Jim Cooper
Jim Cooper
James Hayes Shofner "Jim" Cooperis the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Blue Dog Coalition. He previously represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1983 to 1995...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 June 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.
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We keep adding new touches to keep it a special event.
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We thought it was our time to win, but I guess not. I can now officially say I think this is the best team I've ever had. I refused to say it until they got to this moment.
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The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.
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We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.
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True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.
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Few people realize that Bush could slash any program in federal government with the approval of a simple majority in the Senate and the House.
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It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
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We won the battle of the crowds. There's a lot of enthusiasm in the community. This particular school has not won a state title. So it's a pretty starved community.
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When we don't save, we can't even lend money to our government. Today, more than 40% of our huge national debt is owned by foreign countries.
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Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.
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I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.
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