A Smaller Pack of Blue Dogs

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/10/12/a_smaller_pack_of_blue_dogs.html

A Smaller Pack of Blue Dogs


The fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition could conceivably lose half of its 54 members in November's elections, with much of the group under seige in Republican leaning districts, Roll Call reports.

[vi5]

1. I'm sorry, but....good...

I know that's not a popular sentiment around here where we are supposed to believe that any dem is a good dem if it keeps us in power. But I think it's a bad thing for anyone to sell their souls in pursuit of power and I'm afraid that's just what the democratic party has done in it's cowering before the blue dogs. Let their numbers be smaller and let us get back to a caucus that although it may be diminished in numbers is at least more focused in it's goals and it's ideals.


*edited to correct. I accidentally typed "Democrat party" instead of democratic.

[babylonsister]

2. I agree with you; I'm tired of them fighting every Democratic

agenda item presented to them-then we usually find out who they're trying to appease, and it's not Dems. They need to be weeded out.

[slay]

6. I feel the same way

DINOS do us more harm than good in the long run - as is painfully obvious with their pro-corporate stance on everything. These so called "blue dogs" cause WAY more damage to the party as a whole than any small amount of good they might do IMO.

[defendandprotect]

15. T-baggers doing us a favor? We should be targeting pro-corporate DLC ....

and replacing them with liberal/progressive Democrats!!

[Winterblues]

3. Hope the door doesn't hit them in the ass on the way out..

:shrug: I wonder how they feel when ever single progressive is doing just fine in their bid for re-election. It is only those Republican lite SOBs that are getting the boot..

[WhiteTara]

9. Russ Feingold is far from DINO

and he is in deep trouble. Open your checkbook if you can.

[kenfrequed]

13. For Russ,

One of the few voices of reason against the US PATRIOT act, I have already donated $50, and will probably send him a bit more.

[old mark]

4. Well, they brought it on themselves, didn't they? rec. nt

[nemo137]

5. Yeah, I kind of have to agree with that.

[kenfrequed]

8. Yes!

As much as I am concerned with holding a majority (and I still think we will) I believe the Blue Dogs caused made their own bed by standing against change, splitting the party, complicating the message, and quixotically wanting to maintain some of the very Bush era policies that were both unpopular and caused much of the mess we are in now.

Evan Bayeh gets a special mention for creating a Senate Blue Dog caucus after our victory but before Obama even took the oath of office. He is a backstabber of party and people and cares little for anyone but his own power.

[old mark]

11. That last sentence seems to describe most of them. They feel they are more important

than the party iteslf, or the historic direction of the Democrats over the last century or so...

mark

[stray cat]

7. AND more republicans - and the problem is progressives think thats a win

[customerserviceguy]

10. The win comes

when the DINO's and Blue Dogs are replaced with tea partiers, who are in turn replaced with true progressives when President Obama is at the top of the ticket in 2012.

One step backwards, two steps forward.

[Motown_Johnny]

12. good, it will take away the (R) talking point that "Over 50 Democrats oppose this bill"

when no real Democrat would

[Dappleganger]

14. Good riddance.

They should have been put out to pasture long ago.

[Ganja Ninja]

16. Serves them right and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

Good Riddance.