national debt

The implications of the falling dollar on our political stability:

When he’s not crusading against those evil rural electric co-ops and denying Nashville its fair share of pork-barrel spending, Congressman Jim Cooper is railing against the national debt. His not particularly original idea to save us from ourselves? Let’s form a bipartisan commission to decide how to cut spending! We can all agree on that, can’t we?

A large family of Huckabee voters endorses Tom Leatherwood for Congress:

Phil Ayres notes a fundemental faiilure in our Democracy:

Rep. Jim Cooper, in a special to Roll Call, pens an open letter to the OMB Director Jim Nussle chastising him for trying to lay the nation’s financial problems completely at the door step of Congress:

Mark Halperin reports the 8th District Congressman will commit his superdelegate vote to

I was on the elliptical machine at the YMCA here in Kokomo, IN today. I was listening to the new Counting Crows record on my ipod while the tv in front of me was tuned to the Montel Williams show. The closed captioning was on so I could read the conversation as I worked out.

Congressman Steve Cohen represents the 9th district in Memphis, and is doing a superb job for Memphis, and in representing all progressives in Tennessee in a positive light.

I'm happy to post an unedited press release from Congressman Cohen.

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

The Tennessee Democratic Party has a beef with the amount of money Lamar Alexander is charging for photos with the former President at a fundraiser her in Nashville: