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Blue Dog Democrats

Phony Scandals and Fatal Delays

Nancy L. Cohen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Gop, Birthers, Rightwing, Health Care Reform, Media, Henry Louis Gates, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Nancy L. Cohen

Welcome back to the 1990s, brought to you by our sponsor, the GOP. Now, as it was then, we gawk while health care reform slips away.

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Who Wins the Battle During August Recess Will Determine the Fate of Health Care Reform

Mike Lux | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, 2009 Obama Administration, Senate Finance Committee, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Mike Lux

If the grassroots progressives out-organize the insurance/right wing astroturfers and if Reid and Pelosi put every bit of muscle into winning the fight for real reform, it can still happen.

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Republicans Lying to Old People About Euthanasia, Robots

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Republican Lies, Public Option, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Health Insurance, Mary Landrieu, Obama Health Care, Sean Hannity, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Robots, Virginia Foxx, Republicans, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Bob Cesca

Republicans would have you believe that all the debate about making health insurance more affordable is merely subterfuge in the White House's scheme to impose a final solution to the nation's elderly problem.

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Part 2: Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: De-Regulation, Class Warfare, Unemployment, Health Care Rationing, House Democratic Leadership, George W. Bush, Universal Healthcare, President Obama, Health Insurance, Blue-Dog-Coalition, Congress, Single Payer Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Recession, Blue Dog Democrats, Universal Health Care, Doctors, Politics News
Kimberly Krautter

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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The Honeymoon's Over Mr. President - Now Deal with Guantanamo, Gay Rights and Health Care

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Civil Liberties, Guantanamo Detainees, Health Care Reform, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Obama, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Blue Dog Democrats, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

The true test of a president is not how he performs with the wind at his back, but how he performs in the face of stiff resistance.

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

David Sirota | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Moderate Democrats, Cultural Conservative, Conservative Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Politics News
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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When Will They Ever Learn?

Mike Lux | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, 2009 Obama Administration, Obama Change, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Mike Lux

One thing is absolutely clear from what has happened over the last week in the health care debate: fundamental change has not come to Washington, D.C.

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Blue Dogs, Stop It

John McNamara | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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John McNamara

Right now, you don't represent the majority of Americans on health care reform. You represent yourselves and all the health care corporations who directly or indirectly fund your career.

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HuffPost Reporter Sam Stein Discusses Why Blue Dog Democrats Are Blocking Own Party's Health Care Reform (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Huff TV

HuffPost political reporter Sam Stein appeared on "The Ed Show" tonight to discuss why Blue Dog Democrats, a group of moderate to conservative Democra...

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Health Reform the American Way

Michael Brenner | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Individual Mandate Plan, Public Option, Obama Health Care, Health Care, American Democracy, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Michael Brenner

We vaunt American democracy as a stellar model for the world. The bizarre spectacle now on display over health care "reform" is hardly an advertisement from our prime export product.

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Health Insurance Industry Releases Ad Thanking Max Baucus For Screwing Over The American People

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.28.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Public Option, Humor, Lobbyists, Bribery, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Barack Obama, Campaign Donations, Satire, Political Humor, Health Care Reform, Obstructionist, Max Baucus, Political Satire, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Comedy News
Matthew Filipowicz

You have to admire the gumption of Baucus and the Blue Dogs. Ignoring the will of the people. Happily to derailing the Democratic party agenda. Stabbing their President in the back.

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Blue Dogs Will Be Swept Out if Health Care Public Option Fails

Scott Foval | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fear, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Public Health, ScottsBigMouth.Com, Max Baucus, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Disinformation, Politics News
Scott Foval

Time to buck up, Mr. President, and remember that the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party went along with your rhetoric, but we expect that you will deliver the public option.

