“I said, hurry, please hurry, because people are waiting and they are hurting, and they need the help now,” Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-New Hampshire, said…

Democratic media consultant Steve Murphy, who represents several moderate Democrats, said that Blue Dogs are all “deficit hawks,” so they’re “nervous about spending.”

“They’re against giving more money to the banks without any accountability, they want to zero in on wasteful spending and they strongly believe the shrinking deficit and eventual balanced budget was the underpinning of our economic success in the ’90’s,” he said.