In Health Care Reform, Do Blue Dog Democrats Have Any Bite?

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DR. BOB: THE PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE CON IN OBAMACARE, GREAT WORK, BOB.
THEY MAY BE BARKING loudly now but Michelle Malkin wonders if they---more fiscal conservative Blue Dog Democrats--- have any bite when it comes to stopping the monstrosity of Obama's health care reform? Or will they end up making deals for their pet projects in return for acquiescence?

Here are some of the Blue Dogs and their D.C. phone numbers. Our calls do make a difference:

Reps. John Barrow (D-Ga.) (202) 225-2823
Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) (202) 225-4231
Baron Hill (D-Ind.) (202) 225-5315
Jim Matheson (D-Utah) (202) 225-3011
Charlie Melancon (D-La.) (202) 225-4031
Mike Ross (D-Ark.) (202) 225-3772
Zack Space (D-Ohio) (202) 225-6265
Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) (202) 225-4311
Lincoln Davis (D-Tenn.) (202) 225-6831
John Tanner (D-Tenn.) (202) 225-4714

Michelle concludes, Our calls to members of Congress and our hometown protests can and have made a difference. Look:

Pelosi cut deal after deal with individual lawmakers to squeak the bill out of committee and to the floor. Then lawmakers flew home and had to battle criticism from voters at the same time Republicans were saying Democrats passed an “energy tax.”

“They went home and got beat up about energy,” said a senior aide to a Blue Dog lawmaker. “Now you’re going to jam health care down their throat and send them home for a month?”

Rep. Charles Boustany, R-LA (202) 225-2031, talks about interesting developments in Congressional health care battle. See article and video.