I had a email question about the term "Blue Dog" Democrat. No, it is not an insult. Blue dogs are the inheritors of the conservative Democrats known as the "Boll Weevils". Their name is a play on the term "Yellow Dog" Democrats. The Blue Dogs named themselves thus because their founding members had the semi-famous blue dog paintings done by a Loiusiana artist hanging in their offices. Blue dogs are not anti-military and do not believe in spending the country into the stone age nor taxing the people into shocking poverty. They are not against the second amendment and like to smoke a cigar once in a while. MR. NO IT ALL.