Even the last hold-out, Kucinich, has proven himself to be irrelevant.
Obama pulled that stunt (a Brooks' Brothers-type rally in Kucinich's state) after all of the progressives who had pledged to not vote for a bill without a public option had caved -- Obama didn't need Kucinich EXCEPT to break the back of the call for a public option, to break the momentum of the left's call for it. What Kucinich did was even more treacherous, carried even more betrayal than the other progressives who had caved.
What Kucinich did was equivalent to "Et tu, Brute?"
By the way, what the Kucinich-tale shows us is how selling out, how caving to save yourself ("to fight another day" is what you try to sell it) never works:
The DLC-controlled Democratic Party machine is redistricting Kucinich out of a seat.
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