Friday, December 08, 2006
Representative Cooper defends a cop-killer
What on earth's happened to U.S. Representative Jim Cooper? Prior to his leaving the U.S. House in 1994 to run - unsuccessfully - for the U.S. Senate, Cooper was widely considered to be a moderate to conservative Democrat. He earned this reputation by doing such things as offering a scaled-down, more business-friendly alternative to Hillary Clinton's 1993 national health care scheme.
Since returning to the U.S. House in 2002, Rep. Cooper has competed with Harold Ford, Jr., aka Junior, for the title of Tennessee's Most Liberal Member of Congress. His latest foray into the left-wing deep end was his refusal this week to vote against a non-binding resolution condemning the decision by the city of St. Denis, France, to name a street after Mumia Abu-Jamal, the dreadlocked left-wing activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering Philadelphia Police Officer Danny Faulkner.
Bill Hobbs has the complete story here.
Since returning to the U.S. House in 2002, Rep. Cooper has competed with Harold Ford, Jr., aka Junior, for the title of Tennessee's Most Liberal Member of Congress. His latest foray into the left-wing deep end was his refusal this week to vote against a non-binding resolution condemning the decision by the city of St. Denis, France, to name a street after Mumia Abu-Jamal, the dreadlocked left-wing activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering Philadelphia Police Officer Danny Faulkner.
Bill Hobbs has the complete story here.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Friday, December 08, 2006 
