What Makes a Blue Dog Blue 0
Shaun Mullen has some ideas.
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Why, you may ask, have the Democrats lost a few steps? Because they have become as addicted to the lobbyist’s crack pipe as their brethren across the aisle.
That begins to explain why Obama’s health-care reform initiative is in trouble although passage in more or less the form the president has laid out would be a ginormous economic stimulus, deficit reducer and, in an indirect but very real way, an income gap closer.
The initiative is being held hostage not by naysaying Republicans but by Democrats personified by Senator Max Baucus, who represents one of the most sparsely populated states but in the last two years has received $453,000 from 109 health-related lobbyists who represent a Who’s Who of opposition to reform, including Amgen, Blue Cross-Blue Shield, Aetna, Astra Zeneca and the American Hospital Association.
