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...wife Minal live in Silver Spring, Maryland, with their dog Winslow...
...attempt to strip a song down to its bare essentials so that the lyrics can do the bulk of the work. The effect is unsettling, and the feeling must be mutual as Adebimpe croons, “Come lay me low and love me / This lonely little love dog / That no one knows the name of." Here, the pervading image of isolation and anonymity mirrors the underlying angst of a generation struggling to retain its individuality against the opposing force of conformity...
...When Tanner talks about financial crises, he means not just the credit crunch on Wall Street but the massive deficits breaking the back of the federal government. For Blue Dogs, if there's a silver lining to the crisis that has shaken the financial markets, it's that it has highlighted problems they have been warning about for several years; their gripe is that the supposed solution now includes the same out-of-control pork barrel spending that they have been decrying. "The way I see it, the bailout forced us to go into the flooded basement and pump...
...Their importance to the bailout measure is a reflection of the Blue Dogs' growing clout within the Democratic Party. Decades ago, when the South was thick with Democrats, there was a saying that Southern Dems were so loyal they're rather vote for a yellow dog than a Republican. As the party moved to the left, forcing moderates like Billy Tauzin and Jimmy Hayes (both former Blue Dog leaders) to switch parties, one member joked that the remaining moderates had been choked blue by the left - thus rechristening the group Blue Dogs. For a while their numbers dwindled...
...Former Texas Rep. Charlie Stenholm, once a leading Blue Dog, says if Democrats want to maintain and grow their majority, they must take the Blue Dogs' fiscal conservative demands seriously. "If they don't you will see one of the largest turnovers of Congress in 2010," Stenholm says. "Blue Dogs that do not vote for fiscal responsibility, they'll be held accountable in their districts. Blue Dogs didn't get elected by beating liberal Democrats, they got elected by beating moderate and conservative Republicans, so those seats will flip if constituents aren't satisfied...