Coop’s true colors
You may have heard that Congressman Barney Frank — perhaps the closest thing we’ve got to a sitting left-libertarian and certainly one of the few on the hill with anything resembling honor, or even a basic a grip on right and wrong — has introduced the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults Act of 2008, to remove federal criminal penalties for small possession and transport.
Naturally I wrote to our Congressman Jim Cooper and asked him to support this no-brainer of a bill. Naturally, he declined. I couldn’t grok from his response whether he hated freedom, opposed bodily autonomy, or just lacked the integrity to do the right thing. Whatever the case, it’s another appalling black mark on his record.
Which makes me sad, because I basically like the guy. He’s right just often enough to be really frustrating how often he’s wrong. But though he may be one of the least offensive of the “Bush Dogs”, he doesn’t make it easy to defend him.
What was his response?
I trashed it already, but it was your basic “I like kids and drugs are bad, therefore I know better than you what you should be allowed to do” type of nonsensical calculated posturing.