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We can't help what your family is. If you think all Democrats are alike, you need to read up on the Blue Dogs who, ironically, opposed the tax deal and many opposed the health care initiative as it was finally voted upon.
Laughable. Blue Dogs were told how to vote by Pelosi, and some were given passes if their votes weren't needed. You certainly can't be so naive as to not have seen the game if you watched CSPAN at all during critical votes.
If you want to see what being a Blue Dog actually means, take a look at this link.
http://www.getliberty.org/files/Blue Dogs and Moderate Democrats Voting Records.pdf
Blue Dogs do not exist.
That link would require days of research to see which bills the votes referred to. Is that all you've got?
Yes, in the final analysis, the Blue Dogs will vote the party platform as floor debates resolve for a final bill, but the debates leading up to important policy bills are a different story. And they HAVE made major differences in the context, including the health care reform bill. That's what I was talking about, not the final vote tally of all bills for the 110th Congress. Sheesh.
Days? They are listed right at the bottom.
H. Res. 5 – Rules of the House
HR 1 ‐‐ $819 billion “stimulus”
HR 1 Conf. ‐‐ $789 billion “stimulus”
HR 1106 – bankruptcy mortgage “cramdowns”
HR 1388 – national service bill w/ ACORN funding
HR 1728 – ACORN funding in “Anti‐Predatory Lending Act”
H. Res . 425 – Vote to Table Flake Resolution Against Murtha Corruption
HR 2346 ‐‐ $108 billion IMF expansion
HR 2454 – Waxman‐Markey “Cap‐and‐Tax”
HR 3962 – $2.1 trillion House “public option”
HR 2847 ‐‐ $154 billion bankrupt state‐union bailout
HR 4314 – $290 billion debt limit expansion
ETA: And if you think the Blue Dogs had anything to do with Obamacare you are just believing that there was sanity involved in the process.
Unless you are talking about Stupak, who was used and abused and thrown out with the bath water.
And to add: Pelosi controlled every Dem vote.
Here is what she said about Obamacare and the Blue Dogs:
“The Blue Dogs didn’t like it when I said I had the votes to pass it, because that was indirectly saying to them: ‘their members are going to vote for this’…I promise you that we will have a bill, it will be strong, we will have the votes for it.” – Pelosi
Guess she was right.
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