Blue Dogs, Pelosi and the DCCC: A Perverse Correlation

[BurtWorm]

Howie Klein looks at the effect opposition to Nancy Pelosi had on the amount of money blue dogs received from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee:


http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/11/did-throwing-pelosi-under-bus-save-any.html




Conservative Democrats-- primarily Blue Dogs-- have gone to great lengths to distance themselves from the first female Speaker of the House, the leader of their own caucus, Nancy Pelosi and from the Democratic agenda. Some have publicly vowed to oppose her reelection as Speaker. What kind of a message do you think this sends people about Democrats and the Democratic brand? And it isn't just the Bobby Bright and Jim Marshall TV ads we looked at in the last couple of weeks. The Hill counted 5 incumbents and 8 challengers who told voters they would not vote for Pelosi:

• Ala. Rep. Bobby Bright: “I am not going to vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. Neither the leader of the minority party, John Boehner, nor the present speaker, will get my vote. I will vote for someone, a centrist, who is much more like me.” <$1,411,243.95>

• Ga. Rep. Jim Marshall: “My candidate’s going to be somebody who’s a centrist, preferably somebody who’s going to be speaker of the entire House” <$42,321.21>

• Miss. Rep. Gene Taylor: “I will not be voting for her again.” <$156,326.93>

• N.C. Rep. Mike McIntyre: “From what we're hearing, she's probably not going to run for speaker again. And if she does, I'm confident she's going to have opposition, and I look forward to supporting that opposition.” <$270,224.62>

• Pa. Rep. Jason Altmire: Next Congress would “certainly necessitate new leadership in the Speaker’s position.”


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The number in brackets I inserted is how much the DCCC has spent, just in Independent Expenditures, on trying to elect these worthless Benedict Arnolds this cycle. Keep in mind, because the DCCC decided to spend the bulk of it's $65.103,409.58 on this garbage, there was no money to spend on actual Democrats who stand up for working families, stalwarts like Alan Grayson, Carol Shea-Porter, and Mary Jo Kilroy.

Some say-- including poor Pelosi-- that this isn't a problem and that all the Democratic caucus wants is for these people to be reelected. And there lies the root of the problem. Why? Why re-elect Bobby Bright? He claims he voted with Boehner 80% of the time. That barely scratches the surface of his record. When it came to contentious, substantive issues where the House divided by party, Bright not only voted with the Republicans nearly every single time, he do so more frequently than conservative Republicans like Ron Paul (R-TX), Walter Jones (R-NC), Vern Ehlers (R-MI), and Tim Johnson (R-IL). It wasn't just on healthcare reform, women's Choice, gay equality, and Wall Street reform where Bright, and many of these other Blue Dogs crossed the aisle; Bright even voted against the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (SCHIP), which was aimed to help better the lives of the very constituents who helped him eke out a narrow win in 2008. Interestingly 40 Republicans voted for it while it was only Bright and-- guess who-- Jim Marshall who stood by Boehner and Cantor when they tried to torpedo it. And yet, the DCCC will have spent nearly $4,000,000 on trying to get and keep this creep in Congress since 2008. That $4,000,000 could have been much better used. Bright, however, knew exactly which consultants tied to the decision makers to use. We'll get into that more fully when the dust has settled a bit.

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[Crazy Dave]

1. I see the Blue Dogs going copycat Tea Party in 2012

They will even try to bring down Obama in the general election just to prove to their supporters how much they hate his "spending and healthcare" policies.

It's just a prediction but it's things I've already heard some democratic candidates say and ones who did not even want him to visit their state during the campaigns.

[kctim]

2. So Howie

would rather those Democrats vote for Republicans to represent them in Congress and for the Republican Presidential candidate?

No doubt a great plan and the answer to all problems.
:sarcasm: