Thanks for exposing these Blue Dogs for the whores they really are. Trillions for the Military Industrial Complex, hundreds of billions for the Bankers, hundreds of millions for mercenaries; hundreds of thousands for education, and hundreds of dollars for voter “stimulus” checks.

That’s the idea, Bogi666; fact is, there is NO “change we can believe in”—and there won’t be as long as the Statist Party (which masquerades as two parties) has a death grip on American politics.

mdgr. all the more reason to call him President Obushama

The Blue Dog are looking for bribe money. They do so under both Republican and Democratic administrations, selling their vote[s] to the highest bidder. In fact those most in need of health care probably are Blue Dog constituents. They are also the most ignorant and gullible.

The truth of the matter is that there is a battle going on in the Democrat party. The President is calling for a Health Care Reform Bill.  And the Democrats have the vote to pass a health care bill; that is just the way it is. The current HR3200 public insurance plan bill does not include HR676 single payer public plan.  The Democrats are fighting over to allow an amendment of HR676 single payer public plan to be included in the Health Care Reform Bill.
The President and the Democratic caucus are allowing the American people to make a CHOICE to allow ‘single payer’ HR676 public plan to be included in the health care reform bill.
Single payer HR676 this amendment propels the growing single payer health care movement at the state level. There are at least ten states which have active single payer efforts in their legislatures. They are California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. The amendment mandates a single payer state will receive the right to waive the application of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which has in the past been used to nullify efforts to expand state or local government health care.
Under the Kucinich HR676 Amendment a state’s application for a waiver from ERISA is granted automatically if the state has signed into law a single payer plan. With the amendment, for the first time, the state single payer health care option is shielded from an ERISA-based legal attack. Now that the underlying bill has been passed, as amended, by the full committee, we must make sure that Congress knows that we want the provision kept in the bill at final passage!
So we can build full momentum behind this movement for real health care.  Please get involved and tell Congress you Support HR676 single payer public plan to be included in the health care reform bill. Right now the final bill does not include a single payer public plan.
The President wants to know if the American people support HR676 single payer public plan to be included in the health care reform bill.
HR676 single payer public plan was introduced to congress in 1945.  Single payer public plan is a progressive financial idea that allows the public plan to directly purchase health care services from health care providers. 
The medical industry and Congress has stopped single payer public plan for 64 years.
The American people have never been so close to a single payer public plan.  There has never been ‘single payer’ public option in America.
What about MASSACHUSETTS you say they have public health care.  No there needs to be an amendment to the tax law that mandates a single payer state will receive the right to waive the application of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
Massachusetts has a public insurance option just like HR3200 and NOT a single payer public plan like HR676.
Please let your Congressmen and Senators know that you support single payer HR676 public plan to be include in the Health Care Reform Bill.
Congress has been influenced by the 1.7 million dollars a day that the medical insurance industry; and the medical providers industry; and the pharmaceutical companies are spending to sway Congress and the public opinion against single payer public option.

This is a good article, but let it be known that the excessive influence of the Blue Dogs is to be found in an unexpected quarter.

In appointing the likes of Geithner and Summers and in doggedly endorsing their egregious diversion of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street., Obama himself can be said to have given the Blue Dogs most of their talking points.

If health care reform is hopelessly watered down, therefore, it won’t be because of the nasty Repugs or the Blue Dogs, but because a president whom we all expected much more of has performed in a manner that at best could be described as disappointing. His poll numbers are dropping like a stone. There is no surprise here, seeing as Obama’s theft of several trillion dollars was so publicly transparent.

There is a growing chance of a fascist takeover in this country in 2012. While many progressives like myself are beginning to loathe Obama, emotion itself shouldn’t be the determinative force of the hour. Strategic thinking is needed. Along these lines, what I am hoping that someone who is much more well-connected than me will publicly call for a mass resignation from the Democratic Party unless there is a major sea change from within the Party. Here, I am talking about ten million people.

I realize that almost certainly wouldn’t happen. One sees courageous acts of dissent elsewhere in the world but not in the United States, where the most radical thing that goes down is an online petition from Move-On.

My point, however, is that in order to truly make a change, we need to act in concert, and our actions need to be strategic, not just petulant.

I am hoping that someone would finally and eventually call for specific action steps, now that public consciousness has finally been raised. I doubt anyone will do that, however.

What the luminaries will probably continue to do is to say is “Goodness gracious me,” even as we continue to fall off the edge of the cliff. . . .

Red Dogs and Blue Hogs,
Righty grime and Lefty swine,
Share the grog, Share the wine.

In cahoots,
Cash in the boots,
The public they loot.

Spend on strife,
Cut back on life,
Cheat on the wife.

Vote for me,
I’ll set ya free,
Just watch TV.

These “Blue-Dogs” should rename themselves to republican!  The truth is Blue-Dogs are a series in the artwork of George Rodrigue - his artwork is cute, the Congressmen are not!

These people have been feeding at the trough of the Corporate Oligarchy for so long that they don’t know who they are anymore!  What really annoys me - their constituents that continue to put these selfish me first bast—ds into office!  I think that we need IQ tests for their constituencies, because these people obviously don’t have the common sense the good Lord gave them!

The only real “fiscal conservative” in either house of Congress, for what it’s worth, is Ron Paul ...

The so-called “Blue dogs” are for all intent and purpose Republicans posing as Democrats. If the Democrats were a real party they would oust these posers. The fact that they do not reveals that they are only the less ideologically extreme wing of the One Corporate Party.