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Obama and Bright Lines in the Sand

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama again refused to give a strong defense of the public option himself. By doing so, he just dug the hole deeper. What exactly does Obama stand for in the health care debate?

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Dems, GOP Centrists Hold Secret Meetings To Work Together On Health Care Reform

The Hill | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics

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Centrist House lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are working together privately on healthcare reform. The talks have been so secretive and pol...

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Ryan Grim

Blue Dogs Backsliding On Anti-Health Care Reform Backsliding

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) is "unwavering" in her opposition to a Blue Dog Coalition health care position issued late last week, she said Tuesday. Th...

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Ryan Grim

Blue Dogs Backsliding On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

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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. ...

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Blue Dog Democrats Complain Of Being Shut Out Of Health Care Debate

New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics

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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...

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'Blue Dog' Democrats Demand Billions In Pet Projects

Bloomberg | Posted 05.07.2009 | 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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Paul Ryan Throws A Poisoned T-Bone Towards The Blue Dogs

Howie Klein | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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Howie Klein

Last week Ryan did something he had never ever, ever thought he would do -- he voted against the rich, corrupt banksters who have completely financed his disgraceful political career.

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Time to Dog the Dogs

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

The most treacherous opposition to reform actually comes from within the Democratic Party itself, from so-called "moderate" and conservative Democrats, particularly the Blue Dogs.

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Anti-EFCA Dem Linked To Dead Worker In New Union TV Ad

The Plum Line | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

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This is some rough stuff. The SEIU has just launched a hard-hitting Web video that ties Blue Dog Democrat Dan Boren to the horrific death of a worker ...

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Blue Dog Democrats and Republican Triangulation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

We must not allow the Blue Dogs to slow down President Obama's momentum or water down the sweeping reforms the nation needs in these trying economic times.

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Exclusive Interview With Rep. Bruce Braley, Populist Caucus Founder And Chairman

Chris Weigant | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Representative Bruce Braley recently announced the formation of a new congressional caucus dedicated to the economic concerns of the middle class. Th...

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GOP Moderates Live In Fear Of Right-Wing Republican Study Committee

CQ | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

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President Obama's enviable poll numbers have yet to persuade moderate House Republicans to back key parts of the new administration's economic agenda....

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How The Centrist Blue Dog Caucus Got So Much Power

The Nation | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

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The House of Representatives is a body that produces few stars, but Jim Cooper of Tennessee is a household name inside the Beltway. David Brooks has c...

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Obama To Meet With Blue Dog Democrats, Sell Stimulus

Washington Times | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

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President Obama, following a day trip to Florida Tuesday to once again sell his stimulus plan, will host the 49 conservative House Democrat members of...

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Obama Financial Team to Taxpayers: You'll Get Nothing, and Like It

Jane Hamsher | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

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Jane Hamsher

There's nothing that prevents the public from getting their fair share of any future bank profits appropriate to the high risk investment they are being forced to make.

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Kennedy Out, Gillibrand In

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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Allison Kilkenny

Gillibrand is a pro-gun, fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrat, which is the name moderate Democrats gave themselves so people stopped confusing them with Republicans.

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Waxman Defeats Dingall, Blue Dogs Get Spanked

Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

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Jane Hamsher

This week the Senate voted to remain an exclusive club of self-protection and entitlement by letting Bush enabler Joe Lieberman keep his gavel, but the House has voted for progress.

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Blue America PAC Takes On Freedom's Watch Billionaires

Howie Klein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

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Howie Klein

We went into overdrive and put together an incredible team to write, produce and deliver calls to every person Freedom's Watch has attacked with robo calls in nearly 20 Democractic districts.

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Conservatism Is Dead; Long Live Liberalism? (Part II)

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics

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Amitai Etzioni

The conservatives' well of ideas may well have run dry, but the American majority has hardly turned liberal. So could the most compelling ideas be neither conservative nor liberal but communitarian?

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Why Congress Treats The Constitution Like A Toy

Art Brodsky | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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Art Brodsky

On FISA, our "legislators" had to legislate, or else they would be made to look bad by a president whose policies are now opposed by about 80 percent of the American people.

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Blue Dogs Are Now Silver Foxes

Major R. Owens | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

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Major R. Owens

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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Business as Usual: Troops Wait While Congress "Governs"

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

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Paul Rieckhoff

It's like a pilot crashing a plane because he was too busy giving all the passengers their complementary peanuts.

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Warrantless Wiretaps And Retroactive Immunity Are Un-American

Howie Klein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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Howie Klein

Wiretapping American citizens without a warrant is not part of a progressive vision for national security -- nor is granting retroactive immunity to criminal executives of major corporate donors to political campaigns.

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Lobbysts, Corporations Giving Heaps Of Cash To Conservative Dems

CQ | Alan Ota | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

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Once a splinter group with Southern, populist roots, the Blue Dog Coalition has become a pinstriped national alliance with ties to K Street and a penc...

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"Conservative" Dems, Or Just Plain Corrupt?

David Sirota | Posted 11.30.2007 | Business

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David Sirota

Government opposition to Brad Miller's bill is yet another example of how the term "conservatism" has become a synonym for "corrruption" - in this case, to defend predatory lenders.

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