Blue Dogs Suddenly Don’t Like Crap Sandwich

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  February 5th at 03:12 PM  | 

It is starting to seem that Barack Obama and Harry Reid may finally be browbeating enough Senators to get 60 votes for their debt spending bill. The word is that moderates might be coalescing together on a compromise at around $800 billion or so. But just as if the Democrats seem like they might be pulling it together to pass a terrible bill through the | Read More »

“Blue Dogs” Spin Some Nonsense

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  December 31st at 01:16 PM  | 

I’ve written before about the move by House “Blue Dogs” to roll over and agree to dramatically increase the federal deficit to pay for pork-barrel projects. So far the Blue Dog strategy seems to be to forget about balancing the budget for the foreseeable future in exchange for a vague promise down the road. It seems that Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin — the chief architect | Read More »