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A Blue Dog's Lament: People Are Scared
Politico ^ | 08/21/2009 | Jonathon Martin

Posted on 08/22/2009 5:04:54 AM PDT by fiscon1

Rep Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) is a skilled politician who has pretty much seen it all — a Deep South Democrat who’s managed to dispatch all opponents in his conservative-leaning Panhandle district since winning election in 1996.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: bluedogs; healthcare; obama
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1 posted on 08/22/2009 5:04:55 AM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1

Scared? Try pissed.


2 posted on 08/22/2009 5:07:18 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: fiscon1
They may be in a minority, but they are a larger minority than we’ve seen in the 20-plus years that I’ve been doing this,” The minority? What polls are they looking @ to believe we're the minority?
3 posted on 08/22/2009 5:11:21 AM PDT by EmilyGeiger (The problem with socialism, is eventually you run out of other people's money. Margaret Thatcher)
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To: EmilyGeiger

This is not a question of minority/majority. It is question of prudence.

You do not hand such a large job over to a concern - the US government - that has shown a terrible track record of managing large finances.


4 posted on 08/22/2009 5:13:47 AM PDT by Loud Mime (barastikas = Obama's logos)
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To: fiscon1

Well, listen, Mr. Blue Dog, you let Rahm Emanuel talk you into running, and you took Soros money to pound down the Republican opponent. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. You also have the option of just resigning, leaving the seat open to the next “blue dog” or even allowing it to revert to Republican control.


5 posted on 08/22/2009 5:14:18 AM PDT by alloysteel (Never let an inanimate object know that you are in a hurry.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Pissed off at the job they have done, scared to let them keep doing it. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS (electorally speaking of course).


6 posted on 08/22/2009 5:14:41 AM PDT by politicalmerc (If Birthers are so silly, then why not show the BC and put them to shame?)
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To: fiscon1

This Politico article is a pile of horse dung:

To wit:

“The overhyped and in many cases fraudulent sense of grass-roots fervor during an August Democrats would like to forget is easy to minimize. But for all the cries of Astroturf fakery and ginned-up crowds, a ground zero view in a district like Boyd’s underlines that a very real sense of anger and frustration is bubbling over as summer wanes.”

“A visit to Florida’s 2nd District also is a bracing case study in the mounting political peril some Blue Dogs like Boyd may be facing.”

It’s either “overhyped... fraudulent... fakery ... ginned-up” [all that in one single paragraph!] or it is “mounting political peril”.

It cannot be both.

Yet the “objective journalist” of Politico writes the story as if it is “fake” yet also menacing.

This could only pass for “reporting” to the sociopaths and liars on Capitol Hill.


7 posted on 08/22/2009 5:17:11 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: fiscon1
Hmm let see, I just put the house I am assessed at $260,000 for property taxes on the market for $185,000. Since the Democrats took the Congress in 2006, I have seen everything I worked my whole life for, my 401k and my equity in my home, vanish as if by magic. I am confronted with starting all over at age 45 almost from scratch.

Scared. No, I am righteously pissed.

8 posted on 08/22/2009 5:19:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Obamanomics: we have to destroy the US Economy in order to save it!)
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To: angkor
This could only pass for “reporting” to the sociopaths and liars on Capitol Hill.

Brilliant analysis.

9 posted on 08/22/2009 5:20:37 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Obamanomics: we have to destroy the US Economy in order to save it!)
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To: fiscon1

Mr. Blue Dog needs to realize that Democrats in general and the current administration in particular hold people like his constituents in total disdain. Fly-over populations are not to be considered in any legislation—other than as payers.


10 posted on 08/22/2009 5:22:34 AM PDT by comps4spice (The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

“Scared? Try pissed.”

Pee peed up?! :)


11 posted on 08/22/2009 5:23:37 AM PDT by maggief
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To: fiscon1

Only liberal politicians are scared. The rest of us are outraged.


12 posted on 08/22/2009 5:28:31 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: fiscon1

“They may be in a minority, but they are a larger minority than we’ve seen in the 20-plus years that I’ve been doing this,”

...the only reason there weren’t more is that this “minority” is working you f’n Marxist, fake, self serving SOB! ANYBODY (except Zell Miller) with a D next to their name is indeed a Marxist AND a supporter of BO’s agenda because they A- actually believe his nonsense or B- feel they have to jump on board to save themselves and their families or C- both.


13 posted on 08/22/2009 5:34:21 AM PDT by albie
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To: fiscon1
Rep Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) is a skilled politician

I've personally known Alan Boyd for over twenty years and I can attest he is as dumb as a box of rocks.

14 posted on 08/22/2009 5:35:39 AM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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To: angkor

Webb cited the stimulus before wondering in his next breath: “I don’t understand how a company can fail and then the head of that company gets a $3 or $4 million bonus.”

...more ignorant wealth envy. It’s these kinds of boobs that keep voting “blue dog” ninnies into office over and over.


15 posted on 08/22/2009 5:37:49 AM PDT by albie
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To: MNJohnnie

It could be worse, you could be 65!


16 posted on 08/22/2009 5:41:08 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: albie
Webb cited the stimulus before wondering in his next breath: “I don’t understand how a company can fail and then the head of that company gets a $3 or $4 million bonus.”

That is a good question. Why not run that one past Harold Raines???

17 posted on 08/22/2009 5:44:16 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Proud Graduate of the Robert Mugabe School of Government and Economics)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Oh yeah, it can always be worse. 0 might get reelected!


18 posted on 08/22/2009 5:46:21 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Obamanomics: we have to destroy the US Economy in order to save it!)
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To: fiscon1; angkor; comps4spice; capt. norm
From Friday's Panama City News Herald:

Boyd will hold “community forum” on 28 Aug at Panama City Community College.

Attendance is limited to 500. Free tickets in advance for pick up 4-8 pm at the college on 25 Aug.

It will be a panel discussion featuring the two-faced Boyd (conservative jive at home, votes with stretch pelosi 85% of the time) and three medical experts. Local TV News anchors will moderate the event.

This will not be a town hall. Only select questions submitted in advance will be answered.

19 posted on 08/22/2009 6:02:11 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Laws of Nature and Nature's God - The bedrock of our unalienable rights.)
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To: MNJohnnie

That would not be worse, it would be a diaster.


20 posted on 08/22/2009 6:05:47 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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