Blue Dogs Roll Over

IBD Editorials ^ | July 30, 2009 | INVESTOR BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Congress: In exchange for a vague promise of cuts in the cost of health care "reform," a few fiscally conservative Democrats agree to release the bill to a September floor vote. Have the pit bulls become Chihuahuas?

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Apparently even a Blue Dog Democrat will stop growling if you toss him a big enough bone. Four of the seven who helped keep the House bill bottled up in the Energy and Commerce Committee — Mike Ross of Arkansas, Baron Hill of Indiana, Zack Space of Ohio and Bart Gordon of Tennessee — agreed to vote the bill out of committee in exchange for a promise of unspecified cuts.

Ross, a Blue Dog Coalition leader, said changes agreed to by the defectors and the leadership would cut the cost of the trillion-dollar House bill by almost $100 billion over the next decade. What the cuts are remains unknown, and in the past such promises of cuts have been like Lucy offering to hold the football one more time for Charlie Brown. In exchange, for their consciences, there won't be a floor vote before September.

There are additional parts to the deal. The compromise would allow states to create health "co-ops" that would also compete with a government-run "public option" and private insurers. Rates on the "public option" would not be tied to Medicare, but separately negotiated. Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman agreed to loosen the employer mandate so that it covered firms with payrolls over $500,000 rather than the original $400,000.

[bareford101]

obviously, they can be bought... which says what they are... now it’s just a matter of negoiating the price.

weasels... all of them...

[Kaslin]

[Kaslin]

It does not surprise me at all

[freekitty]

The American public does not want DEATHCARE..

[bareford101]

then you must have suspected WHAT they were... :)

[freekitty]

Unspecified cuts???? How transparent is that? I am sick of these people. They are crooks, liars and thieves.

They must leave Congress.

[hope]

typical democrats

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

They’re not blue dogs/

They are lap dogs.

[Red_Devil 232]

I heard a few of those Blue Dogs who capitulated have reversed course because the “Snake” Waxman reversed his position on what they agreed to.

[Kaslin]

No they don’t

[Kaslin]

Well, lets say I had a feeling they would.

[Gator113]

They can go by whatever label they want, but these traitors are still democrats to the bone.

[Kaslin]

You got it

[SkyPilot]

In the end, Bluedog Democrats are still Democrats.

DEMOCRAT

[Carley]

I called the office of four of them. One had his mailbox full. So I called the local IN office and suggested he was too much of a coward to take calls.

I then suggested the congressman move to Iran as they hate freedom there too.

They all got the same message from me. Move to Iran where the leaders hate freedom. They’ll feel right at home.

[ronnie raygun]

Time and time again they show us right up front who and what they really are, despicable pompus parasites with their own self interest in mind.

[CapnJack]

For those of you who live in a one of these blue pussy’s districts ... and you get a chance to ask him/her a question over the recess.

Ask them loud and clear so that all can hear you “why are people in congress and the Pres/VP exempt from this new legislation”?

I’m sure there will be many there waiting intently for that answer ... before they pull out the long knives.

[zipper]

Thank you, fellow patriot!

[NoobRep]

It’s up to the states to stand up for the people. Passage of this bill is a declaration of war.