Blue dogs turn into dirty dogs

There’s never been any doubt that the so-called “blue dog” Democrats would cave to the persuasive powers of the party leadership whose radical agenda could reshape the face of America. As long as four weeks ago, Rush Limbaugh predicted that the blue dogs would find a pretext to support all the legislation envisioned by President Obama and give that legislation the appearance of having been debated.

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So it is with the healthcare bill currently crawling through Congress. The President has steadfastly insisted that the bill would ultimately lower healthcare costs in America, despite the Democrats’ own Congressional Budget Office skewering that conceit by estimating the bill will add up to $1.6 trillion in costs. The pretext for the blue dogs to support the bill is the discovery of $100 billion in so-called savings that would make the bill acceptable to the lap... er blue dogs. With the bill’s estimated cost of one trillion to $1.8 trillion, a hundred billion is a mere drop in the bucket, percentage-wise less than one would tip a waitress at a doughnut shop. But the cost was never an issue to the Democrats’ dirty dogs. The issue is and has always been the puppies’ ability to go back to their voters and with a straight face tell them that they fought their own party’s leadership to make the bill the best it could be and thus remain re-electable. It’s a neat and meaningless compromise, given the power of the Democrats’ leadership to make maverick representatives’ lives miserable. No committee spots, no campaign funds, no support of any kind made the dirt-dogs as pliable in the hands of radical leftists, such as Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman, both of whom seem to have a very tenuous relationship with reality. If one is really interested in just how effective the proposed healthcare legislation is, then one need look no further to the Congress itself, which has conveniently excluded its members from this bill in favor of their own separate healthcare coverage. It’s your typical Democrat leadership, whose doctrine of “do as I say, not as I do” maintains their own elite status, while relegating all the little people to a set of laws that will make the status quo seem like nirvana ten years down the line. The American people are being treated like mushrooms by their politicians who feed them manure and keep them in the dark with rhetorical maneuvers purely designed to keep them in office. Who gives a rat’s butt what happens to the voters, so long as they continue to re-elect Democrats? But like the Republicans before them, the Democrats are arrogantly overplaying their hand. The American people are not stupid and it will not take long for them to realize the scale of the boondoggle currently being foisted upon them, as polling data is clearly beginning to show. Americans voted for change in 2008 but what they got was more of the same: a government that’s overbearing and presumptuous attempting to tell its citizens it knows what’s best for them. Real change can only be brought about through a constitutional amendment dictating term limits on all politicians from dogcatcher to the Speaker of the House. Until then politicians like the blue dogs will continue to roll over and play dead for their party leaders, forgetting that in reality it’s the voters who feed them.