Obama Debt Speech: Tax Increases, Medicare Changes Included In President's Plan

With all due respect, when Kucinich had the chance to make a difference­, he caved.

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.

The DLC-controlled Democratic Party machine is redistricting Kucinich out of a seat. https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/steny-hoyer-audio-levi-tillemann/?comments=1
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