Jim Cooper actually said...

This must be an election year. I thought that statement, from my good friend, was needlessly alarmist and partisan.

We are all Americans, we all want a stronger country, we all want a strong missile defense, and we all should pay for it.

I hope that the public understands that, you know, we can have as strong a defense as we want to have, but just got to pay for it.

I think it is a serious mistake to just have a political policy of blaming everything on the President.