{"id":9291,"date":"2006-12-09T09:45:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T14:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9291.html"},"modified":"2006-12-09T09:45:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T14:45:52","slug":"blue-dogs-please-dont-be-fooled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/blue-dogs-please-dont-be-fooled\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Dogs, please don’t be fooled"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hill reported<\/a> this week that the president would host a meeting with leaders of the conservative Blue Dog and New Democrat coalitions, in order to discuss areas of “mutual cooperation.” The get-together, which happened yesterday at the White House, hasn’t generated much in the way of media attention, but I found one local news report<\/a> about Rep. Mike Ross’ (D-Ark.) take on the meeting.<\/p>\n

Congressman Mike Ross and other centrist Democrats met with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for the first time on Friday.<\/p>\n

While the meeting was productive, Ross says it came several years late. He serves a co-chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of Democrats with fiscally conservative ideas.<\/p>\n

Ross says Bush is receptive to the concerns of Democrats, including those regarding the Iraq war, earmark reform and alternative fuels. To Ross, Bush “really appeared to me he’s speaking from the heart.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, of course he seemed<\/i> to be speaking from the heart. He usually appears<\/i> to be speaking from the heart — right up until he blows off anyone who dares to disagree with him.<\/p>\n

Bush is “receptive to the concerns of Democrats, including those regarding the Iraq war”? Does anyone<\/em> actually believe this?<\/p>\n

I’m not picking on Ross; he’s not a bad guy and he acknowledged that the meeting should have happened years ago. The reality is, Bush didn’t bother chatting with right-leaning Dems before, because a) they’re Dems; and b) he didn’t need them. Now that Dems in the majority, Bush is ready to speak from the heart. Yeah, right.<\/p>\n

Please tell me the Blue Dogs can see through this transparent charade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Hill reported this week that the president would host a meeting with leaders of the conservative Blue Dog and New Democrat coalitions, in order to discuss areas of “mutual cooperation.” The get-together, which happened yesterday at the White House, hasn’t generated much in the way of media attention, but I found one local news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}