Moderate Democrats

Elise Foley

Dems Form Group To Cut Spending

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As tension builds over compromise between the GOP-led House and Democrat-led Senate, Democratic Sens. Tom Carper, Mark Udall and Kay Hag...

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Draft Moderate Manifesto Part 1

Sheri and Allan Rivlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sheri and Allan Rivlin

In election after election, the same opportunity remains unrealized -- the possibility that either extreme could unite with the center to exclude the most extreme policies of the other.

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Yes We Can Win in 2012

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ed Koch

Will the Democratic Party learn from the drubbing and loss of one House? Probably not, but hope springs eternal. Maybe Democrats will take a hint and begin moving to a moderate left position.

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Fate Of Health Care Rests With Blue Dog Democrats

The New Republic | Posted 11.17.2011

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The fate of health care reform now rests largely with a group of Blue Dog Democrats in the House. Can Nancy Pelosi convince a small fraction of her ca...

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Evan Bayh's Retirement Signals Disappearance Of Moderate Middle In Congress

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The moderate middle is disappearing from Congress. Evan Bayh is just the latest senator to forgo a re-election bid, joining a growi...

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Misfits: Eight Politicians Who Should Just Switch Parties

Politics Daily | Jill Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011

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RINOs and conservadems are cutting quite a swath these days -- making demands, frustrating their colleagues, wielding clout and even influencing elect...

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Because Bipartisanship Is Dead Until 2011: A Defense of Senate Moderates

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

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John R. Bohrer

The GOP cannot even claim credit for bringing the bills to the middle of the road -- the Democrats are hogging all of it. And that is a good thing, despite what some may think.

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With a Health Care Plan This Insane, Who Needs Wingnuts?

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bob Cesca

Baucus' entire goal was to construct a bipartisan plan. Mission accomplished. Insofar as both parties hate it. He tailored his plan to appeal to the Republicans who, as it turns out, don't support the plan anyway.

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Physiological Link Between Affinity for Guns and Affinity for Health Insurance Bureaucrats?

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

There's a deal between reporters and Blue Dog Democrats to explain Blue Dog opposition to health insurance regulation as an outgrowth of representing culturally conservative districts.

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Congress Is Behaving as if the Health Care System Isn't in Tatters

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mitchell Bard

We are either going to get no health care reform or watered-down health care legislation that acts as a bandage, helping some people but ignoring the larger problem creating the pain.

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