Blue Dogs get more money from Big Pharma...

[Slit Skirt]

WE NEED TO NAIL THESE GUYS

Blue Dog opposition may be ‘underwritten’ by pharmaceutical giants
Typical “Blue Dog” Democrats — moderate members of Congress who have been the most ardent among Obama’s own party in thwarting ongoing national healthcare legislation — receive 25 percent more campaign cash from the healthcare and insurance industry than other Democrats, an investigation has found....

...The average Blue Dog got more than half (54 percent) of total 2009 financial contributions from the medical care industry. Its PAC has more than doubled in size since 2005 — at a time when both national Republican and Democratic campaign committees reported double-digit drops in funding.

...MORE http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/31/blue-dog-donations-health-reform/





I give no slack to people obstructing health care...when the very dollars that allows THEM health care is out of my pocket

[JuniperLea]

1. "people obstructing health care... "

We should call them by their proper moniker: murderers.

[Slit Skirt]

3. agreed...they're not blue dog democrats

they are blood dollar murderers

[JuniperLea]

6. Cha ching...

Well said.

[iamthebandfanman]

7. means the same to me.

and are completely interchangable.


there are no 'moderate' democrats in office, just corporate whores trying to put some dollars in their pocket.

[Bill219]

2. US Sen Finance Staffer Exhorts Lobbyists To Get Behind Talks

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200907302105dowjonesdjonline001148&title=us-sen-finance-staffer-exhorts-lobbyists-to-get-behind-talks



US Sen Finance Staffer Exhorts Lobbyists To Get Behind Talks


By Martin Vaughan, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A top staffer for Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., warned a group of business lobbyists Thursday that if they don't help bipartisan Senate negotiations on health care to succeed, they might get stuck with Democrat- written provisions they won't like.

The remarks by Jon Selib, chief of staff to Baucus, were made in a closed-door meeting with about 20 lobbyists for employer groups and the insurance industry, and recounted to Dow Jones by people in the meeting.

According to participants, Selib said public statements by Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, are undermining the bipartisan talks. He told lobbyists that if the group does not strike an agreement by next week, the result could be that Democratic leaders will abandon the bipartisan talks and pass a Democrat-written bill through the Senate.

[Slit Skirt]

4. what a sob...

I hope people keep adding to this thread...I have a few people I am going to send this to

[Bill219]

5. what really pissed me off when I read it

was this quote...

"they might get stuck with Democrat- written provisions they won't like."

Fuck Baucus and the other blue dogs

[annabanana]

8. They subsist on blood money.

They should be ashamed.

[global1]

9. Best Congress Money Can Buy!!!!........nt