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tazzygirl -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/27/2011 8:48:52 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
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So it should have been, "yes we can, but I don't know how?" How quickly we forget who had control of the White House, and both chambers of Congress for two years.
How quickly who forgets?
Yet, you seem to forget how many Blue Dogs were around way back when. I didnt say Republicans in Congress, I said Congress.
The Blue Dogs were decimated by the whackier left in '06, Tazzy. You seem to be running on a strange definition of "way back when," especially on a thread with "remember" in the title. [:)]
According to Time...
Every political coalition needs a catchy name. The 1840s had the Know-Nothings, the 1980s had the Boll Weevils, and now there are the Blue Dogs, a group of 52 fiscally conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives whose staunch resistance to the White House's health-care legislation efforts might delay a vote well past President Obama's August deadline.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1913057,00.html#ixzz1hnkfsomg
Blue Dog Coalition membership for the 112th Congress is 26 seats, down from 54 seats in the 111th Congress.
111th Congress
In the summer of 2009, The Economist magazine said "[t]he debate over health care... may be the pinnacle of the group’s power so far" and quoted Charlie Stenholm, a founding Blue Dog, as saying that "this is the first year for the new kennel in which their votes are really going to make a difference."[13]
112th Congress
The Blue Dog Coalition suffered serious losses in the 2010 midterm elections, losing over half of its seats to Republican challengers. Its members, who comprised roughly one quarter of the Democratic Party's caucus in the 111th Congress, accounted for half of the party's midterm election losses.[14] Including retirements, Blue Dog numbers in the House were reduced from 54 members in 2008 to 26 members in 2010, and two of the Coalition's four leaders (Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Baron Hill) failed to secure re-election.[15][16]
Now, having posted all that...
Final party distribution in the House of Representatives
Democratic Party: 255 members.
Republican Party: 179 members.
Its funny how many people forget that even within his own party, the Democrats never had total control over the Blue Dogs due to their fear of being ousted if they voted the wrong way. Self-fulfilling prophesy.
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