Blue Dogs betray liberals, liberals for some reason surprised

Alternate headline for this story from The Hill: "House liberals shocked as Blue Dogs pull football away, again."

Progressive Democrats approved the passage of pay-as-you-go rules as a favor to conservative Blue Dog Democrats. In return, the Blue Dog Democrats were supposed to, you know, act like Democrats, and pass legislation to help the unemployed and fund schools and healthcare and other things that many Democrats got into politics to do.

But there was apparently a bit of a misunderstanding! The progressives actually thought the Blue Dogs weren't too cowardly and duplicitous to spend money on the disadvantaged and downtrodden:



Sure, there are millions of people without jobs, and extending unemployment would provide an immediate boost to the economy, but top economists all agree that the deficit will go away forever as soon as we stop giving money to poor people.

(Blue Dogs are all totally fine with "emergency" funding for endless wars and billion dollar jet engines and things like that, obviously.)

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/06/10/blue_dog_betrayal

You've got the Democratic Party you deserve!!


:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

all though I do understand why some want to act surprised.:mad:

... legitimate, transparent rep democracy

party of one, so it always starts off on the wrong foot IMO.

campaigned on those goals and generally vote that way.

They also know if they don't vote that way they will lose in the next election to an opponent who does vote for that liberal agenda.

Apparently many have redefined the word liberal and also naively believe a congressperson should vote as directed by some party hack rather than for their constituents.

My understanding of FDR (Democratic) liberalism is very different.

:dem:

-Laelth

"progressive" use them to push "socialist" goals.

Wikipedia has some interesting statements and links under the title Liberalism worldwide.

My point is the word "liberal" has many different meanings today and I find that I as a self-proclaimed "liberal" am often at odds with another who is just as adamant that she/he is a "liberal".

:shrug:

will do. If someone took the time, they would find they
(just like GOP) are more conservative and concerned with
only Business's Interests than their constituents.