Comments on: Blue Dogs Gaining Strength

By: kranky kritter

kranky kritter — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:39:30 +0000

Meet the 2012 Republican leadership.

Sure, if the blue dogs get treated like Lieberman did.

By: mike mcEachran

mike mcEachran — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:36:15 +0000

Meet the 2012 Republican leadership.

By: L

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:44:23 +0000

While I would agree that the Republican party is more divided right now, Democrats haven’t had much of a reason to divide just yet. Six of the past 8 years have been spent in defense against the executive and a majority in the legislature, and the last 2 have been spent trying to overcome friction between the legislature and executive to get something done.

As soon as the Democrats have both a majority and the executive, I think we’ll be seeing a lot more friction within the Democratic party. Hopefully common-ground and compromises will be emphasized but a lot of that depends on the leadership in the Democratic party.

By: kranky kritter

kranky kritter — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:37:55 +0000

Arf, arf, baby!

The blue dogs will be an important coalition. And I expect them to get a LOT of support from moderates and independents. To say nothing of selective support from moderate republicans.

We could see actual “issue-based” coalitions in congress. Imagine that! I think it may well be necessary for the blue dogs to lay a big fat turd in the progressive punchbowl.

Bow-freakin-wow!

By: Avinash_Tyagi

Avinash_Tyagi — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:39:09 +0000

While the Blue dogs may make it harder for some of the more liberal aspects of the Dem agenda to pass, the Dems are much less divided overall then the Republicans, but tend to more or less agree on , who face a very polarized future, everything from Bush and Iraq, to Sarah Palin and Racial attitudes divides the GOP at the moment, and the party is already turning its guns on each other, and depending on the next few years we could see stunning changes in the party structure of the united states, the kind not seen since the Whigs ripped themselves apart and were replaced by the Republicans. My instincts tell me that the GOP will be tilting hard right while many of the moderates in the party, will likely desert the party.

By: BBQ

BBQ — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:03:54 +0000

While that does make me feel good, especially as someone who sides more with Blue Dogs and the DLC more than the GOP.

However don’t think the progressives aren’t going fight them.

http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/seiu-netroots-target-centrist-dems-in-2010-2008-10-28_2.html

I am as interested in the fight between moderate Dems and progressive Dems as much as the fiscal conservative vs social conservative in the next coming years.