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Daily Kos founder: Kucinich deserves to be primaried
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Last Edited | Craverguy Mar 10, 2010 02:50pm |
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| Author | David Edwards and Muriel Kane |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 06:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The battle over health care reform is not only pitting liberals against conservatives but also stirring up old feuds on the left.
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."
In an appearance on Countdown the previous night, Kucinich had called the current bill "a giveaway to the insurance industry" and reaffirmed his position that he "couldn't support the bill if it didn't have a robust public option and at least if it didn't have something that was going to protect consumers from these rampant premium increases."
"If that sounded like a no [vote], you're correct," Kucinich told guest host Lawrence O'Donnell.
"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."
"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." |
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