blue dog

It's fairly obvious that after 8 years of squandering our military resources under George W. Bush, the military is going to have to be re-built.  And conservatives can be counted on to rattle the sabers of defense spending, but apparently they don't necessarily do so with honest intentions:

Rep. Cooper says his and the Blue Dog Caucus’ support of “pay-as-you-go” is the same as it ever was:

Congressman Jim Cooper says he’s still a proponent of pay as you go federal budgeting, no matter what the Wall Street Journal may claim.

Clint Brewer is hopeful that the conservative Blue Dog coalition will act as a buffer against the liberal excesses of the new Democratic governing majority in Washington:

To work with and influence a new Obama administration, the conservative Democratic Blue Dog caucus may have to recalibrate their tactics:

After some allegedly distraught soul searching and drama about the relevance of newspapers endorsing presidential candidates, the Knoxville News Sentinel is fine with endorsing the Republican status quo for Congress.

The Knoxville paper surveys the race in the Fourth Congressional District:

Kevin McCann is not a big fan of Rep. John Tanner:

How successful an increasingly likely Obama administration is depends on how much one very specific group of Democrats allows him to be:

Summary: Guests include John Seigenthaler, David Earnhardt, Congressman Jim Cooper, Naomi Wolf,