What Are the Blue Dogs Thinking?

Townhall.com ^ | August 17, 2009 | Bruce Bialosky

[penelopesire]

Many of these Blue Dogs will be bought off and should they lose re-election in 2010, they will ‘retire’ multi-millionaires. It’s the Chicago Way. Why should they care if they are re-elected? They will have millions in their offshore bank accounts!

[Kaslin]

thanks for the link

[Mr Rogers]

I’m in Vail. Gabby Giffords is a “Brown Dog” - someone who is so far up Pelosi’s butt that she has turned brown forever!

[HIDEK6]

I wonder if they’re going to link to your grocer to find out if Grandpa has been sneaking donuts despite his diabetes.)

If Grandpa insists on using his VIC Card, I have no sympathy for him.

[dusttoyou]

Lib/Dems are all exclaiming the “see the light at the end of the tunnel” with their WE WON majorities. Blue Dogs and other Dems are slowly beginning to recognize “that sound” in the tunnel as a train coming.

[Kenny Bunk]

Democrat politicians have a long history of being one guy back home and a completely different guy in DC.

Republicans have the same history. Blue Dogs score best with "Independents." The tiresome "I vote for the man, not the party" people: I.E., people too stupid to realize that electing a "good conservative Blue Dog" simply gives the Democrats the edge they need to appoint judges and the other leftist ani who run our daily lives.

Republicans win in fairly apportioned districts when the "independents" figure the Stupid Party is perhaps not as bad an idea, or less harmful, than the Evil Party. This is what passes for Republican Party ideology.

[Alberta's Child]

Democrat politicians have a long history of being one guy back home and a completely different guy in DC.

You're right about this. I was driving through South Dakota late in the summer of 2004 -- during the peak of Tom Daschle's last campaign for the U.S. Senate before he ultimately lost to Republican John Thune.

From the billboards I saw and the sound of his radio ads, I would have sworn the guy was a conservative Republican with a 95+ rating from the American Conservative Union. I couldn't believe this was the same dope who was such an unapologetic leftist when the "Beltway Daschle" version of his persona came out in national media outlets.

[Luke21]

Gabby is the pits. She might even be to the left of Pelosi.

[CharacterCounts]

What Are the Blue Dogs Thinking?

They are thinking: Oh crap, thanks to the public outrage there won't be enough Republicans signing on to this health care boondoggle to give me cover and now I am going to be forced to reveal my true colors.

[combat_boots]

Who said they think? Who did it? Confess.

[Zionist Conspirator]

“Blue Dog Democrats” = “Still mad at Abraham Lincoln.” Is there any other reason for their remaining in that abominable party?

[tet68]

What are the “Blue Dogs” thinking?

What does any dog think?

Bacon,Bacon,Bacon,Bacon,Bacon,Bacon,Bacon,Bacon,Bacon!

[kevinw]

Yes. Many, if not all, of them are still Democrats because they were born Democrats and brought up as Democrats. Their parents, grandparents, etc. were Democrats. It’s a long-standing family tradition with many, if not all, Blue Dogs, especially in the South. Long-standing family traditions are not always easy to break.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Yes. Many, if not all, of them are still Democrats because they were born Democrats and brought up as Democrats. Their parents, grandparents, etc. were Democrats. It’s a long-standing family tradition with many, if not all, Blue Dogs, especially in the South. Long-standing family traditions are not always easy to break.

Considering what the Democrat party now stands for, they have no excuse.

They will be the death of this country.

[maryz]

You're right about this. I was driving through South Dakota late in the summer of 2004

Maybe it's a South Dakota thing -- I remember reading, back when Nixon utterly trounced the leftist McGovern back in '72 that the presidential campaign was the first clue SD voters had that McGovern was a liberal!