Dead Man Walking

On Thursday, The Hill newspaper reported that Lincoln Davis was among several members of Congress whom Hillary Clinton had invited to a meeting in hopes of wooing them but declined to attend.

Jim Cooper, speaking to the Memphis Daily News, added fuel to the situation:

"He says that's not true," U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., told The Daily News about Davis' refusal to meet with Clinton. "But that's on the front page of The Hill. I told him he might as well go ahead and endorse Barack (Obama), because once Hillary sees that he's a dead man anyway."

Cooper, of course, knows quite well what happens when you get on the Clinton's wrong side, as he did in the health care fight in 1993:

"They turned up their nose at my bill, and that's fine. But then they constructed this secret 500-person task force to draft a whole new bill - and I knew it would go nowhere," Cooper said. "So I went privately to the White House to warn (Hillary Clinton). No publicity. No nothing.

"She brought in a camera to record the meeting. And she has not released the memos on this meeting. She immediately declared war on me. I warned her we didn't even have the votes (for her bill) in our subcommittee. She said, 'We're going to (politically) cut your legs off.' I've never gotten such a cold reception as I got from her."

Cooper said the first lady set up a war room to undercut Cooper, who was gearing up for a run at the U.S. Senate in 1994. And a former television news reporter from Nashville was tasked with leading that war room, he said.

I don't think this point can be repeated enough. We'd have Senator Jim Cooper now, rather than Grandpa Fred and subsequently Lamar! Alexander, if it had not been for Hillary Clinton and her inability to handle dissent.

UPDATE: Funny quote from the Hill article:

Rep. Dale Kildee, a Clinton supporter from Michigan, which Clinton won with 55 percent of the vote, said she should halt her campaign and carefully consider whether it makes sense to keep going.

“I urge her to take the day off and think very seriously about doing what’s best for the country and best for the party,” said Kildee.

He added, “I got straight A’s in math,” implying that Obama’s delegate lead is impossible for Clinton to overcome in the few primaries left.

Only educated people know math. It's obvious that Rep. Kildee is an ELITIST who hates hard-working white Americans.