Union thugs threaten conservative Democrats

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Hoffa: Blue Dogs 'making a big mistake' on healthcare

Centrist Blue Dog Democrats are "making a big mistake" by not backing President Obama's healthcare reforms, Teamsters President James P. Hoffa threatened Wednesday.

"They're a whole new phenomenon," Hoffa said of the centrist Democrats who have been reluctant to back a healthcare bill containing certain taxes and a public (or "government-run") option for consumers.

"A lot of these people we supported, and I think they're making a big mistake by not supporting the president," Hoffa added during an appearance on the liberal Bill Press radio show.

Hoffa's words come after the likely incoming president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka, told the Huffington Post that his union may sit out campaigns in which lawmakers broke from the organization.

Hoffa said that the Blue Dogs certainly weren't aiding Obama's efforts to pass health reform.

"The president needs every Democratic vote, whether it's in the House or the Senate," he said. "The fact that they're basically chopping up the bill certainly doesn't help him."

The son of the legendary union leader Jimmy Hoffa also said that the bruising healthcare battle might have taught the president a lesson or two.

"I think he's really learning a lesson about how divided this town is," he said. "I think he came here he had the idea that he could charm everybody."

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/08/19...-on-healthcare/

Edited August 19, 2009 by Mister_Bill

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

[luckytxn 2,264]

Oh oh. They gonna come get you blue dogs. Be scared, very scared.

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Cagney was one in a million. What an amazing actor.

[HYENA 4]

I hear legs breaking

[Joseph & Ana 0]

The sound of crickets when Libs are faced with truth..

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

What truth? That organizations that supported candidates that ran on a certain platform make it known that they won't suport candidates that won't deliver on their campaign promises? The shock and horror of holding representatives accountable. I certainly wouldn't support any representative that got my vote because (s)he campaigned on a specific platform and then failed to deliver.

It's not like the pro-life crowd, for example, actively goes against Republicans that fail to support their agenda. Or the NRA going after those that don't support theirs. Interest groups put pressure on the elected representatives that they supported. It's the way the game is played.

[Pooky 3,784]

What truth? That organizations that supported candidates that ran on a certain platform make it known that they won't support candidates that won't deliver on their campaign promises? The shock and horror of holding representatives accountable. I certainly wouldn't support any representative that got my vote because (s)he campaigned on a specific platform and then failed to deliver.

It's not like the pro-life crowd, for example, actively goes against Republicans that fail to support their agenda. Or the NRA going after those that don't support theirs. Interest groups put pressure on the elected representatives that they supported. It's the way the game is played.

And yet when the electorate complain of their representatives not reflect their opinion, the Liberal element here spout off that they can't complain, because that's the way this electoral system works and the Conservative element just sit back and thank God that it's not their turn this time.

So what you're saying is that if you're big enough, with enough money and enough muscle to intimidate, as the unions certainly have and do, then a different set of rules apply. Nice to know that we, the people, don't matter a damn in games like this.