Leading off today’s post, Greenwald chastises the Nashville representative for his votes on the war in Iraq, surveillance, national security and, yes, health care. All familiar territory by this point.
More interestingly, he describes the activities of a PAC called Accountability Now, a group that describes its mission as “challenging the institutional power structures that make it so easy, so consequence-free for Congress to open up the government coffers for looting by corporate America while people across the country are losing their jobs and their basic constitutional rights while unable to afford basic health care.”
Here’s what Greenwald says they’re up to:
All of that — along with Cooper’s weak polling numbers — has led Accountability Now to name him as the first target for a primary challenge. The group’s Executive Director has spent substantial time in Nashville speaking with several highly promising, vibrant and credible potential challengers and expects to have an announcement soon. A new website has been launched to monitor Cooper’s record and inform voters in his district about who he is and who owns him, along with a Cooperblog, to be updated daily.
Local pundit Jeff Woods isn’t so sure there’s much point to the anti-Cooper sentiment.