Okay, I just got off the phone with leading Blue Dog Dem Jim Matheson of Utah, and he explained to me why he opposes the idea of House Dems holding a vote on extending tax cuts for just the middle class, as Nancy Pelosi and others want to do.
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A Blue Dog Dem Explains Why He Doesnt
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Sep 17, 2010 by News Gatherer
Missouri Police On Swat Killing Dog
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May 7, 2010 by News Gatherer
This is the result of the sudden all the images of war and militaristic rhetoric of politicians has been vomiting for the past 30 yearscops dressed as soldiers to shoot at the door in the middle of the night, killing pets, filling home shot in the presence of children, and then have the audacity to charge parents to endanger their own child. It's terrible, but I invite you to see, and send it to the drug warriors in your life. There are 100-150 daily raids in the United States, the vast majority of this type, to serve a warrant for a consensual crime. .
Blue Dog Democrat Pleased With Brown’s Win
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Jan 21, 2010 by News Gatherer
Mike Ross in the fight over health-care reform. For all they did, and didn’t, they’re the Arkansas Times’ of the Year for 2009. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur Mills was long in the thick of things, including the creation of Medicare 40 years ago, and Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Rep. J. William Fulbright’s influence in foreign affairs, especially during the Vietnam war, made him an all-embracing symbol of high-toned dissent. But that was way back, and even then it was rare for twomembers of the Arkansas congressional delegation to be so prominently engaged with the aforementioned great issue at the aforementioned time, and to be so widely and earnestly censured, as were Sen.