Clinton-Era Freshman Dem Tells Blue Dogs: Get Some Guts

The Daily Beast:

As Blue Dogs fret about health care, Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky can relate. The woman who cast the deciding vote on Clinton's 1993 budget talks about holding all of Washington in your hands.

Read the whole story: The Daily Beast

Comments

[LeeCalif]

12:21 PM on 08/05/2009

Bluedogs = Turncoats.

Remember their names.

[jsgaetano]

12:05 PM on 08/05/2009

The problem isn't that Blue Dogs are gutless... the problem is they are really Republicans.

[WonderfulLife]

02:52 AM on 08/05/2009

1.5 million dollars is being spent PER day by the Health Care Industry to fight the American middle class from getting a public option. Money that goes toward paying staffers to leave fake negative posts on all the major blogs and to pay for professional agitators that are being bused to town hall meetings. They are determined to maintain their stranglehold on the health care industry and they don't care one bit about doing this above board and/or ethically.

So we need to counter that by contacting those who are in Congress and in the House.
Start with Democrat Mike Ross, the Bluedog Chair on Health Care at:
[e-mail]
Call him at his AR office at [phone] - phone [phone] - fax
Call him at his Washington office at [phone], 1-800-223-2220, [phone] Fax
Twitter him at RepMikeRoss

Tell him how you feel about how he's handling health care for Americans after accepting millions of dollars from the health care industry.
And PLEASE send copies of his contact information to EVERYONE YOU KNOW asking them to also contact him. Come on folks-let's make some NOISE!

[lady49]

05:27 AM on 08/05/2009

Agreed! and DONE!

[Michael Shanley]

09:08 PM on 08/04/2009

You know I feel horrible that one feels they were a terrible politician only because they were not re-elected. I personally beleive what she did is what being a politician is and what more of them should do...they should put their job on the line for principle. I beleive until we set term limits, and personally I want short ones, no more han 2 years for House or Senate members and no more than 3 terms. Keep the system the way it is breeding corporate sponsorship and the good ol'boy system.

[BrickSykes]

09:35 PM on 08/04/2009

So you don't believe there is an experiential component to governance, huh? When are all these 'governors' supposed to learn how to 'govern?'

Brick

[LCLA]

08:39 PM on 08/06/2009

Term limits in Congress is not going to happen. It would require a Constitutional Amendment which would never pass muster.
If you doubt this, just recall how the Equal Rights Amendment (which is very simple and hard to directly oppose on principle) never passed after all the doubts about what might happen rallied the forces opposed to any change in the status quo.

[CommunistUtopia]

05:33 PM on 08/04/2009

We are in debt like never before in our history. Blue Dogs who vote for any of Obama's spending should get voted out in 2010. I am donating to those campaigns to get the bid spenders out.

[drkazmd65]

12:16 AM on 08/05/2009

Start with the Republicans that voted for the biggest net increase in the defecit over Bush's 8 years then too. They are at least as bad as the Blue Dogs.

As long as you are going to get rid of the big spenders,.... start with the ones that spent the most with the least to show for it.

A 6-year war of choice in Iraq,...

Medicare D's give away to the Pharmacutical companies,...

Tax-cuts for the rich during a time of 'war'.

They are the ones that got us into the hole to begin with.

[WonderfulLife]

04:17 AM on 08/05/2009

You are 100% right. But it isn't enough to vote them out down the line. Politicians like that deserve to be RECALLED if they are obstructing health care for the middle class. They are essentially ignoring the will of their constituents and they deserve to be removed from office NOW if their vote has been purchased by the Health Care Industry.

[texanna]

05:24 PM on 08/04/2009

Marjorie may not have been a good politician, but she was a GREAT Representative. She is right on point with her observation about leading vs. being led. This article should be sent to all of the Blue Dogs along with the question -- are you more interested in just remaining in office or in truly representing your voting constituents. Because if the answer is for the former and not the latter, that Rep should be voted out at the next electoral opportunity.

[drkazmd65]

12:18 AM on 08/05/2009

Sadly - most of the Blue Dogs (in fact most of Congress of both parties) would rather get re-elected than do the right thing.

The lose their cusy Congress jobs,... they might have to go out and do something for a living.

[WonderfulLife]

04:19 AM on 08/05/2009

Then tell them that. Let them know that not only are they not going to be re-elected but that they are going to be facing a recall.

[Nyla785]

02:09 PM on 08/04/2009

Here--go by a spine?

[Dolmance]

01:20 PM on 08/04/2009

Hey, just a little integrity would be nice.

[orianna]

12:59 PM on 08/04/2009

Remove blue dogs from the democratic congress.... they are redcoats in disguise.

[noneIn2008]

12:52 PM on 08/04/2009

Why not let the states handle health care? 50 different experiments so that when you have mistakes like Mass, not everyone gets hit. Washington normally makes big mistakes with huge unintended bad consequences? The states will make better decisions on smaller scales so mistakes will be more easily reversed.

[From the Raft]

01:11 PM on 08/04/2009

Better yet why don't we just have local churches handle healthcare. They could knock it out during Wednesday night's regular prayer meeting. Accidents could be handled by TVevangelicals.

[ObamacratInCA]

01:18 PM on 08/04/2009

This made me laugh several times over. Thanks.

[Bude]

12:48 PM on 08/04/2009

The majority of Americans want health care reform. Give it to them!

[From the Raft]

01:13 PM on 08/04/2009

The majority of America's legislators want lobbyist's money and they are getting it and getting away with murder or at least manslaughter by their failure to give healtcare to the people.

[Bude]

12:46 PM on 08/04/2009

I was thinking of something south of the guts!

[zyxt]

12:14 PM on 08/04/2009

oh so you only vote so you can keep your job

[CTtransplant]

11:57 AM on 08/04/2009

Are the rest of you are as fed up as I am with the obstruction and political game playing going on with this health care reform? The Republican obstructionists and the Blue Dog Dems have absolutely NO clue what the rest of us are going through with healthcare. Maybe it's time they did!

If you agree, please sign the petition below, and forward it - any way you can - to anyone and everyone you know! Time to let them know how we feel!!!!

http://www.petitiononline.com/PubOp676/petition.html