A group of 52 House Democrats, mostly from conservative leaning districts, belong to the Blue Dog Coalition. They like to go home and claim they are deficit hawks, pro-business free-market capitalists, and low tax advocates. Back in July, the Blue Dogs yipped for a little while and slowed down Nancy [...]
On Saturday, by a vote of 220-215 with the support of just one Republican, House Democrats passed their version of health care reform, a $1.3 trillion (and that will be too low, and just for the first decade) monstrosity of taxes, penalties, bureaucracies, and European-style socialism that will, if it [...]
The main story, which includes Markey's only interview after her vote, is here:
http://www.coloradoan.com/arti...
There's also an analysis that looks at the political [...]
