Three cheers for Kirsten Powers for not sitting quietly by as a Republican debate opponent made the kinds of smears and jeers of the left that are commonplace on Fox. Powers is not exactly the strongest advocate for the left on Fox but she's often willing to do what others who are supposedly further left will not - and that is call out right-wing baloney when she sees it.

The discussion was about the fiscal cliff deal. But at about 4:44 into the video below, Powers responded to Republican Dee Dee Benkie's attacks with the following:

The only thing Dee Dee left out... all the people who voted for Obama are a bunch of leeches... This is why the Republican party is so irrelevant right now... It's because they fundamentally don't understand the electorate and they keep telling themselves these lies about what, who the electorate is.

This idea like, 'You're getting free stuff.' I mean, it's so condescending... There are thinking people, you know, who like the president for a lot of different reasons. It's not because they're getting free things or because he's likeable or any of these other things. Look, he staved off us from going into the, potentially into another great depression. That's not a minor thing. If you disagree with that? Fine. But stop denigrating the people who feel differently and believe differently... People who voted for Barack Obama are smart, thoughtful people.