Posted on 07/23/2009 11:35:58 AM PDT by xtinct
Conservative-leaning Blue Dog Democrats are enjoying a power surge like no other in their 15 years, forcing President Barack Obama and their own party leaders to deal with their demands for cost cuts and tax restraints in overhauling health care.
The evidence is everywhere these days: Polls show the public shares their concerns about the cost of Obama’s plan to insure all Americans who seek health coverage. Obama himself has spent valuable presidential time in private talks with these Democrats and in near-daily appeals for the public to prod Congress into action. And the group’s political fund raising is peaking.
All the while, Obama and Democratic leaders have issued shout-outs to the faction of 52 House members, a sign of the clout Blue Dogs wield over some of the president’s top priorities — none more than his plan to provide health care to virtually all Americans.
"I think, rightly, a number of these so-called Blue Dog Democrats — more conservative Democrats — were concerned that not enough had been done on reducing costs," Obama said Tuesday in an interview with CBS News.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
I seriously doubt we are going to kill this entire idea.
Obama is right that healthcare needs some kind of fix.
And so the rest of us can afford it in the future.
I'm sure they will pass something. Will what they pass be something closer to token "reform" or will it be ObamaCare with only "token" changes? Which "token" will we be given?
Just publicity and cover for these people, most of whom voted for cap and tax.
I think ALL of the blue dogs voted for Cap and Trade. Our Senator from Oklahoma, Boren, was on the front page of our paper at our townhall meeting and admitted he was getting clobbered for voting for Cap and Trade but promised he was NOT voting for the Health Care bill. Yes, he is trying to make up for his past vote...but at least that one didn’t pass and he now understands who he works for!!!!! I think this is the beginning of my bucking the system Democrats!
Don’t thank them until ObamaCare is dead. It’s currently critically wounded, but still alive.
I think that (unless it was something else)43 house Dems. actually voted against the Cap and Trade bill!
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