A Blue Dog is a conservative democrat. The Kossack wing of the democrat party faces a problem. It appears that the Kossacks can’t live with the Blue Dogs. However without the Blue Dogs the democrats would not have have a majority in Congeress.
Will the democrats destroy their majority from within? The New York Times [1] seems to susggest as much:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — Progressive and liberal groups and left-leaning blogs are furious, tossing around fighting words like “spineless,” “craven” and “weak.”
So much for the hopes of Democratic leaders that they could avoid a withering political attack by clearing the way for Congress to approve an expansion of the Bush administration’s terrorist surveillance program before the August recess.
Dean Barnet [2] identifies the Kossacks’ problem:
[T]he problem of building a political movement where everything is intensely personal.
The art of politics is collecting and using political power. Sadly for the Kossacks, they appear blind to their personal idealogy.