Earl Pomeroy And His “Blue Dog Demcorats” Abandon Their Principles, Media Doesn’t Bat An Eye
This weekend Rep. Earl Pomeroy’s opponent Duane Sand was given the unanimous, albeit unchallenged, nomination of his party. Before Sand even received that nomination he was attacked by the North Dakota media (ironically given where Earl Pomeroy and state Democrats get most of their money) for being associated with out of state political interests.
So clearly, the state media is pretty interested in the House race this year. So it is somewhat unfathomable that we have yet to hear a word from a North Dakota news outlet about Earl Pomeroy and his fellow “Blue Dog Democrats” abandoning the wishes of their red state constituents and voting with the liberal wing of his party on FISA:
...Pelosi and the House Democratic Leadership rammed through on a 213-197 vote FISA legislation they knew President Bush wouldn’t sign because it fails to include an essential reform: retroactive liability protection for telecommunications companies that responded to government calls for assistance in monitoring terrorist communications following the September 11 attacks. The leadership would have lost without the votes of 14 members of the relatively moderate Blue Dog Coalition who were among the signers of a Jan. 28 letter to Mrs. Pelosi urging support for telecommunications immunity. These lawmakers came under intense pressure from trial lawyers, the left-wing blogs and their own party’s leadership to recant their support for immunity, and they succumbed.
Basically, Pomeroy and his fellow “Blue Dogs” promised to stand on principle when it came to the FISA issue but ultimately collapsed under pressure from the far-left of their party. Yet this hasn’t been reported in North Dakota at all.
Meaning that the North Dakota media finds Pomeroy’s Republican Opponents work for a national advocacy group to be troubling, but not Pomeroy’s abandonment of his constituents’ wishes on a key national security issue.
Fair? Objective? Not even a little bit.
