Jim Cooper actually said...

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.

BRAC is one of the most visible areas in which we in Congress have tied the Pentagon's hands.