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Sam Stein

Maxine Waters: Rahm To Blame For Obstructionist Blue Dogs

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dog Democrats Maxine Waters, Obama Blue Dogs, Rahm Emanuel, Emanuel Chickens Roost, Health Care Compromise, Emanuel Blue Dogs, Blue Dog Democrats, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Politics News

One of Congress's most liberal members, Rep. Maxine Waters, (D-Calif.), declared on Tuesday that the White House's problems getting Blue Dog Democrats...

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Battling the Blue Dogs

Steve Hildebrand | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Blue Dogs, Climate Change, Blue Dog Coalition, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Steve Hildebrand

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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Blue Dogs Should Demand CBO Report of Single Payer Savings

Michele Swenson | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corporate Lobbies, Comprehensive Health Care Coverage, Uninsured, Single Payer Cost Savings, Underinsured, Colorado Single Payer, Budget Deficit, Lewin Group Health Care Reform Evaluation, Blue Dog Democrats, Republican Deficit Hawks, Health Care Reform, Transparency, Politics News
Michele Swenson

An honest side-by-side analysis of the costs of all health care reform proposals, including the two single-payer bills, should be reviewed by Congress.

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Jo Versus the Zombies: A Burlesque Fight for Healthcare

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.27.2009 | Style

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

In one of the last civilized nations to deny universal health care to its citizens, just because we can put on a show, does not mean we should have to.

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Nothing Centrist About Them

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Centrist, Moderates, Health Care, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Katrina vanden Heuvel

So-called "centrists" are far from the center of the health care debate. They are, in fact, out of touch and out of the mainstream -- like the rest of their conservative brethren.

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Jason Linkins

Paul Krugman Attempts Divine Motivation Of Blue Dogs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Lobbying, Paul Krugman, Lobbyists, Blue Dog Democrats, Media News

Krugman, like many others, has noticed the essential incoherence in the Blue Dog stance on health care reform, and takes up the matter in his Times opinion column today.

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Blue Dog Dems: Are You Listening?

Denise Dennis | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Health Care Bill, Theodore Roosevelt, Health Caare Reform, Health Care Debate, Fdr, Health Care, Ee, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Denise Dennis

FDR's opponents called him a socialist and claimed that Social Security would be tantamount to a government take-over of their lives. Sound familiar?

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Krugman: What Do the Blue Dogs Want? Who Knows?

New York Times | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Paul Krugman, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Right now the fate of health care reform seems to rest in the hands of relatively conservative Democrats -- mainly members of the Blue Dog Coalition, ...

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Rep. Giffords Bucks Fellow "Blue Dogs," Supports Public Health Care Option

FIreDogLake | slinkerwink | Posted 08.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Care, Blue Dogs, Gabrielle Giffords, Democrats, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Gabrielle Giffords, a Blue Dog Democrat, wrote an editorial in the Arizona Daily Star, about the need for health care reform that includes a strong pu...

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Ryan Grim

Blue Dog Health Care Back On -- For Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Mike Ross, Henry Waxman, Ross Waxman, Blue Dogs Health Care Talks, Health Care Talks, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

Health care reform negotiations in the House, which had collapsed in an acrimonious heap earlier Friday, are now back on. Two Democrats who had been...

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Attack of the One-Percenters: Land Rover Liberals, Corrupt Cowboys & the Millionaire Media

David Sirota | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Blue Dogs, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
David Sirota

The health care debate has reminded us that there really are three separate but coordinated armies that will defend that status quo in Washington -- whether on health care or any other economic issue.

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Healthcare Exec Turned Whistleblower Thinks America Needs Universal Coverage

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Max Baucus, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

I interviewed Wendell Potter, the former chief PR person for one of the nation's largest insurers, who is now a whistleblower for Big Health, which he blames for leaving millions of Americans uninsured.

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Salon: Blue Dogs Put Corporate Interests Over Party, Constituents

Salon | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blue Dogs, Blue Dog Pac, Mike Ross, Lobbyists, Billy Tauzin, Blue Dog Coalition, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

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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