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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:58 AM Original message |
We would be in a better position if we had kept the blue dog representatives. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. Yes. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:02 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. For what does the "SOS" stand? |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Think about it n/t |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
4. We would have been in an even better position if we didn't have the BD in the 1st place n/t |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. We would be in a better position if I had won my 2004 presidential run. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:47 PM Response to Reply #8 |
25. That is true! |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
5. No. That's like asking if you'd have been better off not having the cancerous tumor removed. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. How many of the seats will be replaced with new Democrats in 2012? |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:09 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. If we do our jobs all of them and more. |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:14 PM Response to Reply #14 |
33. Democrats are looking at a bumper election year. People like Walsh are as |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
28. WRONG. We'd have a clean debt ceiling passed weeks ago. |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:16 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Exactly. If not months ago. nt |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
6. That depends. Did you prefer Speaker Pelosi or is Boehner more your style? |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:04 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. I prefer Madame Pelosi. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
9. really? i still have my blue dog dem and he voted FOR cut cap & whatever |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Twenty out of twenty-five of the remaining blue dogs didn't. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
29. That's because the Republicans have the majority. |
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tosh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
15. I'd much rather have my blue dog back |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
16. Right we are much better off with our representatives working AGAINST us |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:53 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Mine does anyway. He's a teabagger. |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. He'll likely be gone in 18 months. |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
18. Love the new avatar. It's very fitting. |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
19. Obviously,yes. nt |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
20. No! No! You need a smaller House caucus... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
21. Not our call. They got voted out. n/t |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
22. In conservative districts I'll take a Blue Dog over a bagger. Anywhere else-no BD's allowed. |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
23. They ran the independents off for many of the same reasons they disgusted liberals. |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:22 PM Response to Reply #23 |
37. This post alone is the wheat among the chaff of this thread. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
24. Sure. If the "position" you speak of involves the simultaneous use of knees and elbows. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:00 PM Response to Reply #26 |
50. I was going to answer your question. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 01:58 PM Response to Original message |
27. True, |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
30. Yeah and water is wet. |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
32. The Left is going to froth at you. But you are exactly right. |
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YankmeCrankme (576 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
35. Obviously, their constituents didn't like the job they were doing and voted them out. nt |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
36. Too bad our Democratic leadership chose to use a losing strategy then, right? |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:27 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. No. Republicans outright lied. Voters are on to their lies now. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. If they lost, they employed a losing strategy-- by definition. |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
38. Based upon some of the irrational responses to your OP looks like |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
39. Recommended |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
41. So they could vote with the republicans and make the president look even more impotent? |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:01 PM Response to Reply #41 |
51. The remaining ones have mostly voted with the Democrats. |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:07 PM Response to Reply #51 |
54. Maybe that's why they 'remained'. |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 07:23 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. Bingo. People like their Democrats straight up. Not watered down. |
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stranger81 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
43. No, we wouldn't. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:08 PM Response to Reply #43 |
55. Every blue dog democrat had a significant partisan voting record. |
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saras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
44. Perhaps - they may have implemented the same bad programs faster and more competently |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
45. Which one, doggy style or missionary? |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
46. perhaps, perhaps not (but mostly, so what?) |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:04 PM Response to Reply #46 |
53. Some people are calling for more blue dogs to be voted out in general elections. |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
47. On what basis? |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 05:59 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. The blue dogs have largely opposed the Republican debt ceiling proposals. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
48. If they weren't Third Way corporatists, they'd still be in office. nt |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 06:02 PM Response to Reply #48 |
52. How do you know that? |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
57. The Blue Dog Democrats were a lot better for us than the Tea Party Republicans that replaced them. |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
58. Yes, but they came from the most conservative districts |
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