Cooper An Original Bush Dog On Iraq and FISA

Submitted by Charles on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 08:49

In the summer of 2007, Open Left drew a list of two simple criteria for defining "Bush Dog" Democrats, the right-wing Dems who had betrayed their constituents and enabled President Bush. The two votes they used to define the original list of 38 Bush Dogs were two key issues (and losses) for Democrats and progressives that year: the vote to capitulate to Bush on Iraq and the original vote to give Bush warrantless wiretapping powers.

Unsurprisingly, Jim Cooper voted the wrong way - against his constituents - on both, giving him the ignominious honor of being named an Original Bush Dog.

What's more, while Cooper was leading the charge to empower George W. Bush on Iraq and warrantless wiretaps in 2007, he was representing the 2nd most Democratic district of the entire list of the 38 right-wing Democrats.

Cooper's support for Bush on Iraq in the summer of 2007 continued a pattern of support for Bush since he began representing his new district in Nashville in January 2003, voting for blank check after blank check to fund the war, and even voting for a Republican resolution in 2006 that voiced support for Bush's war policies and rejected setting a date for withdrawal. And in the midst of the FISA fight in 2008, Cooper was one of 21 Blue Dogs who in March 2008 actively worked to ensure immunity for telecommunications companies remained in the final legislation. (Unsurprisingly, according to OpenSecrets.org, AT&T has been Cooper's 7th top contributor over the course of his career.)

When President Bush was in office, Jim Cooper was a leader in enabling some of Bush's worst abuses on Iraq and FISA. Since President Obama has taken office, Jim Cooper has been a leader in working against some of Obama's most important priorities on the stimulus and health care. And through both administrations, he has answered to his corporate donors ahead of his constituents.

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