The Blue Dogs became Mrs. Pelosi’s lap dogs, voting with her 80% of the time on economic issues. The Blue Dogs are not fiscal conservatives, and only a few can credibly claim even to be fiscal moderates.

By CHRIS CHOCOLA at Wall Street Journal

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Blue Dogs’ average NTU scores since then, during Nancy Pelosi’s first three years as House speaker, were 10%, 15% and 18%—hardly distinguishable from the average Democratic scores of 6%, 11% and 8%.

Every one of them voted for the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Sixty-three percent voted for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program; 91% voted for the stimulus package in February 2009; 85% voted for the cash-for-clunkers program; 74% voted for President Obama’s debt-tripling 2010 budget; 73% voted for the auto bailout; and 54% voted for the federal takeover of health care.

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