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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!WASHINGTON -- It was no surprise that Ohio Rep. John Boehner would be elected speaker of the House in the new Republican-controlled chamber today. What was surprising was that the old speaker, Nancy Pelosi, was not the choice of 19 of her fellow Democrats. In the end, Pelosi was elected leader of the House Democrats. But in what could be called the last bark of the much-diminished Blue Dog coalition, 11 Democrats voted for North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler. The conservative former football star had run for re-election on a vow not to vote for the San Francisco liberal for speaker and had made ...
It didn't take long for Democrat Zack Space to start talking about health care once he returned home. He began a tour around Ohio's 18th Congressional district almost as soon as he arrived for the August recess, encountering skepticism on health care reform even from his Democratic constituents. ...
Salon had an interesting pair of articles today about the Democrats dilemma with their blue dogs in congress. These are Democratic congressman who are either conservative, or in the center on many issues. They have given the president many victories in a Democratically controlled congress. FISA and funds for the Iraq War among those. Here's Greenwald: If simply voting for more Democrats will achieve nothing in the way of meaningful change, what, if anything, will? At minimum, two steps are required to begin to influence Democratic leaders to change course: 1) Impose a real political price ...
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