Posted on 07/30/2009 10:30:56 AM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
The MSM basically defines the Blue Dogs as conservative Democrats. As you might expect from the MSM, that is a very misleading definition. A better definition is this: Blue Dogs are Democrats who represent conservative leaning congressional districts. Blue Dogs talk conservative at home and vote liberal in DC.
It is true that the BDs are helping to shape legislation, some say by moderating it and watering it down BHO's aggressive domestic policy agenda. The BDs can and do withhold their votes until they get the concessions they want. They are currently hard at work feathering their own nests and making sure their districts get their share of the alloted pork. This is how sausage, I mean laws are made in Washington.
If the Blue Dogs really were conservatives, they would be teaming up with the Republican minority to block BHO's ruinous socialistic agenda. A Blue Dog doesn't wake up in the morning trying to figure out a way to stop BHO's reckless policies. A BD wakes up trying to figure out what's in it for me and how will it enhance my re-election prospects. Rinos act in much the same way.
There are really two wings of the Democrat Party: The Blue Dogs represent mostly rural and suburban districts. Many are from the South and Midwest and many can be found in Republican leaning states. These are basically Clinton Democrats. The other wing of the Democrat Party--let's call them Red Dogs--they represent the urban base and core of the Democrat party. They are often radical left and out and out socialists. They want much bigger government, income redistribution, higher taxes, and more government programs as well as affirmative action, gun control, abortion on demand, open borders and same sex marriage. These are the BHO Democrats. They often hail from urban one-party districts and are deeply entrenched and difficult to defeat.
AN OPPORTUNITY: Hint Hint to the RCCC: Our biggest chance for taking back the Congress rests with taking out and defeating the Blue Dog Democrats in next year's midterm elections. We have a better chance of doing this and stoppoing BHO's socialist agenda than we do of ever locating BHO's original birth certificate. There are currently 49 congressional districts that were carried by John McCain that have Democrat congressmen. Here is were you will find most of your two faced feather nesting Blue Dog Democrats. I say let's gather our shotguns and our own hunting dogs and drive these cotton picking varmints out of office next year. The Blue Dogs are in fact the low hanging fruit in next year's congressional elections.
There is one honest and straightfoward Democrat I am aware of in Congress. Vermont's junior Senator, Bernie Sanders, has the guts and courage to call himself what he really is: A socialist. Wish the rest of his sorry Party would follow suit. It would make politics a whole lot more honest and simple. Don't let the Blue Dogs fool you. If there is a "D" after their name you know what needs to be done.
Obama’s lap dogs.
Democrat holdouts looking for better political deals.
‘Blue Dogs talk conservative at home and vote liberal in DC. ‘
Lol. The GOP for the past decade.
THIS is a blue dog. They got their name from these paintings.
The idea isn't that they're conservatives who happen to be Democrat, but that they are Democrats who are more conservative than other Democrats. "Conservative" is an adjective, not a noun.
That's the usage. I don't think it's right, though. In 1950 or 1960 or 1970, you still had conservative Democrats in Congress from the Southern states who had more "conservative" voting records than some Republican Representatives. You also had a few Northern Democrats who were labor-oriented on economic questions while quite conservative on social issues. Most of those in both groups are long gone.
Nowadays, the Blue Dogs are the more moderate Democrats. But the media doesn't want to say that. For them, moderate Democrats are always going to be "conservative," even as liberal Republicans will forever be "moderates." Maybe it's part of the glossary or style sheet journalists get when they come to Washington.
I live in California too. Now there’s one of the very few districts in CA that is very conservative and has a Democrat congressman.
Here is the litmus test every voter should ask a Blue Dog congressman to determine if they really are conservative:
Did you or did you not vote for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House.
We got Zero instead of Hillary because the DNC also recognized that Hillwitch was not electable.
The last real conservative Democrat congressman I am aware of was murdered by the Soviets on board KAL Flight 007 back in 1983.
Patrick Murphy (D-PA)
That’s a test Cardoza would flunk.
You’re right in your analysis: We’re not going to take out entrenched liberals in one party districts such as Pelosi, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, and Henry Waxman etc. Our only chance of taking back Congress rests with taking out Blue Dogs in districts which should be ours to begin with in places like Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina etc.
"Woof!"
“Vermont’s junior Senator, Bernie Sanders, has the guts and courage to call himself what he really is: A socialist.”
Bernie is a full fledged communist. A socialist is just a weak kneed communist.
“Vermont’s junior Senator, Bernie Sanders, has the guts and courage to call himself what he really is: A socialist.”
I have to give the same prop to Howard Dean. Though I detest their politics, both men have been up-front about what they stand for, misguided and insane as those stances might be. You at least know where you stand with them.
Well at least he is more honest than most Democrats about his politics and where he’s coming from. I actually have a lot more respect for a guy like Sanders who doesn’t hide his politics than the Blue Dogs who are very two faced and are always trying to have it both ways.
I agree with you. Of course I’m no fan of Howard Dean but at least I never had any trouble knowing where he stood on any particular issue.
I remember in the early 1980s, RR was trying to get a budget cutting bill passed. A constituent of a Blue Dog Congressman who was wavering back and forth (typical of BDs)and wanted to know how was going to vote. The Congressman gave him a lot of gobbledygook. The angry constitient snapped “all I want to know are you fir ‘em or agin ‘em?”
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