Liberal groups launch ad attack; 'payback time' for Blue Dogs

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/67171-payback-time-for-blue-dogs-liberals-say


Liberal groups launch ad attack; 'payback time' for Blue Dogs
By Eric Zimmermann - 11/10/09 12:31 PM ET


A liberal activist group has decided to run ads attacking 10 centrist Democrats who voted against the House healthcare bill last week.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) e-mailed supporters on Tuesday asking for funds to take on Blue Dogs and other "bad Democrats."

"They betrayed us on this core Democratic issue," PCCC co-founder Aaron Swartz wrote. "It's payback time."

The targeted lawmakers are largely Blue Dog Democrats.

"Blue Dog Democrats are wholly owned subsidiaries of corporate America, and they will pay a political price back home for putting their corporate contributors ahead of their constituents who want reform," said PCCC co-founder Adam Green.

On a similar note, Americans United for Change will run ads congraulating Democrats who did vote for reform.

The full list of Democratic targets:

Rep. John Barrow (D-Ga.)
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.)
Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.)
Rep. Scott Murphy (D-N.Y.)
Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.)
Rep. Glenn Nye (D-Va.)
Rep. Larry Kissell (D-N.C.)
Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.)
Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (D-Fla.)
Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.)

[The Magistrate]

1. A Well-Judged Rogues Gallery, Ma'am

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2. Not going after Kratovil (D-MD)?

Why the hell not?

[doc03]

3. The extreme right is hell bent on

purging the moderates and starting a civil war in their party. So now the extreme left wants to start a civil war among Democrats. Absolute brilliant strategery.

[depakid]

4. Extreme left?

You mean people who support traditional Democratic values?

And responsible health care and economic reforms?

[doc03]

5. Yes we need moderate and conservative Democrats

to keep the far left in check. We have those that want to confiscate everyone's firearms, shut down every industrial plant, and turn us all into vegetarians. Same on the Republican side they need some reasonable people to counteract the Sarah Palin's.

[CLANG]

6. I'm about as far left as you can get

and I've never wanted to do any of those things. Far left to me is a radical departure from the far right. Telling the truth, having compassion, empathy, and wanting to share the wealth with the poorer souls among us. The rest of the attributes you give to the far left are right-wing talking points, nothing more. Have you been listening to Rush again?

[AlinPA]

7. My problem with them is that there are so damn many of them. Here's a more complete list:

Jason Altmire (PA-4)
Mike Arcuri (NY-24)
Joe Baca (CA-43)
John Barrow (GA-12)
Melissa Bean (IL-8)
Marion Berry (AR-1)
Sanford Bishop (GA-2)
Dan Boren (OK-2)
Leonard Boswell (IA-3)
Allen Boyd (FL-2)
Bobby Bright (AL-2)
Dennis Cardoza (CA-18)
Christopher Carney (PA-10)
Ben Chandler (KY-6)
Travis Childers (MS-1)
Jim Cooper (TN-5)
Jim Costa (CA-20)
Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Kathy Dahlkemper (PA-3)
Lincoln Davis (TN-4)
Joe Donnelly (IN-2)
Brad Ellsworth (IN-8)
Bill Foster (IL-14)
Gabrielle Giffords (AZ-8)
Bart Gordon (TN-6)
Parker Griffith (AL-5)
Jane Harman (CA-36)
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD-AL), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Administration
Baron Hill (IN-9), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Policy
Tim Holden (PA-17)
Frank Kratovil (MD-1)
Jim Marshall (GA-8)
Jim Matheson (UT-2)
Mike McIntyre (NC-7)
Charlie Melancon (LA-3), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Communications
Mike Michaud (ME-2)
Walt Minnick (ID-1)
Dennis Moore (KS-3)
Patrick Murphy (PA-8)
Glenn Nye (VA-2)
Collin Peterson (MN-7)
Earl Pomeroy (ND-AL)
Mike Ross (AR-4)
John Salazar (CO-3)
Loretta Sanchez (CA-47)
Adam Schiff (CA-29)
David Scott (GA-13)
Heath Shuler (NC-11), Blue Dog Whip
Zack Space (OH-18)
John Tanner (TN-8)
Gene Taylor (MS-4)
Mike Thompson (CA-1)
Charlie Wilson (OH-6)

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8. My Congressman Charlie Wilson is on your

list of Blue Dogs and he voted for the HCR bill.


Another one on your list is Zack Space he is the Congressman for our neighboring district, he also vote for the HCR.

[depakid]

9. This is why you lose- and why the country's in an inexorable decline

toward third world socioeconomic status. Enjoy your failure of a health care bill and the double digit premium increases it will enable!

[cascadiance]

11. "moderate and conservative" != corporatist! Most of these bums are CORPORATIST!

That IS the problem! If they were truly supporting the people and not their corporate lobbyist contributors, then many of them just might actually vote for this bill, provided that they are comfortable that it is constructed in a fiscally prudent fashion. The CBO has said that single payer and robust public options are MORE fiscally prudent than the crap that these jerks want. Why? Because they AREN'T being fiscally "conservative" but fiscally CORRUPT and handing out favors back to their friends who've bought them out!

These corporatists are the cancer this party needs to rid themselves of and put in place public campaign financing to keep them out!

Those that MIGHT qualify as grass roots conservative Democrats that might support gunowners' rights, etc. but who don't shill for corporate lobbyists for these areas are pushed out of the system, like Paul Hackett was by party corporatists like Schumer.

[Telly Savalas]

10. So who are the candidates running against these targets?

"Fuck you" isn't a choice on a primary ballot. You have to vote for somebody.