The Dirty Four Dozen

For your convenience. Included are 26 Democrats now on the record as opposing expanded access to health care but who want to make sure that if health care passes despite them it should discriminate against women.

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Blue Dog Votes

In addition to the fact that Blue Dogs who won't allow up-and-down votes are pretty much entirely useless, it seems to me that Blue Dog votes on cloture provide a pretty good first approximation of whether Republican-collaborationist Blue Dogs are primarily worried about constituents or donors. If the former, for low-information voters a no vote on the merits should be good enough; "sure, she voted no, but she refused to prevent a majority vote" isn't going to make a good campaign ad. If your primary audience is high-information donors and lobbyists, though, you're going to have to vote for filibusters.

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