Blue Dog scum spend their time in Congress voting with the Republicans. They are the foundation, along with the Wall Street-owned New Dems, of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party. And sooner or later, the Blue Dogs tend to jump the fence and officially become Republicans-- though not before the DCCC wastes millions and millions of dollars trying to prop them up.
Democrats are rending their garments over Virginia state Senator Phillip Puckett's decision to throw the Senate over to the Republicans by trading his seat for a job as deputy director of the state tobacco commission and for his daughter, Martha Ketron, to get a judicial appointment. But they shouldn't be surprised.
Scott Fistler (R-AZ) disguised as a Democrat and a LatinoYesterday and the day before we talked about Blue Dogs Gene Taylor (MS) and Janice Pauls (KS) making the natural transition from Blue Dog-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Part
Sunday morning we asked what it's like to be a Blue Dog in America today. And the picture that emerged was far from pretty. When looking at the natural progression from Blue Dog-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- to plain old Republican, we focused on the freak from Kansas who led the anti-gay and anti-Choice forces of hatred and bigotry in her badly afflicted state, Janice Pauls, finally finding her natural home in the GOP.
When John Barrow first ran for Congress in 2004, friends of mine in Athens persuaded me that he had been a liberal county commissioner and had a chance to replace freshman GOP extremist Max Burns in Congress. I wrote a maxed-out check. It didn't take long before I realized I'd made an error. Towards the end of the campaign Barrow revealed what a slimy worm he is. He called me to tell me that although he personally had nothing against gay people, he had to campaign as though he did. I didn't think to ask for my money back.
