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The wars need to end.
Period.

@ Simmy "My goodness – Congress gone wild!!!!!!!!!!"
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Now that's a video I don't want to see!

But to dream about it, is a start. So glad you guys are coming out ..

"Commitment to restoring fiscal responsibility to the federal budget"???

Is that with or without the $800B?

This time the BLUE DOGS are RIGHT ON!

Will you please give him a chance to go to the Oval Office? My goodness – Congress gone wild!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty good mvoe actually. Obama would do well to pay close attention to the blue dogs over the next couple years during this economic crisis.

it seems to me that blue dogs are those who like to sit on the sidelines and watch while the RED Dogs do all the work of protecting our country safe from rebels and terriorists. get a mission to help instead of adding chains, ble dogs!!

Don't blam me,

That "gutted" intel, did provide Bush with a memo stating to the effect that Bin Ladin was set to attack the US using air lines. Perhaps if GWB would have read and acted on that warning, the distraction that is known as the Iraq war wouldn't have happened.

I couldn't agree more..........................but it wasn't just Blue Dogs........there were some Progressives that signed it as well!

Once it's all there in black and white we will be able to see how outrageously high our defense budget is, and rein it in!!!

Sincerely,

A Progressive fiscal realist can dream

All these years... all these billions of dollars and somehow bush managed to always use the "emergency" venues instead of the normal budget venues for his war. Almost six years since we invaded the nation of Iraq and we still need to get "emergency" funding?

Slick georgie, very slick.

Very, very interesting... This could be a good alliance for Obama for reeling in dissident Democrats, and put pressure on the G.O.P. to either adhere to being a fiscal conservative, or call yourself something else.

I think that Fiscal Conservative Democrats will have a lot of pull with Obama...Fiscally conservative democrats are the new majority thanks to this election. By the time President Obama leaves office he will be considered a Blue Dog or he will be leaving earlier than we expect.

As a liberal New Yorker, I often equate "fiscal conservatism" with "mean spirited stinginess". However, I have to admit that in this situation I find myself aligned with the Blue Dogs.

The American people have been demanding greater transparency from the government in its conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for years – without much response from the Bish Administration. Finanacial accountability is a great way to start and I applaud whoever is willing to expend some political clout to make it happen.

Money wasted all around on both wars, just bring all the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan....both useless wars and wasted lives on both fronts.

Blue Dogs = Common sense

I fully agree with the Blue Dogs and Mick's comment.

With every Republican President since Reagan running up deficits in the hundreds of billions of dollars, with a lot of cheerleading from the Republican congressional delegation, the Blue Dog Democrats are the last true fiscal conservatives standing.

I echo what Mick in Mesa said.

I don't normally agree with my Rep., Shuler, either but on this one he and the others have it right.

To Mick in Mesa

Remember, congress VOTED for the war, almost unanimously, so it is not illegal.

If Clinton hadn't gutted the intelligence agencies, maybe we would have had sufficient data to stear us away from war. But even Bill Clinton stated that Iraq had WMD's.

If you don't believe me, then do some research.

our entire tribe are employees of war industry, and

we need more wars, not less,

to preserve our lifestyle,

which is not negotiable,

as shrub famously said.

While most of the time I view the Blue Dogs as nothing more than plantation dems in this instance they are correct. Americans need to know how much of our country's monetary treasure is being flushed down the drain in Bush's illegal war...

Mike Ross for speaker of the house ,,,,he has Americas interest not just his party.....blue dogs are the real deal