Conservative Democrats Assert Power

BREITBART.COM ^ | March 7th, 2007 | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

[Greystoke]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faced scorn from fellow Democrats during a recent closed-door meeting for not moving more aggressively on Iraq, it was conservative Blue Dogs _ her ideological opposites _ who rose to defend her. The unlikely support reflected an emerging dynamic in the House, where the 43 right-of-center fiscal hawks are increasingly asserting their power, working to moderate the policies and image of a party with a liberal base and leaders to match.

The coalition's name is a play on yellow dog Democrats, an epithet that came into ...

[AU72]

The moonbats will be gunning for them.

[RockinRight]

Conservative Democrats Assert Power

All two of them?

[dfwgator]

The "Nancy Boys" will fall right into line.

[EagleUSA]

The left has gone so totally crazy, and into the ether of unreality, even some of its own members are rebelling. Good news in a way. But that does not fix the fundamental problem with the libs....wish it did.

[Rockitz]

Hopefully they can be relied upon to squash any form of amnesty for illegals that comes down the road as well.

[rhombus]

The "Nancy Boys" will fall right into line.

Didn't they do just that on the non-binding resolution?

[lilylangtree]

"Conservative Democrats"--thought they went extinct some time ago. Better yet, it's an oxymoron.

[MBB1984]

There are very few true conservative democrats. Even sadder, there seems to be few conservative republicans.

[Chi-townChief]

Have a list of the 43 available? My guy Lipinski is supposed to be one but he's still an a-hole.

[Congressman Billybob]

This writer hasn't done his homework. "Blue Dog" Democrat does not have anything to do with "Yellow Dog." Instead, it refers to the work of a Louisiana artist who puts a blue dog in all his paintings.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article: "Rudy Beats Hillary -- End of Story"

[dinoparty]

This article refers repeatedly to the "right-of-center" Democrats. Nah, they are just a little less to the left than is Nancy.

[spikeytx86]

him, 200 odd republicans in the house + 43 "blue dogs" could equal a strong majority for us on at least fiscal and defense matters. Kind of like the situation back during the 80's.

[JZelle]

Ooooooh! Go get 'em Heath!

[spikeytx86]

I meant mmm* LOL

[USS Alaska]

Conservative Democrats

Oh yeah,

[jbwbubba]

Its bull, every major vote this year those blue dogs have been blue, well lets say female canines; and voted the way Nancy ordered them to.

[Fresh Wind]

http://www.house.gov/ross/BlueDogs/

[onyx]

Thank you for the link.