Blue Dogs are coporate tools like Republicans

Paul Krugman, like many others, has noticed the Blue Dog stance on health care reform, and discusses it in his column today.

The Blue Dogs are concerned with how much health care reform is going to cost . . . And yet, the alternatives they propose for health care reform would all -- uhm...drive up costs! So, what's the deal? Are these people basically just morons? Krugman states: 

Maybe they're just being complete hypocrites. It's worth remembering the history of one of the Blue Dog Coalition's founders: former Representative Billy Tauzin of Louisiana. Mr. Tauzin switched to the Republicans soon after the group's creation; eight years later he pushed through the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, a deeply irresponsible bill that included huge giveaways to drug and insurance companies.

And then he left Congress to become, yes, the lavishly paid president of PhRMA, the pharmaceutical industry lobby. One interpretation, then, is that the Blue Dogs are basically following in Mr. Tauzin's footsteps: if their position is incoherent, it's because they're nothing but corporate tools, defending special interests.
And as the Center for Responsive Politics pointed out in a recent report, drug and insurance companies have lately been pouring money into Blue Dog coffers.

See the complete article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/paul-krugman-attempts-to_n_245375.html

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