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In reply to the discussion: Bipartisan Resolution to Compel White House to Release Legal Justification for Drone Strikes [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)writing long screeds that have nothing to do with the comment you appear to be addressing.
Kucinich's success rate regarding sponsoring bills is average in Congress. Only Republicans use this nonsense 'he was ineffective' against him because unlike us, they never bother to look anything up. So much for your 'ineffective' claim.
Eg, he was more effective regarding legislation, than Marcy Kaptur, who I happen to love. Passing bills btw, does not determine how good a member of Congress is. They are not there to just keep passing bills to build up a list of useless accomplishments, although far too many of them do that. And I personally wish they had not passed at least 50% of the useless ones they have passed.
Kucinich's proposed bills were Progressive and should have had the support of all real Democrats. This is what we have to correct, the fact that we do not have enough good Democrats when people like Kucinich are willing to do the dirty work, to back him up.
That is certainly not his fault it simply points out a very real problem we must address. We need to elect hundreds of Kucinich's since his views, according to every poll, are very mainstream.
And please drop the right wing framing of good Democrats 'purist'. It's fine for them to do it, because from them we take it as a compliment. No democrat should use it in such a derogatory way against an actual, real Democrat.