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Posts Tagged ‘Jim Cooper’

  • The Dirty Job That Congress Won’t Do on Its Own

    Posted November 19th, 2009 at 2:13pm in Entitlements 0

    Congress needs someone like Mike Rowe to do the dirty job that politicians won’t touch. Our $1.4-trillion (and rising!) annual deficit and $12-trillion accumulated debt are not caused by the economy. They’re caused by runaway spending. Unable or unwilling to specify and enforce spending cuts on their own, some in Congress are calling for help by [...] More

  • Apparently Budgetary Tradeoffs Don’t Apply to New Presidents

    Posted November 12th, 2008 at 5:51pm in Ongoing Priorities 1

    Has the Blue Dog Coalition given up on their version of fiscal responsibility? Jim Cooper (D-TN), leader of the Blue Dogs – the self-described fiscally-conservative group of congressional Democrats – was quoted in a Wall Street Journal op-ed announcing, “I’m not sure the old rules are relevant anymore… It would be unfair to the new [...] More