We Warned You About PayGo, Right? Now The Filthy Mangy Blue Dogs Are Howling

The Republican wing of the Democratic Party, grudgingly went along with the Democrats Tuesday when Pelosi passed a bill to protect DREAMers with a massive bipartisan majority. You could tell there was some restiveness around the vote by noting that the scummiest of the Blue Dogs, Wall Street-owned Josh Gottheimer, lead a group of craven freshmen-- including 4 Blue Dogs-- to vote with the GOP on recommitting the bill.

But the next day a whiny letter to Pelosi and Hoyer turned up penned by Blue Dog chairs Stephanie Murphy (FL), Tom O'Halleran (AZ), Kurt Schrader (OR), Anthony Brindisi (NY) and Lou Correa (CA).

The Blue Dogs whined that the national debt-- which many of them helped run up by allowing the Republicans to spend massively on the military and to cut taxes just as massively-- is over $22 trillion-- "about $67,000 for every American man, woman and child," as they dramatically phrased it. If this money was being used for investments on things like education, health, infrastructure, etc, there would be no problem, but considering how those trillions are being wasted, there is a problem-- not with amounts, but with priorities.

But the Blue Dogs are crying PAYGO and Pelosi is committed to that reactionary policy... making me wonder if this isn't just a prelude to an attempt to derail and shut down growing agitation for Medicare-For-All. (Richard Neal, no Medicare-For-All ally, just announced he will be holding a hearing on Pramila Jayapal's bill next week, next week. It's likely that Neal has been tasked with Pelosi with the poisoning of the bill. Expect PAYGO to play a role.)