Game on!

Oneolcop | August 28, 2009 | Oneolcop

[oneolcop]

From an extremely well-placed source in congress: It's game-on against the "Bluedogs".

[oneolcop]

I just learned that Pelosi and the hard left in congress are in the process of hammering the "Bluedogs" about the healthcare bill. The source, a congressman, said that the speaker, Pelosi is offering big incentives if they fold and threatening harsh punishment for them if they vote against the bill.

The only thing he said would make them resist is hamming them with phone calls demanding they vote against the bill and clogging their phone lines with calls. Go to it!!!

[Islander7]

Mississippi PING!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Pelosi is not their boss, their constituents are.

[spectre]

Blue Dogs better stand up to Pelosi and remember who brought them to the dance.

Pelosi's threatened "incentives" and "harsh punishment" will amount to NOTHING compared to being voted out in 2010.

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[oneolcop]

That's right. Pelosi is threatening them with harsh punishment -read cut-off of federal spending in their districts, if they don't fold and big increases in funding if they fold. That's Washington politics, unfortunately. That's why we have to call tell them what we want

[Devils Avocado]

These guys are going to have a tough go of it no matter what in 2010, because of the way most primaries work. If they hold the line against health care, the ultra-left in their jurisdiction may organize against them during the primaries, which have much lower participation (sometimes below 10%!). If the far left can mobilize a disproportionate number of their voters, they may be able to sink Blue Dogs in the primary.

On the other hand if the Blue Dogs slide to the left to win the primary, they risk alienating general-election voters who sent the Blue Dogs to DC in the first place because they're moderates. Not a fun political position to be in.

[freespirited]

This stuff is gonna leak.

[oneolcop]

Yep, pooooor politicians. They could always vote no and change parties.

[Devils Avocado]

"Yep, pooooor politicians. They could always vote no and change parties."

Hey, I don't pity them, I just don't envy their odds as opposed to anyone entrenched on the far edges of their party. (And I'm pretty sure they would have as hard a time, if not an even harder time, running as moderate Ex-Dem Republicans than as moderate Democrats.)

[Agamemnon]

Imagine if this heavy-handedness actually sparked a mass-defection resulting in party switching in those Red State McCain-voting majority house districts.

Well, I can dream, can't I?

[Redleg Duke]

"Pelosi is not their boss, their constituents are."

How dare you say that! Nazi Pelosi is the Czar of the House! Constituents?

Ha! The little people are too damned dumb to be considered. Next year, the Congress Critters will go back, campaign, make promises and the little people, the great unwashed, will just vote them in again, because "this time, they really mean it!"

[right way right]

They should make the threats become public if they want to lower the heat.

[Safrguns]

Republicans should encourage them to switch parties in response.

Voters can separate out the RINOS later.

We need to take down the leadership first.

This would do it.

[oneolcop]

I hope it would but these devils are slippery. There are 230 years worth of parliamentary tricks up their sleeve. We need to clear them all out.

[oneolcop]

I hope it would but these devils are slippery. There are 230 years worth of parliamentary tricks up their sleeve. We need to clear them all out.

[ronnie raygun]

Let us not forget the traitors of America. Bring them to justice!