Take a look at this story. Yesterday, the Democrats raised the U.S. debt ceiling by a whopping $1.9 trillion, the largest such hike in U.S. history, by far. The story really plays up the role the Blue Dogs played in ensuring the bill also invoked "pay as you go" budgeting rules in the house for 2010, making them seem to be these intrepid protectors of taxpayer dollars. Well, bullshit, as we like to say down here in Texas.
First of all, these "pay as you go" rules have been in effect for the vast majority of the last 12 years, as the federal debt has literally exploded. This Blue Dog caucus has been in existence since the mid-1990s, as the federal debt has literally exploded. Am I repeating myself here? Well, sorry, I'm a little pissed.
The Blue Dog caucus has been in existence since around 1995, and has yet to take a single vote as a group against any huge spending bill proposed by their Party's leadership. They caved on the fake stimulus bill last year, most of them caved on a cap and trade bill that would have added yet another $2 trillion to the national debt, and most of them have been feverishly negotiating special deals for their districts in exchange for their votes on the healthcare nationalization bill.
The only way this worthless collection of fake fiscal conservatives could ever make themselves a truly relevant caucus would be to oppose some huge spending bill - any huge spending bill - favored by their leadership as a bloc. But because they are fake fiscal conservatives who only assume that posture as a means of getting elected in what are otherwise Republican districts, they never do that. These are the very worst people in the U.S. House of Representatives, because they give the Democrat Party a patina of ideological diversity it does not in fact possess. A pox on all their Blue dog houses.
Ok, let me take a deep breath here before moving on...
