August marks the summer recess for Congress. For many of the Blue Dog Democrats like Sanford Bishop (D-2-GA), it could be the Dog Days of Summer. The Blue Dog Democrats were credited with holding up the vote on the healthcare reform bill. News reports said that they held out for special compromises, but we have yet to learn what the compromises are. Have they helped us out by delaying the vote only to sell us down the river with some phony baloney compromise based on cooked numbers that show the system will pay for itself and be deficit neutral—an impossibility according to the CBO?
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