Obama Assault Weapons Ban Proposal Recalls Memories Of 1994 Battle

Let's look at another alleged progressive champion, Dennis Kucinich, who has found a new home (Fox), and they're welcome to him.

Dennis Kucinich proved himself to be irrelevant years ago­. 

In the closing days of the health care debate and legislatio­n when getting change in our healthcare system was possible, 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. 

And 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?"

For those who still defend Obama and believe he really wants single payer or a public option, where was that same single-mindedness that he used on the Progressive Caucus (and is now using against the NRA) when it came to going up against Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, the other Blue Dogs and even Olympia Snowe? If the president of the United States had used the bully pulpit against them and still failed, a lot of progressiv­es would have respected that and said, "You tried your best". But Obama didn't try. He cut a corporate-welfare deal. Months earlier, cutting the will of the People off at the knees. The public was powerless in the backroom deal.

By the way, what the Kucinich-t­ale shows us is how selling out, how caving to save yourself ("to fight another day" is how he tried to sell it) never works: He was redistricted out of a seat and the White House put its weight behind anti-choice Democrat Marcy Kaptur.

And in the closing days of his career in Congress last month, Kucinich voted for that corporate-pork laden "Fiscal Cliff" deal.
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