The Left Versus Coop

By Kleinheider Posted on May 12, 2008 at 1:23 pm

Jeff Woods notes a leftist blogger who has little use for our fair congressman of the Fighting 5th:

Jim Cooper is a right-wing Democrat, about as bad as they come. Of the 234 Democratic members of Congress with a rating in Progressive Punch, Jim Cooper ranks as the 215th most progressive. He is a Blue Dog, a term that was coined for Democrats who were supposedly “”choked blue” by those “extreme” Democrats, from the left.” He is also a Bush Dog, voting both to continue funding the war with a blank check and to grant warrantless spying powers on American citizens via FISA. And he does this all from a blue-leaning district, TN-05, a D +6 district won by the likes of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakais. To put this in perspective, he ranks just above Leonard Boswell, who is 216th on progressive punch, despite being in a far more Democratic district than Boswell. And Boswell’s district leans blue. Mike Lux wrote an important piece about Cooper back in February.

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