Reply #27: Don't blame the whole party for a dozen or two blue dogs [View All]

Those are the ones that stopped the effort to defund the war when the timetable approach failed because of a threatened presidential veto.

I frankly think that your post should be removed because of its innacuracy and venom towards Democrats (venom that is not based in facts). First you paint all the Democrats with the same brush when it's clear that your criticism applies to the ones who stopped it.

Pelosi and Reid brought a timetable bill and surprising everyone, passed it with majority support
(but that wasn't enough because Bush was going to veto it)

Pelosi and Reid upped the ante by bringing a bill to defund the war beyond a specific date. This had the most trouble in the house where the Blue Dogs were against it. Unfortunately, without our Blue Dogs, we didn't have enough votes to pass that bill.

So Pelosi and Reid both tried mightily to bring those bills, even taking great political risk on the last one to get it through, but they were stymied because they didn't have the votes --plain and simple.

You want to complain, go line up the votes that weren't there when they voted these first times. You will have to change the minds of those Blue Dog democrats and the mind of Republicans and the mind of the President.

If you think they failed because they didn't try, you frankly are literally TOTALLY UNINFORMED.

(And your post didn't contain any actual factual basis to know that your assertion was true, by the way)