Henry Cuellar

Over a million more people watched the Democratic Convention than watched the Republican convention. The L.A.

Last December I wrote that Ben Ray Luján, Pelosi's pick to head the DCCC-- the guy who would be in charge of recruiting, training and electing House Democrats-- was still one of the conservative Democrats on the payroll of the gun lobbyists. As recently as 2005 there were dozens of House Democrats who routinely sided with the NRA and who solicited NRA contributions, mostly Blue Dogs and New Dems.

A national poll from Quinnipiac in July came up with some startling results: 92% of respondents favor background checks for all gun purchases, and that includes 86% of Republicans. 90% of Republicans and 91% of Democrats also support Congress passing laws preventing people with mental illness from purchasing guns. I'm not even sure why I referred to those results as "startling." Two decades ago, on May 3, 1995, then-President George H.W.

Often Democratic acquaintances of mine makes excuses for Blue Dogs and New Dems-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- and their horrible voting records vy saying, "but look how red is district is." And sure enough, the 8 most prohibitively Republican districts held by Democrats are all held by Blue Dogs and New Dems with horrible anti-progressive voting records: