[SCHROLL]

Kudlow had the head of the Blue Dog caucus on this afternoon. He said there are about 44 of them total including those just elected. Maybe if the non-RINOs in the House sat down with them they could come up with 1/3 + 1 in the House and at least block some of the nonsense that's coming down the pike from Pelosi and company.

[madison10]

Maybe if the non-RINOs in the House sat down with them they could come up with 1/3 + 1 in the House and at least block some of the nonsense that's coming down the pike from Pelosi and company.

I hope this happens. I would wager that the Blue-dogs would get along MUCH better with President Bush then with "Mama" Pelosi. She isn't going to have it as easy as she thinks.

[leilani]

I think you're on to something there. These newly minted "Dinos" have the potential to wield a lot more power, much more than your average freshman usually does, by swinging both ways, as it were.

They'd be crazy to give up that power by doing Pelosi's bidding in lockstep against the wishes of the socially conservative constituencies in their districts that put them in office based on their campaigns as conservatives.

If they're the least bit smart, we're going to see real some horsetrading across the aisle from them, just like the pubs saw from Chafee et al. That 'in name only' burr's in the other team's saddle & it's a heck of a lot bigger now, lol!

[Proud_texan]

"block some of the nonsense"

Doubtful, at least for most of the fish, it's just too hard for a freshman to go against the party, it's pretty much guarenteed death of getting any pork at all.

If you will it's not unlike the more fiscally conservative members of the republican party. Do you think they liked voting for some of those budgets? Nah, but at the end of the day they did.