The Courage Of The Conservadems

I’m sure it surprises no one that the Blue Dogs, and now Mary Landrieu, are furiously backpedaling away from the public option for health insurance.  The Blue Dogs are using the "trigger" as a fig leaf, and Landrieu is holding out for a "full compromise," whatever that means.

Our natural reaction is to be infuriated once again by their unreliability and their coziness with corporate interest groups, but maybe we’re looking at this the wrong way.

Think about it: For almost five years, the Blue Dogs and their Senate counterparts have repeatedly sided with a stupendously unpopular president (and party), and against a very popular one.

What courage it must take to ignore all the polls and the voters, and align yourself with the people everyone hates!

Sure, the Republicans do it all the time, but being bloodthirsty pro-corporate assholes who are always wrong is kind of their job, and it’s what their base wants.  If they possessed the courage of the Blue Dogs, they could tell their primary voters to suck it, and dare the Pat Toomeys to bring it on – but they never do, because they are cowardly and weak!  Not like our brave Blue Dogs!

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m just proud as punch that that kind of steely testicular fortitude can only be found on the Democratic side of the aisle.  Yay team!

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1. AFL-CIO Threatens to Cut Aid to ConservaDems Who Don’t Vote for Health Care
2. ConservaDems Champion the Chamber
3. Come Saturday Morning: The Blue Dogs That Won’t Hunt Together
4. Whipping Blue Dogs on Single Payer
5. Loretta Sanchez: A Blue Dog Barks Back on the Public Option