Sentences with phrase «many blue dog»

Lipinski's win is a blow to the anti-Trump resistance, which has been fueled by energy from the party's base, and it's a relief for the dwindling Blue Dog Coalition of conservative House Democrats, which hopes to make a comeback this year.

And with her high - pitched voice, wide - eyed awe at being named to the seat, and Blue Dog record — she gave a shout - out to gun owners at the introductory news conference — Gillibrand looked unlikely to survive the Democratic primary a year and a half away.

Remember the those blue dog democrats also gave him a tough time.

And the political reality is even redder than it looks, since a number of the blue dogs who did survive, having observed the cruel fate suffered by their colleagues, will now be less likely to sit and stay at the President's command.

Huge numbers of these Democratic «blue dogs» were defeated.

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There's no Cookie Monster or Big Bird, but Grand Palladium does have a relationship with a blue dog named RAGGS, who stars in an an Emmy Award - winning, live action and animated musical preschool television series originally produced in Sydney, Australia.

Aww i must have these it would provide the prefect vomfort for my son who does nt like sleeping in his room, i like the blue dog x

Available in pink dog, blue dog and cream lamby.

In another part they simply thought that the «blue dogs» (Democratic voters that always voted Democrats), would all vote for Hillary (as well as she herself thought that) but after what she pulled of against Sanders many of them just didn't vote at all or voted Trump just to pay Hillary back.

Gillibrand has come a long way since the early days of her tenure, when her conservative record on immigration issues during her previous life as a Blue Dog House member caused an uproar among Latino lawmakers, one of whom, (Assemblyman Peter Rivera), denounced her as «xenophobic.»

This was a big switch for the former Blue Dog congresswoman, who had previously supported civil unions — much like Sen. Chuck Schumer (although he has since changed his position, too) and President Obama, who now says he's still struggling with this subject, but his views are evolving.

The former Blue Dog Democrat, who ousted an incumbent Republican (ex-Rep.

She's called Kirsten «Tina Rutnick» Gillibrand (her maiden name from back in her Emma Willard days) «as a tobacco lawyer,» Kirsten «Calamity Jane» Gillibrand as «congresswoman» (from the Blue Dog Democrat days she slept with a shotgun under her bed?)

While this is far less frequent than it was 30 years earlier (with the complete demise of «blue dog» Democrats and big decline of «rino» Republicans); even today we have examples of:

The campaign of David Malpass, one of two Republicans vying to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in November, is accusing her of trying to back away from reports of her «gun - slinging ways» back when she was a Blue Dog Democrat in Congress.

Initially, Gillibrand's selection by Paterson was questioned by a number of key groups on the left — including gay marriage advocates who weren't entirely sold on her position (she said she was always personally supportive, but as a Blue Dog congresswoman hadn't officially come out in favor).

The Working Families Party has endorsed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's first statewide bid this fall — a coup for the former Blue Dog Democrat and a sign of how successful she and her allies, both locally and at the national level, have been in neutralizing her opposition from the left.

The so - called Blue Dog Democrats put their concerns in a letter released after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reaffirmed that she intends to win House passage by Congress's August recess of a comprehensive healthcare bill.

On the Democratic side, Blue Dog Rep. John Barrow opened the door — widely — to a Senate run.

For example, the letters «LO» indicated that a lawmaker was «leaning Obama,» while «BD» in blue denoted that he or she was a member of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition on Capitol Hill.

I have had it with Blue dogs.

Erie County Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy said Gillibrand was once a blue dog but now «proudly twirls her pompom» when The New York Times calls her a liberal.

«Andrew Cuomo is somehow the only politician in America who still thinks neoliberalism and triangulation work, who opens up the Blue Dog playbook and says, «How can I use this to run for president?

The political action committee that supports the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition of Democrats in Congress backed O'Halleran in his race.

Gillibrand has made gay rights — including the repeal of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» — a focus since she inherited former Sen. Hillary Clinton's seat in January 2009 as a means to demonstrate her liberal cred to skeptical progressives who were worried by her Blue Dog days in the House.

«We're not going to let (the Blue Dogs) empower the Republicans.

Shuler, a prominent Blue Dog Democrat, was first elected in 2006 but faced a tough re-election bid due to new redistricting lines.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman told reporters on Capitol Hill that he is willing to keep talking with members of the Blue Dog coalition - an influential group of fiscal conservatives - but also made clear he intends to move forward with the legislation.

As a member of the House Democratic leadership, Rahm Emanuel recruited many Blue Dogs to run in traditionally Republican districts in 2006 and 2008, and won't want House leaders to alienate them.

Who: The Blue Dogs What They Want: This group of about 50 House Democrats is dedicated to lowering federal deficits and creating greater health - care cost controls (though not necessarily reducing spending in their districts).

One of the most conservative members of the House Democratic Caucus and a co-chairman of the Blue Dog Coalition, Lipinski opposes abortion rights.

If fiscal responsibility were so important to them, they could be Blue Dog Democrats.

The Blue Dogs have already won $ 100 billion off the cost of the House bill, and may get more.

Four out of seven «Blue Dogs» on the Energy and Commerce Committee were won over; with a similar level of conservative support the full House, reform will pass with about 235 votes, probably including a public option.

The White House and the Blue Dogs would both like to squeeze more money out of reform — for example, by giving more power over setting Medicare reimbursement rules to an independent commission instead of Congress.

Leading Once a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, Israel helped recruit and elect a huge freshman class in 2012, nearly 50 in all.

If the Blue Dogs had stayed united in opposition, they could've strangled reform in its crib.

P.S. To those conservatives still in denial about the implications of this switch - it doesn't really matter if Specter (or the Blue Dogs, for that matter) vote with the Democratic majority on actual bills.

«Good luck getting the Blue Dogs and the Dems in conservative states to vote for every looney left initiative.»

Oh, that's right, you and Obama aren't serious, you thought it was good politics until the blue dogs called your bluff.

That Gillibrand was decried by potential challengers as a «vulnerable» lightweight who had been transformed, in remarkably short order, from a Blue Dog Democrat who was not particularly progressive on immigration or gay rights and bragged about keeping guns under her bed, into a pro-immigrant champion of gay marriage and gun control.

Our guide to the major players, from Obama to the Blue Dogs — their goals, strategies, and odds of success.

Then again they «got involved» when John Hall first ran, coming out against him and in favor of a Republican - turned - Democrat who they backed because she had more money.It is obvious that DCCC is only concerned with money; and look how much good that did them when they won in ’08 with all those wealthy Blue Dog Democrats.

Actually, although much aligned by the left - leaning wing, «Blue Dogs» are vital to the success of the party.

You will know I made the switch when instead of flowers my gravatar is a blue dog.

Soto, who succeeded Grayson in 2016 after beating his wife Dena Grayson in the Democratic primary while Alan Grayson ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, is a member of the New Democrats Coalition, but is not a member of the Blue Dog Democrats Coalition.

«Blue Dogs» anyone?»

Hoyer's election demonstrates the new power of the centrist Democrats and the Blue Dogs.

She'll be tough to beat and FEINSTEIN's just too stale and is such a Blue Dog that it will be hard to separate them on the issues.