Paging Ginny Welsch, indeed. Goldni asks Congressman Cooper (D-TN, the Fightin’ 5th!) the question about his Iraq war funding vote that I’ve been stewing about all morning:

Really, Congressman Cooper? For all your talk about “fiscal responsibility,” you really want to pour more money into Iraq without ANY conditions attached? Doesn’t fiscal responsibility require SOME accountability?

I get it (but don’t like it) when Freddie tells me that some of Tennessee’s elected Democratic officials need to represent all of their districts and that some districts are not like Davidson County. But Congressman Cooper does represent the voters in Davidson County and yesterday he did not represent the wishes of his constituents.

If you’d like to remind him of that, he can be reached at 202-225-4311.

I’d also like to add that Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN, the Fightin’ what-eva) needs to take a serious civics lesson if she really believes there’s no value in introducing legislation that you know is going to land on the Presidential chopping block. She said, “The Democrat leadership seems intent to write legislation they know is going to fail.”

Yeah, it’s called the democratic process. And please stop making up your own words. It’s Democratic leadership.

This post was written by Mary Mancini