Blue Dog Dems VS Repug Voting Record

[Pryderi]

I'll take a Blue Dog Dem that votes for the Dem agenda 60-100% over a rethug that votes with the dems 0-5% of the time

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_20090803/ai_n35525122/

HR 2: State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)- The passage of SCHIP was the beginning of increased government interference in healihcare. SCHIP increased the cost of tobacco products in order to offset the $35 billion dollar expansion of the program. The Washington Post reported that GOP critics said the "proposals will slow the economy, dramatically increase the deficit and make health care worse for the millions who already have insurance." 96% of all Blue Dogs voted for the expansion with Hoyer.

HR 384: Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) - Set conditions for using the second $350 billion of the $700 billion TARP bailout provided to failing banks, insurers, and automakers that included huge amounts of money spend on localized projects that had little to do with the failing economy. 82% of all Blue Dogs voted with Hoyer.

HR 1: Economic Stimulus - $787 billion spending package (the largest in U.S. history) that Democrats said was needed to restore the ailing economy. Not one House Republican voted for the bill. 80% of all Blue Dogs voted with Hoyer for the spending package.

HR 1: Economic Stimulus Substitute Republican alternative to stimulus package that pushed for economical growth by way of investments rather than taxation. 96% of aJ] Blue Dogs voted with Hoyer against the substitute.

HR 1 105: Fiscal 2009 Omnibus Appropriations - This $410 billion bill passed with over 8,500 earmarks. 69% of all Blue Dogs voted with Hoyer for this bilL

HR 1106: Mortgage Loans Modification - Passage of this bill gave bankruptcy courts the authority to modify the terms or reduce the principal balance of a homeowner's mortgage. It permitted homeowners to file bankruptcy if the current value of their home is less than the amount owed on it. By doing this, banks have affectively lost their ability to write and have borrowers keep the terms of their loans. 68% of the Bhie Dogs who voted, voted with Hoyer.

H Con Res 85: Fiscal 2010 Budget Resolution - Obama's $3.6 trillion budget included large tax increases on small businesses, proposed a $646 billion tax on families through "Cap and Trade" legislation, and a resurrection of the Death Tax. Again not one House Republican voted for the bill, but 73% of the Blue Dogs who voted, voted with Hoyer.

[onenote]

1. no no no. haven't you been paying attention. we'd be better off if none had ever been elected

even, apparently, if that meant none of those bills had passed.

[stray cat]

2. You would probably take being in charge of the house and senate

to being the minority party as well. I know I would

[gratuitous]

3. Maybe if they'd been more consistenly Democratic

Their constituents wouldn't have voted out quite so many of them. Better the genuine article Republican motherfucker than some ersatz stand-in, yanno?

[TheWraith]

6. If they'd been more consistently Democratic, more of them would have been thrown out.

They occupy the most Republican districts, remember? The crap going around DU that somehow people wanted a congress farther left, so they elected the most extreme right-wing Republicans they could, is simply nuts.

[gratuitous]

9. Well, we'll certainly never know

Because the Blue Dogs in particular ran such spirited campaigns against their own party.

[Pryderi]

4. Interesting. I had 1 rec earlier, I seem to have 2 supporting comments but 0 recs..

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[11 Bravo]

8. You fucked up. You made a positive comment about Democrats on "Democratic" Underground.

That's a guaranteed unrec magnet.

[Tesha]

5. You will; many of us won't any more.

I'd rather see a Democratic Party that has a "brand" that
actually *STANDS FOR SOMETHING* again, instead a party
that can accommodate politicians who would be happier
being Republicans.

Tesha

[Pryderi]

10. Nancy Pelosi passed tons of legislation that got blocked in the Senate. Don't blame blue dogs for

Harry Reid's weakness.