Dear Media, the Blue Dogs Are Not Fiscally Conservative

North Star Writers Group ^ | August 17, 2009 | Paul Ibrahim

[ConservativeColumns]

A primary story of the health care debate has been the Blue Dog Democrats’ resistance to Barack Obama’s takeover of American health care. As a result of this show being put on by the Blue Dogs for their constituents, just about every media outlet has labeled the group and its 52 congressional members as “fiscally conservative.”

A quick note to the journalism majors who are penning such words: Not everyone slightly to the right of the far left is “conservative.”

You see, to the right of the far left, one might find an array of categories – from “leftist” to “moderate” – that provide a mighty buffer before a consequential label such as “conservative” can be used. And allow me to assure you, the Blue Dogs have far from traversed this ideological buffer.

[MNJohnnie]

Yhe "Blue Dogs", like most Democrats politicians, simply lied their way into power by pretending to be something they were not in order to win an election or 2.

Democrat politicians have a long history of being one guy back home and a completely different guy in DC. Too bad for them now that the junk media has lost it monopoly on the news cycle, that tactic of being right at home and left in DC isn't nearly as effective as it once was.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I know that my Blue Dog Rat, Jim Cooper-TN, is about as fiscally conservative as the zero himself. He has voted for EVERY spending bill since the TARP debacle. A total of some $5 TRILLION. In ONE year.

[CT-Freeper]

Most of the Blue Dogs that I know are Fiscally Liberal, and Socially Moderate.

[Defiant]

Definition of Blue Dog is “democrat in a moderate or conservative district or state who is really good at fooling his constituents into believing falsely that there is a difference between him/her and Nancy Pelosi”.