Spend, tax, waste, insult, lie, hate…
A Life in the Congress
Stephen Ira Cohen has been a career politician in Tennessee since being elected in 1978 at age 29 to the Shelby County Commission. He joined the Tennessee Senate in 1983 and was elected to Tennessee’s 9th congressional district in 2007 where he currently serves. The district includes the western three-fourths of Memphis. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The reason we feature Rep. Cohen here is that he is typical of career politicians in that he obediently follows the party line without any concern for the future effects on the well-being of we the people. Deficit spending is one negative result that indebts the next generations –current national debt is $27.8 trillion which comes down to $84,000 per person in the United States. Politicians use the spending to satisfy certain groups who will then vote for them. Getting reelected is Job#1 for the career pols.
President Biden is advocating for another $1.9 trillion or more ostensibly to provide coronavirus relief. But there is little in it that actually affects the pandemic. It mostly consists of bailouts to the poorly managed blue states and various partisan groups and projects. There may be some actual relief in this relief bill, but the cost of the bill can be significantly reduced.
Examining Rep. Cohen’s spending record he can be expected to vote for any and all spending regardless of demonstrable relief or need. You can click on the links to examine the individual votes in each of rating agencies sites.
His voting record scored 13% rated “F” by the non-partisan National Taxpayers Union shows no spending restraint. NTU calls Rep. Cohen “Big Spender” based on his individual voting record. Every year National Taxpayers Union (NTU) rates Congress on their actual votes—every vote that affects taxes, spending, and debt. NTU refuses to play the “rating game” of focusing on only a handful of congressional votes on selected issues. The NTU voting study is the fairest and most accurate guide available on congressional spending. It is a completely unbiased accounting of votes.
Citizens Against government Waste At 5% lifetime, Cohen is considered Hostile to Taxpayers. CAGW works to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government through research and public education activities. Today, CAGW is nationally recognized as the source of information on government waste. CAGW’s waste findings have been featured in virtually every national newspaper and news magazine.
The Club for Growth Foundation’s annual Congressional Scorecard tracks how members of Congress vote on economic legislation. The Club issues Key Vote Alerts urging Congress to vote in favor of economic policies that strengthen our nation’s economy and against legislation that would raise taxes, increase harmful regulations, and grow our already massive government. At the end of the year, the Club for Growth Foundation conducts a study of how members of Congress voted on key issues and ascribes a score. Those rating 90 or higher receive the Defender of Economic Freedom award. At 7% lifetime score, Cohen gets no award –except maybe from his lobbyists.
Conservative Heritage Action turns conservative ideas into reality on Capitol Hill. They do that by holding lawmakers accountable to their promises to advance the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Cohen’s lifetime voting record of 9% shows his opposition to those principles.
Americans for Democratic Action Since ADA’s founding in 1947, the Annual Voting Records have served as the standard measure of political liberalism. Combining 20 key votes on a wide range of social and economic issues, both domestic and international, the Liberal Quotient (LQ) provides a basic overall picture of an elected official’s political position. At LQ 95 Cohen proves his commitment to Big Government.
Rep. Cohen showed another side when he implied that 75% of the National Guard are in the class of white men who “may want to do something” at the inauguration. Cohen is saying that National Guard troops who voted for Trump should automatically be suspected of being threats. Gen. Jack Keane (ret.) slammed Cohen for questioning pro-Trump National Guardsmen’s loyalty to America. “Congressman Cohen’s statement, it’s not only outrageous …that’s significantly irresponsible and is completely baseless …He should apologize for something like that,” Keane told FOX Business’ Maria Bartiromo.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Rep. Lauren Boebert, should sue a Democratic colleague (Cohen) for slander for accusing her of offering a “large” group tour in the Capitol days ahead of their planned Jan 6 riot. “If I were her, I would sue the guy for slander and make him give a public apology. I can’t think of a worse thing to say about a fellow American (Boebert) than they were in on the effort to defile the Capitol.” She says she gave a tour to her family on Jan 2 and they were inside on Jan 3 for her swearing in ceremony. Cohen’s claims resulted in “threats to my safety as well as the safety of my family and Congressional staff.”
Rep. Cohen recently turned up at a House Judiciary Committee hearing intent on mocking Attorney General William Barr with whom he was having a dispute. Accusing Barr of cowardice, Cohen ate a helping of Colonel Sanders’ finest at around 9 a.m. Then he waived a ceramic chicken saying, “Chicken Barr should have showed up today … It’s a sad day in America.”
“Rep. Steve Cohen’s KFC stunt wasn’t finger-lickin’ good,” according to Doug Heye on a CNN piece. “Just when you think our politics can’t get any dumber, along comes a congressman with some chicken.”
Seriously, Rep. Cohen is simply “one of the worst of a bad lot” in our series of Posters proving the need to pass the term limit amendment on Congress. Surely, we can do better. We need people with real life experience who come to public service with a goal to help run the government efficiently for a period and then return to live under the laws they pass. See www.termlimits.com for details of the proposed amendment and progress being made to pass it.
Finally, he epitomizes the hate his Democratic Party expresses for President Trump. He has admitted to his absolute out-of-control hatred for the President. In an interview on national television, Cohen admitted that he really hates Trump –even emphasizing his hatred for Trump by repeating it several times.
Do we need term limits –or what?
