Congressman Jim Cooper & Links from this morning’s show

Posted by Mary Mancini on August 21, 2006 under Uncategorized |

Our honored guest this morning was Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee’s 5th District (the fighting 5th!). The Congressman recently published in book form, The Financial Report of the U.S. aka “The Report the Government Doesn’t Want You to See,” an official government document released by the Bush administration in the middle of December 2005. The report provides a more accurate picture of the U.S. deficit, which Cooper writes in the foreward of the book, is much greater than President Bush tells us it is. Archive of interview available here.

And Mary gets one degree closer to Stephen Colbert when he mentions the Saginaw Spirit, the hockey team her brother coaches, on The Colbert Report. Email the team and tell them to name their new mascot after Stephen - Stevie Spirit, mini-mascot to their existing mascot, Sammy Spirit! (Please type MASCOT in the email subject line and include name, birthday, phone number, address, and email address)

Must Watch
“The Nexus of Politics and Terror”, Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC)
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann updates his top 10 list of occasions that the Bush Administration has gained political benefits around the same time that the public’s fear of terrorism was at a peak.

Must Reads
“Snake Eyes”, by Hendrik Hertzberg (The New Yorker)
“…in this August of 2006 a palpable, ‘68-like shift in sentiment is in the steamy air.”

“What Next?”, By Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack (The Washington Post) The debate is over: By any definition, Iraq is in a state of civil war.

“What Are We Fighting For? Not Democracy”, by William Arkin (washingtonpost.com) Arkin, with among the most incisive commentaries I’ve yet read on the roadmap for Iraq reveals that “adapt to win” is a different animal altogether than “stay the course”. In fact, the Republican strategy is actually “cut and run”… so we can capture bin Laden… in Iraq.

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