Standing Athwart Obama Yelling “Wait”

By Kleinheider Posted on October 14, 2008 at 6:42 am

How successful an increasingly likely Obama administration is depends on how much one very specific group of Democrats allows him to be:

[Rep. John] Tanner, a Blue Dog co-founder, said he and Obama commiserated about the “financial vulnerability of the country, and the fact that our dependence on foreign capital has created a vulnerability that has created a national security matter.” But he said he is disappointed that Obama did not call for spending cuts and other disciplinary measures during his two debates with McCain.

“You can’t dig out of this hole. Now it’s a cavern,” Tanner said of the country’s fiscal state. “He’s going to need the Blue Dogs to help with this because we’re the guys at the gate going, ‘Wait, wait.’ ”

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Tags: Barack Obama, Blue Dog, Jim Cooper, John Tanner  

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