Posted on 12/08/2006 5:52:03 AM PST by Mo1
In a luncheon yesterday, members of the fiscally centrist Democratic Blue Dog Coalition promised to build bipartisan consensus to establish “fiscal sanity” and attempt to improve government accountability, transparency and oversight.
“This country is desperate for the middle, desperate for common-sense solutions,” said Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.).
“We have to tear down that aisle between Republicans and Democrats,” said Rep. Allen Boyd (D-Fla.).
Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) said Democrats only have a short time to prove they can work across the aisle to get things done.
“The message that was sent on election night was not that the American people chose Democrats to lead the country out of this mess — they fired the current Republican leadership. We have a narrow window of opportunity to prove we can do better.”
President Bush has invited members of the centrist Blue Dog and New Democrat coalitions to the White House on Friday to discuss areas “of mutual cooperation,” in the words of one Democratic aid.
How big are the two groups?
Let's see how long this last. And let's see how many of these guys are really pro life.
Let's see how many of them get spanked by Mistress Pelosi.
Any man or woman who are members of the Anti-American party, are Anti-American.
"they fired the current Republican leadership. We have a narrow window of opportunity to prove we can do better.”
I have not heard any kind of plan. That is what really bothers me.
The good news is that I don't think they will be able to agree on anything, and if the Dems were able to block Repub agenda with Repubs having a far bigger majority than Dems, it should be more of the same congressional stonewalling with a slim Dem majority.
None.
You cannot be pro-life and support Nancy Pelosi for speaker.
They'll be bought off with promises of new roads (or something similar) in their districts. What we will hear now is "investments in infrastructure" to be paid for with tax increases on the "rich".
I once called myself a blue dog, or conservative democrat, before I found Rush and finally left The Left, a truly Rat infested party. I. too, hope these guys can pull off some common sense.
Hope none of them take seriously Pelosi's invitation to a picnic lunch at Ft. Marcy Park.
WHich (as usual) would result in even more taxes, more graft, more morphing away from a republic into a democracy..
We are supposed to believe this? Years of obstructionism is their strategy to gain power and when they get it they claim to be bipartisan? That's not even credible. John Bolton was my test and they flunked.
Speaker Pelosi, tear down this wall.
Always remember that "centrist" Democrats like Casey got elected in part through the help of extreme feminist groups like NARAL.
The Dem'crats may have brought their own Trojan Horse into the 110th Congress. They are already eying Pelosi's Posse suspiciously.
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