Rahm Emanuel's Blue Dogs Bite Back

Monday's Wall Street Journal featured a piece on the 'Blue Dog' Democrats in the House who have become a major thorn in the sides of California Representatives and uber liberals Frisco Nan Pelosi and Henry Waxman.

The article details how Rahm Emanuel, now Wonderboy's chief of staff, personally devised the strategy, when heading up the House Democrats' re-election efforts in 2006, of recruiting moderates in key districts to run as Democrats.

Now, that strategy is coming back to bite him, and his party, in the form of some 50+ Blue Dogs. The name, of course, precedes Emanuel. It was, according to the article, derived from pictures in once-Democrat Billy Tauzin's office.

But Emanuel thought he was being clever when he deliberately ran moderates. And, in his own way, he admitted that liberal Democrats can't get elected in sufficient numbers of districts to form a majority in even their own party.

Thus, the common sense and self-preservation instincts of this group are now causing the healthcare stampede being foisted on American voters by Pelosi and Wonderboy to grind to a halt.

It's poetic justice, isn't it? The very freshman and second-term moderate Democrats who Emanuel personally recruited are now blocking his boss' biggest move toward socialism in America.