Comments on: JIM COOPER, WAR CRIMINAL? http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/jim-cooper-war-criminal/ scripts from The Green Hour radio show on WRFN-LP, Nashville Tennessee Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:52:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: brothermartin http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/jim-cooper-war-criminal/#comment-479 brothermartin Wed, 14 May 2008 16:33:18 +0000 http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-479 Sad and cynical, but true, relatively speaking...alas, Cooper's limited vision (and the limited vision of his corporate johns) has spent America's capital and credit on a passel of projects that won't be worth jack in the coming economy...of course, as long as they last (until we can't afford the maintenance any more) all those highways will be great for bicycles and rollerblades and skateboards, and horses and buggies too, for those who still have them and the skills to use them...then the bridges wlll go out and it'll just be a big mess. And to thiink we could have had a sustainable economy instead.... Sad and cynical, but true, relatively speaking…alas, Cooper’s limited vision (and the limited vision of his corporate johns) has spent America’s capital and credit on a passel of projects that won’t be worth jack in the coming economy…of course, as long as they last (until we can’t afford the maintenance any more) all those highways will be great for bicycles and rollerblades and skateboards, and horses and buggies too, for those who still have them and the skills to use them…then the bridges wlll go out and it’ll just be a big mess.

And to thiink we could have had a sustainable economy instead….

]]> By: Jon Davidson http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/jim-cooper-war-criminal/#comment-477 Jon Davidson Wed, 14 May 2008 05:12:07 +0000 http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-477 Well, of course I don't expect you to actually understand Cooper's Blue Dog thing in the greater sense, but it should be fairly obvious that being in this Blue Dog Coalition makes his vote more valuable than others', so he continues to bring home a disproportionate percentage of the pork for Tennessee, and he gets paid off like clockwork. His vote is worth cold cash. He'd be stupid not to offer the most valuable product he can create. Well, of course I don’t expect you to actually understand Cooper’s Blue Dog thing in the greater sense, but it should be fairly obvious that being in this Blue Dog Coalition makes his vote more valuable than others’, so he continues to bring home a disproportionate percentage of the pork for Tennessee, and he gets paid off like clockwork.
His vote is worth cold cash. He’d be stupid not to offer the most valuable product he can create.

]]> By: brothermartin http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/jim-cooper-war-criminal/#comment-437 brothermartin Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:55:37 +0000 http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-437 well, i read that, but i still don't "grok" it....looks to me like they got their heads up their bungholes about as far as they can push 'em....ostrich-like, y'know what i mean? well, i read that, but i still don’t “grok” it….looks to me like they got their heads up their bungholes about as far as they can push ‘em….ostrich-like, y’know what i mean?

]]> By: Albert Bates http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/jim-cooper-war-criminal/#comment-436 Albert Bates Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:35:23 +0000 http://brothermartin.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-436 To understand Cooper's politics (why would a congressman in a safe seat, whose constituents are far more liberal than he is, become a Southern Joe Leiberman?), you need to grok the Blue Dog philosophy. Jim Cooper is one of the Blue Dogs' elder statesmen. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition. To understand Cooper’s politics (why would a congressman in a safe seat, whose constituents are far more liberal than he is, become a Southern Joe Leiberman?), you need to grok the Blue Dog philosophy. Jim Cooper is one of the Blue Dogs’ elder statesmen. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition.

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