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br> -- Mike Showalter br> Austin, Texas /p> p> BLUE DOGGIES br> Re: The Prowler's Ready, Ames, Fire! : /p>

Pleaseeeee give me a break -- how does being for higher taxes, national health care, cutting military spending (the first act of all Democrats was to cut funding for military housing and refuse a GOP request to expand VA benefits), increasing the size of the government bureaucracy, empowering labor union thugs, voting for the highest pork spending in U.S. history, doing nothing to support the pro-life movement, embracing homosexual unions, defending homosexual adoption rights, pushing for the emasculation of the First and Second Amendment and appeasing Muslim terrorists make one a conservative? The so-called blue-dog Democrats are NOT conservatives. They are sham conservatives or liberals cloaking themselves in moderately conservative rhetoric. Arlen Specter, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Chuck Hagel are more conservative than these charlatans.

As for Tennessee liberal John Tanner, he's Nancy Pelosi's "water boy." He insures that, if any blue-dog has an independent thought or thinks about voting for something good for the country, that rare independent thought is stifled and the errant Democrat toes to the party line. Stalin's henchmen weren't nearly as accomplished as Tanner in keeping the boss happy.

p>Describing these liberals as conservatives is a Democrat/media trick to dupe voters. This is the most radical Congress in U.S. history and the blue-dogs (what an insult to dogs) vote in lock step with their fellow Democrats on major issues. What problems have they caused for Nancy Pelosi? They all voted to make this acknowledged radical Speaker of the House just as their counterparts in the Senate voted to install "porker" and "conflict of interest" Harry Reid as Majority Leader. Maybe this is why the conservative movement is in disarray -- too many on our side cannot recognize a conservative and are easily fooled by frauds calling themselves conservatives (blue-dogs). br> -- Michael Tomlinson

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