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Frank Bites Back, Demands Retraction Of Blue Dog Comments In Politico

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

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Backers of President Obama's cornerstone financial regulatory reform proposal pushed back Monday against the Blue Dog Coalition, which is promoting a ...

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Blue Dogs Rolling In Health Industry Money

McClatchy | Halimah Abdullah | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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As the Obama administration and Democrats wrangled over the timing, shape and cost of health care overhaul efforts during the first half of the year, ...

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

The Daily Beast | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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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 abou...

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Part 2: Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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The problem isn't a few highly specialized physicians as much as it is the gaping maw between the few zip codes where they practice and the rest of the country. This is the real class warfare.

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Battling the Blue Dogs

Steve Hildebrand | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Blue Dogs view themselves as centrists. I look at the term centrist and think of politicians who are afraid to take positions on issues that might cause heartburn with swing voters.

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Waxman: Blue Dogs Must Relent On Health Care Reform

The Hill | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) says there is "no alternative" to having healthcare legislation bypass his commit...

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Salon: Blue Dogs Put Corporate Interests Over Party, Constituents

Salon | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Nobody could be better positioned than the Democrats who call themselves "Blue Dogs" to sabotage healthcare reform, the primary objective of their pre...

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Reid: Senate Will Miss Obama's Health Care Deadline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) made it official Thursday, telling reporters that his chamber will miss President Obama's August-recess dea...

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Obama Meets With Blue Dogs Dems In Push On Health Care Reform

FOX News | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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President Obama has invited a small group of fiscally-conscious House Democrats -- known as the "Blue Dogs" -- to the White House Tuesday morning in a...

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It's Time to Spay and Neuter the Blue Dogs on Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

The Blue Dog coalition loved spending lavishly on the Iraq war only to rediscover the evil of budget deficits as soon as Obama was elected.

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'Blue Dog' Democrats Demand Billions In Pet Projects

Bloomberg | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

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U.S. Representative Jim Marshall is a Georgia Democrat and a member of his party's Blue Dog Coalition, a group of lawmakers bound by a desire to restr...

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Blue Dog Membership List Released

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

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Call it service journalism. The updated membership list for the influential conservative Democratic group, the Blue Dog Coalition, is available below....

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Blue Dogs Are Now Silver Foxes

Major R. Owens | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Yes, the knights of change riding into Washington can do it. But only if they are vigilant against the Blue Dogs who hunt in the jungles of the capitol.

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