Obama Lapdog Perhaps...But Pelosi?

Greg Johnson, the lapdog for right-wing hillbillies at the Knox News Sentinel, has a post excoriating Rep. Jim Cooper as a "lapdog" for Nancy Pelosi because he voted to move a bill out of the House that he wasn't a huge fan of:

Cooper voted "aye" for PelosiCare with the dreamy caveat that "it will get better in the Senate." The one-time fiscal conservative (he can't say that anymore) and budget hawk (this vote forever disqualifies him from that moniker) was likely safe to vote "aye" since Nashville ranks second in Tennessee in the number of lefties only to Memphis.

I didn't forget Cooper. I just moved him out of the Blue Dog category and into the Pelosi Lap Dog category.

If Cooper is anything he's a shill for passing a health care reform package in this Congress. While he fought, kicked, bitched, and moaned to get the bill changed before the vote, he was smart enough to realize that a failure to pass this bill (which won't be the final bill signed by the President) would be a death knell for health insurance reform for perhaps another decade or so to come. He did the responsible thing in moving the process along...if seeing the bigger picture excludes him from the blue-dog club, I'm sure he'd be OK with that.

(h/t ACK)