Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 17:37:56 PM EST
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( - promoted by Jack's Smirking Revenge)
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
In an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC's Countdown, Daily Kos* founder Markos Moulitsas criticized Rep. Dennis Kucinich's** threat to vote against health care reform legislation as "a very Ralph Nader-esque approach to politics" and indicated that he would consider such a vote to be legitimate grounds for a primary challenge.
"It's not perfect," Moulitsas said of the current health care legislation, "but it's a first step, and God knows it's taken us a long time to even get our toe in the door. ... If somebody like Kucinich wants to block that, I find that completely reprehensible."
"Is it reprehensible enough to mount a primary challenge against him?" O'Donnell asked. "Is it possible to be too liberal?"
"Absolutely," Moulitsas responded. "I don't think he gets a pass. I don't care what his excuse is. ... He"s not elected to grandstand and to give us his ideal utopian society. ... He's not representing the uninsured constituents in his district by pretending to take the high ground here. ... I think that's the perfect excuse and rationale for a primary challenge.***" [link]
Of course, Political Genius Mamz has no idea that the filing deadline has already passed: "The Ohio primary takes place on May 4, and the filing deadline for candidates was February 18," Dayen notes. "Kucinich has no Democratic challenger." -- maybe mamzie would like to return to his roots and start supporting Republicans again.
* DailyKos is a website dedicated to electing Democrats.
** Rep. Dennis Kucinch is a Democrat.
*** Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga aka Kos should be banned from DailyKos. As many others have been banned in the past. |
| buddydrama :: Unbelievable! Mamz calls for primary challenge for Kucinich |
"Ralph Nader paved the way for eight years of George Bush," Moulitsas explained to O'Donnell on Tuesday, referring to Nader's third-party campaign for president in 2000. "I'm going to hold people like Dennis Kucinich responsible for the 40,000 Americans that die each year from a lack of health care."
But one diarist at Daily Kos reacted with far greater dismay to the attack on Kucinich, calling it, "the night the left in America died."
"It looks like the purge of the left and the final push for the corporate-care insurance bill is on," writes poplist2003. "Topping it all off was the astonishing attack on Dennis Kucinich tonight by Markos on the Countdown show, culminating in a call for a primary challenge (presumably by a nice centrist corporate 'Democrat' - how about Harold Ford?) to Kucinich. The bill itself is bad enough. But what is truly tragic is the way that nominally progressive entities are turning on the most progressive members of their own party." [link]
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? |
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