Mike Ross story

The ADG today featured a story on Mike Ross, the 4th District Congressman who leads the Blue Dog Democrats. No link available. In a long, rambling background story that the paper likes to publish, the author Jane Fullerton interviewed a bunch of historians who placed the Blue Dogs in the context of the conservative Democrats who joined with Republicans in the late 1930s and brought the New Deal to a screeching halt. Ross is very popular in his south Arkansas district, which went for McCain by 58 percent last year. (Ross received 86 percent.) Fullerton also highlighted Ross' ties with the health-care industry. The funniest line was Ross' admission that "when people start standing up, I think they're going to assault me." That was a joke, I hope.