This is a moment where we should not criticize Blue Dogs but tell them we got their backs

[Perky]

I am absolutely serious.

We need to tell them they will have our dull throated support on re-election if they vote for HCR.

Any on wo thingks party purioty is more important the Health Car reform is just nuts.

[mod mom]

1. I don't have their back and they don't have my votes. Enough w the corporatists!

[closeupready]

11. lol, got that right.

:)

[The Magistrate]

2. Telling Them That, Sir, Is An Excellent Idea

Providing it is done convincingly, and the knife held well-concealed in readiness for employment in primary season....

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' while feeling about for a rock."

[Perky]

7. Agered...

[flpoljunkie]

10. Well put, Magistrate!

[Bobbie Jo]

12. Absolutely right. nt

[hlthe2b]

3. Until the next critical vote...

I'm sorry, but the "Charlie Brown" strategy vis-a-vis Lucy and the football, has gotten rather old...

This dog can learn a new trick or two (or at least not continue to commit the same mistakes).

If these Blue Dogs have any functioning synapses left, they already KNOW their only chance is to come around on this vote. Let them show THEIR loyalty for once and then maybe the voters will reassess.

[randr]

4. I will be telling them that if they don't vote they will have hell to pay

[tallahasseedem]

5. Nope.

We've already tried that and it bites us in the ass everytime. They need to have OUR backs...period.

[freddie mertz]

6. Donate to defeat Blanche Lincoln is more like it.

Blue Dogs begone.

[zipplewrath]

8. So one vote buys 5 years?

After a year of conspiring with the GOP to block real health care reform, we're suppose to promise them re-election if they'll vote on one watered down bill, 6 months late? All that will do is get us more Joe Lieberman's. Rahm send ya this strategy?

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Sorry, but I'm not surprised you'd promote such foolishness

I do not support conservatives. I'm not one of them. They don't have my back, there are none of them in my State to deal with, and as far as the rest of the garbage goes, I'll call stank stank when it stanks, thanks.

[Clio the Leo]

13. And to invite them over for cocktails....

... oh to be a fly on the East Room wall tonight!

The White House released this list of Democrats invited to a PAYGO reception with President Obama at 5:30 p.m., according to the pool:

1. Senator Mark Begich, D-AK
2. Senator Michael Bennet, D-CO
3. Senator Kent Conrad, D-ND
4. Senator Claire McCaskill, D-MO
5. Senator Arlen Specter, D-PA
6. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA
7. Representative Steny Hoyer, D-MD, Majority Leader
8. Representative Jim Clyburn, D-SC, Majority Whip
9. Representative Jason Altmire, D-PA
10. Representative Leonard Boswell, D_IA
11. Representative Allen Boyd, D-FL
12. Representative Dennis Cardoza, D-CA
13. Representative Jim Cooper, D-TN
14. Representative Henry Cuellar, D-TX
15. Representative Lincoln Davis, D-TN
16. Representative Jane Harman, D-CA
17. Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-SD
18. Representative Baron Hill, D-IN
19. Representative Frank Kratovil, D-MD
20. Representative Betsy Markey, D-CO
21. Representative Jim Matheson, D-UT
22. Representative Dennis Moore, D-KS
23. Representative Earl Pomeroy, D-ND
24. Representative Scott Murphy, D-NY
25. Representative John Salazar, D-CO
26. Representative Kurt Schrader, D-OR
27. Representative Heath Shuler, D-NC
28. Representative John Spratt, D-SC
29. Representative John Tanner, D-TN
30. Representative Peter Welch, D-VT
31. Representative Charlie Wilson, D-OH

[DevonRex]

14. Oh man, you're right. I would certainly love to hear what goes on

at that little gathering. And as usual, there are those 3 from Colorado. Get 'em Barack!

[Clio the Leo]

16. The President will, no doubt, be grabbing a lot of shoulders...

.... like this...

[DevonRex]

17. And hopefully digging in with his fingers, too. And if that doesn't work

then some dead fish and fake horses' heads need to be delivered.

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[Sebastian Doyle]

18. No, that's what we should have told them LAST year at this time.

Vote for a REAL health care reform bill, and you will be re-elected in a landslide.

Vote against it, or neuter it into a piece of corporate bailout shit, and your DINO ass goes down in the primary.

If that had been the message, do you think we would be looking at such a pathetic bill today?

[elizm]

19. Throw the bums out. nt

[depakid]

20. The prospect of losing their jobs with a no vote is more effective

and the more intelligent among them have already figured that out...