Detail The Democratic Party's Centrists: Blue Dog days   Oleh:  The Economist Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 392 no. 8642 (Aug. 2009), page 30. Topik: The Democratic Party; "Blue Dogs"; Congress Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.56 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel AMERICA’S capital, filled with politicos and pundits, is a noisy place. But the howls of one group have risen above the rest. The “Blue Dogs”, a group of 52 fiscally conservative Democratic congressmen, have been at the centre of the fight over health care, after threatening to torpedo the climate-change bill in June. Barack Obama invited a group of them round to the White House on July 21st. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wooed them with a bouquet of compromises. On July 29th Blue Dog leaders managed both to win a deal and humiliate Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker. Their delay is likely to prevent her from bringing the bill to a full vote before the August recess. The Blue Dogs’ evolution has proceeded in fits and starts. After the Republicans seized Congress in November 1994, a group of mostly Southern Democrats formed a coalition to distinguish themselves from their own party liberals. They said they were yellow-dog Democrats (a traditional Southern term for a loyalist who would vote for a yellow dog so long as it was a Democrat) “choked blue” by their leaders. Their main goal has been to resist the tax-and-spend policies too often pushed by their party’s barons; their home-page features a federal debt clock that on July 30th stood at $11,226,807,380,955.11. But for much of the past 15 years they have been a marginal force. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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