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Barack, thus far you’re doing a real good job. Better than I expected. Thus far.

But today I learned that Depublican Congressclown, Jim Cooper of TN, was being (or had been) considered for the Health and Human Services seat Tom Daschle backed down from.

I know the ears can be rough, but do try and pull your head out of you ass for just a moment and listen to the Skipper….

Rep. Jim “Poopers” Cooper D/R TN, is to health care what a Vulture is to vegetarianism. Which Clintonista asshat in your cabinet dragged that name in? Whoever it is they’re trying to sabotage your Presidency. No secret as to why I suspect.
Jim Cooper is a joke. A bad one, and he isn’t fit to run anything that even remotely has to do with Health Care. I wouldn’t put that bastard, who voted against you on the stimulus by the way, in charge of a box of band-aids.

Having said that, understand that Universal, single-payer Health Care is the primary issue for your base and the most important national issue America is facing. You do know that, don’t you?
Good. Then you might just listen when we tell you that Dr. Howard Dean should have been offered that job in the beginning, and if you ask real nice, Saint Howard might just feel moved to save your narrow ass on this one.

Let’s read some of these facts carefully, Mr. President. There’s a few things you don’t seem to get.

Jim Lux, a former member of the Clinton White House team on health care reform, has some insight you really could benefit from. Us too….

I was part of the Clinton White House team on the health care reform issue in 1993/94, and no Democrat did more to destroy our chances in that fight than Jim Cooper. We had laid down a marker very early that we thought universal coverage was the most essential element to getting a good package, saying we were to happy to negotiate over the details but that universality was our bottom line.

Cooper, a leader of conservative Dems on the health care issue, instead of working with us, came out early and said universality was unimportant, and came out with a bill that did almost nothing in terms of covering the uninsured. He quickly became the leading spokesman on the Dem side for the insurance industry position, and undercut us at every possible opportunity, basically ending any hopes we had for a unified Democratic Party position. I was never so delighted to see a Democrat lose as when he went down in the 1994 GOP tide.

Cooper is and has always been one to sell the people short and give the change to the single most corrupt industry in the nation. Health Insurance. He is cozy with Pharmaceutical and other “Health Care” industry elements as you can see HERE.

It also seems that Cooper is in even deeper with the Right Wing than most of us know…

Koch Industries, (pronounced “coke"), is the largest privately-held company in the United States, with annual sales of $90 billion. (Cargill comes in second for privately-held companies with sales of $75 billion.) Koch’s owners, brothers Charles and David H. Koch, are leading contributors to the Koch Family Foundations, which supports a network of conservative organizations and think tanks, including Citizens for a Sound Economy, the libertarian Cato Institute, Reason Magazine, the Manhattan Institute, the Heartland Institute, and the Democratic Leadership Council.

Fact is, Cooper is borderline NeoCon and that will never be good for anything. Much less America’s health.
Not only should this kook be kept out of your cabinet, Mr. President, but he should be unceremoniously expelled from the Democratic Party.

Hey, Barack. I’m a Leftist. Take it from someone who knows well the feeling of being stabbed in the back by closet Republicans with Blue feathers. Jim Cooper is a zero. Dr. Dean is your man, provided he can overlook the already insulting way you’ve treated him.

That’s a big, blue, crunchy NO on Cooper, Barack. File that back, will ya?

Thanx.

H/T
Digby, metulj