‘Blue Dogs’ may block health care bill

By Jennifer J. Foster

I won’t say I told you so, but ...

From the CNN Political Ticker:

A leader of the conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats told CNN Wednesday he and other group members may vote to block House Democrats’ health care bill from passing a key committee if they don’t get some of the changes they want.

“We remain opposed to the current bill, and we continue to meet several times a day to decide how we’re going to proceed and what amendments we will be offering as Blue Dogs on the committees,“ said Rep. Mike Ross, D-Arkansas.

Remember that the Blue Dogs include freshmen Alabama congressmen Bobby Bright and Parker Griffith.

Blue Dogs said that the House bill, about which I opined yesterday, did not address the concerns they shared with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter to her late last week, before the bill was rolled out with much fanfare on Tuesday.

I’ll tell you this: She’d better start listening now—or the only thing she’ll be delivering to President Obama by the congressional recess in August is her deepest apologies.