Is there a list of "Blue Dog" Democrats somewhere?

[yurbud]

I'm thinking they need some cards, letters, and faxes about what they need to do to "support the troops."

It might also be interesting to run their names through the oil change check of big oil political donations:

http://www.priceofoil.org/oilandstate/

[Nite Owl]

1. Here ya go...

http://www.house.gov/ross/BlueDogs/Member%20Page.html


The only thing that they agree to vote on as a group are fiscal matters, pay go, other than that they are pretty varied. My congresswoman belongs to that group and she is pro choice for example. I wish she didn't though because all it does is give this group more credence. They are the votes that the cons depend on for things like the bankruptcy bill and the military accountability act (or whatever that was called, the one that took away the right to habeous corpus).

[yurbud]

2. we have two business parties: one with religious nuts and one without.

We essentially have two business parties, one with taliban window dressing, and one with secular window dressing.

They take positions whether to let gays marry or burn them at the stake, abortion, or prayer in school to get our votes. Then once in office, they do what they are told by the Chamber of Commerce. In New Zealand, people figured out that their Labor Party had been co-opted by big business, so they had to split off and form a new one, which of course meant they were LESS likely to take the reins for a while.

I'm not sure how you could totally purge those for profit parasites out of government, but if we don't, we'll have more wars, and keep sliding toward a Third World standard of living so long as someone can profit from it.