In a Congress polarized by partisanship and ideology, the balance of power often falls these days to centrist Democrats who, in the House, go by the name of Blue Dogs. Over the years, I've never been able to tell whether the Blue Dogs were the mushy kind of centrists just trying to reconcile the... -
Time for the Blue Dogs to Show Their True Colors
In a Congress polarized by partisanship and ideology, the balance of power often falls these days to centrist Democrats who, in the House, go by the name of Blue Dogs. Over the years, I've never been able to tell whether the Blue Dogs were the mushy kind of centrists just trying to reconcile the...-
By Steven Pearlstein