists “f—ing retarded,” while several months later former press secretary Robert Gibbs lashed out at what he called the “professional left.” One blogger confronted senior strategist David Axelrod to demand an end to the administration’s “hippie punching.”

Why does the administration do this and think it can get away with it? Because it can. It knows liberal activists are Obama’s, for lack of a better word, bitches.

He’s pissed them off. Okay. What are they going to do about it? Launch a primary challenge? Stay home? Either one would destroy his reelection. Are they willing to do that? Are they willing to put a conservative Republican in the White House just to get back at him for calling them names? Very unlikely.

So they’ll whine, they’ll bitch, they’ll moan, they’ll stomp their feet, they’ll threaten up and down, they’ll promise to never again help him…then they’ll vote for him on election day, if for no other reason than to preserve government-run health care. And he knows that.

He can beat them all he wants, and they’ll come back to him each and every time. Which is why he continues to beat them. There are no consequences to his actions against the left. So he’s free to smash them in the hopes of winning over a few independents. And again, he knows that.