Posted on 11/10/2009 2:49:24 PM PST by Blue Collar Muse
In a breathtaking example of hypocrisy, Jim Cooper testified today - presumably with a straight face - that deficit spending of the sort that has lead to $55 trillion dollars in unfunded mandates threatening to cripple the US Economy is a "fiscal cancer." While he does say that the Health Care bill passed in the House on Saturday won't help address the problem, he neglects to mention he voted for it. Instead he recommends another Congressional panel to make recommendations.
Did you expect anything different? The communists vote for massive spending and then, in a fit of fiscal responsibility, announce that “although it pains us to do this, there is just no other solution than tax increases.”
It’s “for the childddrun, ya know.”
Dear Stupid,
Though I am not usually a supporter of “reactive” legislation, I feel that I have to change my position for this one. In your honor, I would like to sponsor “The Jim Cooper” bill, which would require that any person seeking an elected office must first pass a math test, a polygraph, and psych eval. I am really looking forward to seeing you join the rising number of unemployed you RINO good for nothing.
I have 2 words for these people and I can’t type them in whole lest I be banned ...
oh sorry- “Democrat” RINO..same same these days...
Shouldn’t that be J. Cooper? His first name is Jim. I thought they were calling him a Republican with that title. While you won’t find his party affiliation on his official site, he is most definitely a Rat.
They’ll tell you anything to get elected and when they get to DC they do as they’re told.
I’m a lifelong resident of the 5th. There is no Republican party in Nashville except on paper. This district hasn’t elected a Republican to the House since President Ulysses Grant was reelected in 1872. Cooper could only lose in a Democrat primary, and that by a challenger from the Stalinist left (and the liberals locally don’t like Cooper, either).
Nashville has been Democrat since Reconstruction. Prior to the Civil War, it was a Whig stronghold (but of the Cotton, not Conscience, variety). Unlike Nashville, Berkeley and the East Bay Area of CA was Republican until the 1950s (they had Republican Congressmembers clear up until 1959, but it became radicalized by 1970 when the generic liberal White Dem Congressman was beaten by the Marxist Ron Dellums). Nashville has elected a couple of Republicans to the state legislature, but right now is outnumbered 9-to-1. The area that does send a Republican is the richest area of Nashville and the person is a Country-Clubber type.
It’s hard to explain to outsiders how it works in Nashville. Basically it’s that Republicans aren’t elected here. There’s no party apparatus to speak of. Just a local country-clubber meet. I’ve never been to one of their meetings, because I’m not their kind of Republican. I come from the poor, high-crime area of Nashville (which ironically has two of only a handful of self-declared Republicans on our Metro Council). The rich Republicans in Nashville play footsie with the local Democrats to have any sort of “input” (basically, the Dems take their money and support in private with a wink and a nod, and they (Dems) try not to do anything too nutty to upend their business interests). Think of the Dems running this city as “business liberals.” But make no mistake, Nashville is liberal-leaning, and the money backs them.
The current Democrat Mayor, Karl Dean, ostensibly the most left-wing in the city’s history, married the daughter of a wealthy Republican and has used all that wealth he never earned himself to buy the office. It’s more a “class thing” in Nashville. The rich and Republican areas backed this Socialist phony, while the working-class and non-White areas backed a more moderate candidate (ex-Congressman Bob Clement, who’d be considered a right-winger by Dem standards) in the last election.
Add to that, Nashville has been growing in the number of wealthy White moonbats (and illegals, although they’re not voting, yet), and most of the center-right people have been voting with their feet, moving to the surrounding heavily GOP suburban counties. Nashville/Davidson County hasn’t voted GOP for President since 1988 (although it has voted GOP for Senator since, mainly when the Dems haven’t run serious candidates). But there’s simply no party, no farm team, no organized effort to elect Republicans in Nashville. In order to do that, you’d have to get the monied GOP interests to give up their stake in the local Democrat party, and they won’t do that, at least not at the moment.
However, I’ll add that the GOP is likely to have total control of statewide redistricting for the 2012 elections, and they may seek to correct the horrific imbalance of gerrymandering in Nashville for the State House (as I said, it’s 9D-1R), perhaps making it 6D-4R, which would then force some of the powerbroker people to have to actually start backing Republicans for office within the county, which they never really do. If that happens, you might see potential farm team candidates in the future, but it won’t be in the next few cycles.
Cooper is not a RINO. He is a Rat socialist.
His district is heavily Rat. That is why he has felt free to vote for every spending bill to come up in Congress. It will be virtually impossible for a Republican to unseat him.
However, a conservative running on the Democrat ticket could challenge him in the primary......
It’ll be good news if the GOP wins the state legislature next year.
It’s not winning the legislature that is the problem, it’s winning the legislature and electing our party’s choice for Speaker. One whackjob RINO prima donna could hijack the whole show as we saw this year. If we don’t dump Traitor Kent (there’s no guarantee the state GOP will decertify him if he runs again - he was NEVER kicked out of the caucus as they promised to do), and if the Dems see another opportunity to make a monkey out of us in 2011, they’d vote for him again and Traitor Kent might bribe a few RINOs (the same ones that voted for Boss Hogg Naifeh) with chairmanships to keep himself in power (and potentially attempt to kibosh the GOP redrawing the lines).
Decertification means political death, a fitting punishment for a traitor.
Hey, he’s free to run as a Democrat, since it was Democrats that hijacked the nomination from his Asian-American Conservative Republican predecessor to vote him in (no Democrats have run in the general in several terms - why would they when Traitor Kent represents them so well ?). Of course, if he does that and wins the general, he’ll just be another jackass in the House and of zero use to their party. They’d never vote for him again as Speaker.
Right..I got that. See my self correction below original post..though it really doesn’t make much of a difference.
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