The Blue Dogs Need To Hear From You
Hugh Hewitt writes:
The announcement by Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak that he and a dozen others Democrats would not vote for the Senate bill because it provides for taxpayer-funding of abortion greatly complicates Nancy Pelosi’s task.
What MSM has not done, however, is to report on who these dozen members are, or how the count [...]
2010 Watch: Kinzinger versus Halvorson
Democrats won congressional campaigns in 2006 and 2008 campaigning as moderates. The party fielded candidates with attractive personal stories who did not stray far from the center. One of those candidates was former Mary Kay cosmetics saleswoman Debbie Halvorson, a freshman elected in 2008 in Illinois's Eleventh Congressional District.
This was no ordinary victory. Illinois 11 [...]
Sweet Tea for GOP in Alabama
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Don Odom stood quietly at the back of a
conference room Saturday morning at the Renaissance Hotel. Tall
and muscular, with a shaved head, goatee and wire-rim glasses,
Odom has never been officially involved with the Alabama GOP. The
truck driver from Dothan said he hadn’t been [...]
A switch in time
Rep. Parker Griffith, an Alabama Democrat, is switching parties. Griffith is a medical doctor, so Obamacare provides him with a good explanation — beyond mere opportunism — for why he’s switching now.
The conversion of an Alabama politician to the Republican party may not seem terribly significant and standing alone [...]
Health-Care Bill Passes Energy & Commerce Committee 31 to 28
Blue Dogs Bart Gordon (Tenn.), Baron Hill (Ind.), Mike Ross (Ark.), and Zack Space (Ohio) vote yes.
Blue Dogs Jim Matheson (Utah), Charlie Melancon (La.), John Barrow (Ga.), and non-Blue Dog Democrats Bart Stupak (Mich.) & Rick Boucher (Va.) vote no.
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Will Waxman’s Deal with the Blue Dogs Survive?
After liberal Democrats forced the Energy and Commerce Committee to delay its health-care bill mark-up last night over objections to the deal that Chairman Henry Waxman had cut with four Blue Dogs on the committee, mark-up started back up again this morning and will continue until midnight, Capitol Hill aides say. Mark-up will resume tomorrow, [...]
