Per usual, Blue Dog rats are jumping ship

[boomerbust]

Just when the Republican Party seems to be self destructing, the Blue Dogs are right there to save them. Obama is partly to blame. Campaigned as a Progressive but governs as a Wall Street Dem. I'll bet Bubba is getting the cold shoulder at home right about now.

[RandiFan1290]

1. The corporations pay big $$$ to buy both parties

People like Feinstein and Landrieu are there to make sure the publicons win every time.

[vi5]

2. So the blue dogs and the insurance companie

Are why the ACA was far less than optimal, and the concessions "we" made to them set it up for failure and now they are complaining that it's a failure.

They suck so badly but it serves "our side" right for catering and cowtowing to them. The ACA passed without Republican votes anyway so we didn't need to cater to them. But because heaven forbid we expected Obama or Reid to actually hold the blue dogs feet to the fire and make some threats and twist some arms, now we are stuck with a poorly executed, inching towards failure system.

But hey....."BIPARTISAN!!!!" "We're better than the Republicans!!! We don't march in lockstep!!!!"

Yeah, hows that all working out for us now.

[kelliekat44]

3. It's up to Dem voters to know who they are and what they stand for. We need to teach Dem

voters a "D" is not always a Dem in spirit and we need to vote them out of office when we can.

[Beach Rat]

4. Its Because the People We Elect..

aren't in the business of governing. They have two jobs...getting re-elected and serving the interests of their largest donors, not necessarily in that order. There is very little actual governing going on in the government right now.

[Threedifferentones]

11. Getting re-elected can be seen as their primary job.

The thing is that even though elections literally depend on votes, in practice votes require staggering amounts of money to obtain. This is because in general marketing/advertising trumps truth. Thus, any politician at a Federal or even State level is more beholden to the large donors that help him advertise than he is to the voters he advertises to.

[PassingFair]

6. Not just the "Blue Dogs"...the "New Dems" are turncoats as well.

This is exactly why I refused to work for Gary Peters here.
He is a puppet for $$$. Witness his vote in the recent house legislation that is unstitching
the belated safe guards against the type of chicanery that brought us
the 2008 bail-outs. Every other Michigan Congressperson
voted to stop this except Peters.

This legislation does NOTHING to help the people. It is all
about making the rich richer and the bankers more predatory.

Here's a list containing many of the co-opted:

The 70 Democrats that supported weakening Dodd-Frank to satisfy their donors:

Ron Barber (AZ-02)
John Barrow (GA-12)
Joyce Beatty (OH-03)
Ami Bera (CA-07)
Sanford Bishop (GA-02)
Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Corrine Brown (FL-05)
G. K. Butterfield (NC-01)
John Carney (DE-AL)
Yvette Clarke (NY-09)
Jim Clyburn (SC-06)
Gerry Connolly (VA-11)
Joe Crowley (NY-14)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
John Delaney (MD-06)
Tammy Duckworth (IL-08)
Eliot Engel (NY-16)
Elizabeth Esty (CT-05)
Bill Foster (IL-11)
Marcia Fudge (OH-11)
Pete Gallego (TX-23)
Joe Garcia (FL-26)
Colleen Hanabusa (HI-01)
Denny Heck (WA-10)
Jim Himes (CT-04)
Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15)
Steven Horsford (NV-04)
Steny Hoyer (MD-05)
Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08)
Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Robin Kelly (IL-02)
Derek Kilmer (WA-06)
Ron Kind (WI-03)
Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01)
Annie Kuster (NH-02)
Rick Larsen (WA-02)
John Larson (CT-01)
Daniel Lipinski (IL-03)
Nita Lowey (NY-17)
Dan Maffei (NY-24)
Carolyn Maloney (NY-12)
Sean Maloney (NY-18)
Jim Matheson (UT-02)
Mike McIntyre (NC-07)
Gregory Meeks (NY-05)
Grace Meng (NY-06)
Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Jim Moran (VA-08)
Patrick Murphy (FL-18)
Bill Owens (NY-21)
Ed Perlmutter (CO-07)
Scott Peters (CA-52)
Gary Peters (MI-14)
Jared Polis (CO-02)
Mike Quigley (IL-05)
Nick Rahall (WV-03)
Charlie Rangel (NY-13)
Cedric Richmond (LA-02)
Dutch Ruppersberger (MD-02)
Loretta Sanchez (CA-46)
Brad Schneider (IL-10)
David Scott (GA-13)
Terri Sewell (AL-07)
Brad Sherman (CA-30)
Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09)
Albio Sires (NJ-08)
Juan Vargas (CA-51)
Marc Veasey (TX-33)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23)
Frederica Wilson (FL-24)

[Oilwellian]

7. I've always thought...

the Blue Dogs were synonymous with the New Dems.

[PassingFair]

8. Two different caucuses.

The New Dems hide behind the Blue Dogs when dirty work is being done.

The "New Dems" are the old "DLC".

Ideological conferences

Other caucuses are organized political factions with a common ideological orientation:

On the Democratic side, there is the Blue Dog Coalition (conservative Democrats), the New Democrat Coalition (moderate Democrats), and the Congressional Progressive Caucus (liberal and progressive Democrats).

[WorseBeforeBetter]

9. The moderates in the party? The Sensible Centrists? The Woodchucks?

The non-HowlingEmoBlackHelicopterLeftieLeftists? But they're CRUCIAL to the Democratic Party!

[NuclearDem]

10. It's alright, once we elect Hillary it'll all get bett--

Sorry, I couldn't even finish that sentence.