How Do You Like Conservative DEMs Now

This is why Conservative DEMs/ Blue Dogs don't work in the interests for the Democratic Party. Joe Manchin just got elected as a Democrat to fill the late Robert Byrd's seat. Now Manchin might flip over to the Republican Party.

"He was elected as a Democrat and he has to go to Washington as a Democrat to try, in good faith, to make the changes in the party he campaigned on," one Manchin advisor told Fox News. "Now, if that doesn't work and Democrats aren't receptive, I don't know what possibilities that leaves open."

The so-called anti-pork Republicans are offering Manchin $1 billion in start-up funds for for a West Virginia coal conversion operation. Republicans are also offering Manchin a seat on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The mining industry has contributed $40,050 to Manchin. This is a corporatist Democrat. Manchin represents the lobbyists.

If Manchin, Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson flip then the argument to back conservative Democrats is dead.