The Congressional Black Caucus is blasting away at Blue Dog Democrats and other fiscal conservatives in their own party for making "spurious" claims a...
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
Members of the House of Representatives once again canceled a health care markup session on Thursday after negotiations with Blue Dog Democrats stalle...
Sue Wilson | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
22 percent of Americans get their news from talk radio, and conservative talkers, like Hannity and Limbaugh, have been lying to their listeners about what's in the health care bill.
Jonathan Richards | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
As Obama tries to reform health care, his Blue Dog companions may not be man's best friend. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce was supposed to be the third leg supporting health care reform legislation already approved by two other Ho...
David Sirota | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
When the media depict Sen. Baucus, who represents one of the poorest states in the country, as opposing real health care reform because he's from a "conservative state," that's a lotta horses**t.
FOX News | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
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...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics
To hear the Republican rhetoric, health care reform is not socialism: it's the first domino on the path to full-blown Marxist-Leninist hell.
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.
Les Leopold | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business
If we weren't so hung up on anti-government ideology, we could have turned the stimulus money into 13 million public sector jobs.
Noelle Cigarroa Perese | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics
If more than 40 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus take the pledge to support a public option, then we know they're serious about health care reform and aren't just spouting words.
AP | DAVID ESPO and ERICA WERNER | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The drive to remake the nation's health care system suffered yet another setback in Congress on Thursday when a pivotal group of Ho...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
This is not time for half-measures that won't get the job done. If Obama is going to deliver on his promise of change, this is the the time and healthcare reform with a public option is the issue.
Robert L. Borosage | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
In the new economy emerging out of the calamity, we need progressive tax reform and increased public investment. This week, progressive legislators will try to figure out where they stand on this.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
Sadly, the main figures who will likely end up blocking the health care plan are not Republicans, but a small handful of Blue Dog conservative Democrats in the Senate.
Bill Scher | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Everybody in the nation wants a public plan option. Both the NBC/WSJ poll and the NYT/CBS poll found overwhelming support, about 75%, for a public plan option.
Sandy Maisel | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
I have just finished watching the Sunday talk shows. All in all -- and this from a Sunday morning talk show junkie -- a pretty poor excuse for analysis of what's going on in Washington.
Bob Cesca | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics
I can think of no other American industry that more closely resembles a criminal shakedown of the public than the health insurers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Conservative House Democrats agreed to a set of health care principles late last week that angered advocates of a overhaul of the health care system. ...
New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
Forty-five House Democrats in the party's moderate-to-conservative wing have protested the secretive process by which party leaders in their chamber a...
Bloomberg | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
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...
Jonah Lalas | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
Firing someone for expressing an opinion should be branded "un-American" and identified as something you would expect from a dictatorial regime
Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
There will be plenty of battles in and outside the Democratic Party in the months to come; what is evident now is the very real and uncertain shift toward to left's slightly more pluralistic platform.
Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics
Independent journalists have tried to shine a spotlight on how groups like the Center for American Progress and MoveOn are now supporting the continuation of wars because their guy is now commander-in-chief.
The Plum Line | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics
Something to watch for for: Dems in Congress who, worried about cuts to defense programs in their states in the proposed restructuring of the Pentago...
Politico | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics