Blue Dogs are Frauds

OK, the title's a little strong, but I think the point's easy to make.

The vote confirming Sonia Sotomayor occurred on the day this is written. No Democrats voted against her. If one accepts -- and I do -- that Sotomayor is basically a liberal (though possibly a later disappointment to liberals on abortion), why didn't any of the so-called conservative Democrats, the Blue Dogs, vote against her?

They don't seem to have any reservations about voting to hang-up the president's health care plan, on the basis that it costs too much money or that it's too "socialist," but they endorse Sotomayor. It seems like a terrible disconnect.

But there's a reason for it.

Voting for Sotomayor doesn't cost these guys a nickel. There's no business or industry that has a financial interest in blocking her confirmation. If she were to lose, President Obama would nominate someone equally as liberal who would get confirmed. So, though many businesses and industries might prefer a more conservative Justice, that's not going to happen As a result, there's no reason for large corporations to buy -- I mean contribute to the campaigns of -- Blue Dogs.

Health care financing (because it's not really health care reform, that actually would save a bunch of money) is a different story. Lots of people will put lots of money in your war chest if you vote against the president's plan or work to delay it or water it down.

And that's really what it's all about. Some conservative Republicans may honestly feel the Obama plan's a bad idea. I don't agree, but I get that. The Blue Dogs aren't in the same boat, it seems to me. If they were truly conservative, the vote wouldn't have been 68-31. The only thing they want to conserve is their access to big bucks.

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That's it for now. Thanks for reading.