In his “Monday’s numbers” column, Chris Fitzsimon looks at campaign contributions and presents some interesting findings.
Progressive Voices commentator Barlow Herget writes “A letter to the blue dogs” chastising them for their ‘nay’ votes on health care reform and posing the question “Who’s going to vote for you?”.
In his [...]
Day 3 following the House vote on HR 3962 and still not a whimper from the Blue Dog Democrats on their Web site. Saturday night, the majority of the group (28 of 52 by my count) voted FOR the trillion-dollar, freedom-killing takeover of the U.S. health care system. This [...]
To get the Democratic votes for the narrow victory on Saturday for the House's "Affordable Health Care for America Act," Speaker Nancy Pelosi was forced into a corner by the Blue Dogs, led by Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan. She allowed a vote on the' [...] As far as I can tell, the Web site of the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition hasn’t been updated since Saturday night’s vote on HR 3962. As I blogged previously, if my math is correct, 28 of these 52 “fiscal conservatives” voted FOR the astronomically expensive, freedom-killing, nearly 2000-page [...]
For the last couple of years, I've been operating under the assumption that Paul Krugman was correct when he said, "Now we’re living in an age of one-letter politics, in which a politician’s partisan affiliation is almost always far more important than his or her personal beliefs."
By my count, more than half (28 out of 52) of the supposedly fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrats voted FOR HR 3962 — the nearly 2,000-page bureaucratic monstrosity that, if implemented, will stifle the economic prospects of this generation, and many generations to come. I cringe when I [...]
It's one thing to have personal beliefs, but it's another thing entirely to use those personal beliefs as a foundation for public policy. The conservative beliefs of Blue Dogs when it comes to deficit spending, for example, are grounded in conventional wisdom which doesn't hold up under scrutiny. Paul' [...]
