Dennis Kucinich on Cuts to SS

[OhioChick]

⚠ Say NO to the #President's cuts to #SosSec and NO to #tax increases! Stop spending on phony #wars that are undermining our #security. 🇺🇸

https://twitter.com/Dennis_Kucinich/status/320147679592185856

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Kick and Rec - I miss Dennis being in Congress, but he's pretty effective out of congress too!

[bigdarryl]

2. PLEASE PLEASE!!!! get that man back in the Congress

[xiamiam]

3. in a nutshell...phony wars for corporate profits..

kill people for a decade..destroy lives and now thats not enough, bring the war home and go after seniors ...pitiful

[michigandem58]

4. Shame on Kucinich

It's easy to take pot shots when you don't have to lead. The President has to look at the whole picture, including compromising when necessary.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. Here, you forgot something -

[noiretextatique]

7. right?

let the president play 3d chess, for pete's sake! the third way folks don't need no damn liberal base interfering with their beloved game.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. Dennis Who?

[Matariki]

19. A man who's contributed more to the nation than Tarheel Dem, proabably

lol, right?

[liberal_at_heart]

22. Will you still be laughing when dems lose congressional seats in 2014?

[Tarheel_Dem]

23. Not sure what Kooch has to do with 2014. He already lost.

[Capt. Obvious]

31. And you are?

[Tarheel_Dem]

33. I'm the guy who didn't see a fuckin' UFO. Next question?

[Capt. Obvious]

35. You're also clever

[Tarheel_Dem]

37. Why thank you. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waiter.

[MineralMan]

8. Wasn't he a Congressman once upon a time?

[OhioChick]

12. Cuyahoga County still misses him n/t

[MineralMan]

14. I'm sure the people there do. I like him, too.

I wonder what he has planned...

[Tarheel_Dem]

36. Fox News "Contributor". That is such an oxymoron, I pee just a little everytime I hear that term.

His first feat will be to actually "contribute news" to Fox.

Dennis Kucinich Joins Fox News
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/fox-news-dennis-kucinich_n_2489922.html

[SMC22307]

13. Yes. More than you and those rolling on the floor laughing...

will ever be.

[MineralMan]

15. No doubt. I never thought about running for Congress.

How about you?

[Tarheel_Dem]

21. Well, I wasn't in Congress for over a decade, but I'm gonna bet you didn't know this.....

".....Just look at this section from the biography on his congressional Web site":

http://www.salon.com/2010/03/10/kos_kucinich/

"In Congress, Kucinich has authored and co-sponsored legislation to create a national health care system, preserve Social Security, lower the costs of prescription drugs, provide economic development through infrastructure improvements, abolish the death penalty, provide universal prekindergarten to all 3, 4, and 5 year olds, create a Department of Peace, regulate genetically engineered foods, repeal the USA PATRIOT Act, and provide tax relief to working class families."

"Notice that the bio never says whether any of that legislation actually passed. In fact, according to the Web site GovTrack, of the 97 bills Kucinich has sponsored since taking office in 1997, only three have become law. Ninety-three didn’t even make it out of committee."

"The three that were enacted are, in chronological order from first to last: A bill “to make available to the Ukranian Museum and Archives the USIA television program ‘Window on America,’” a bill “to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 14500 Lorain Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio as the ‘John P. Gallagher Post Office Building” and a bill “proclaiming Casimir Pulaski to be an honorary citizen of the United States posthumously.”

Now I know SOME liberals have this disconnected utopian view of Kooch, but after nearly 16 yrs. in Congress, these are his legislative successes. Let's face it, Kooch was our Michelle Bachmann...nutty as a fruitcake, but beloved by a tiny ideological portion of the base. Is there any wonder he wound up at Fox News? Leave it to Dennis to lend his "credibility" to a discredited news outlet, but he can't be "bought". Never!

[Comrade_McKenzie]

27. Maybe he can do the UFO report on FOX... or History Channel. nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

30. I think he'd be just as useful there, as he's been in Congress for damn near 2 decades.

[99Forever]

16. Yes he was.

Dennis Kucinich was an actual Democratic Congressperson.

You remember those, don't you? The ones with actual spines?

[MineralMan]

17. He was. I liked him, too, as a congressman.

I hope he'll be in office again. Right now, though, he has the same status you do.

[99Forever]

18. You liked him?

Then why the snark?

And no, I don't kid myself that I'm even in DK's league. If he were Prez, we sure wouldn't have him saying the crap like came out of the WH today. He damn sure wouldn't be selling us out in search some "Grand Bargain" that is nothing more than another giveaway to the 1%.

[MineralMan]

20. It's not snark. He lost an election due to redistricting.

Some people think he should have been President, but he was never able to muster enough support to even get close.

He was a Congressman. Now he's not. No snark. Just the facts.

Of course I liked him. I'd like a majority of him in the House. I'm doing my best to get more people like him elected. In the meantime, I have to deal with what folks in other states elect. Not much I can do about House races anywhere but in Minnesota.

Go look up Betty McCollum. She's my representative. I've been helping her get re-elected since 2004. She's great.

Don't mistake liking someone who was in office for a belief that his opinion matters out of office. It doesn't. If he runs again, and gets elected, his opinion will affect legislation again. Right now, he is out of office.

[Marr]

24. And those with 'our status' should be quiet while the insiders make their cuts?

I don't follow you.

[MineralMan]

25. I did not say you should do anything.

I gave my opinion.

[Marr]

28. Again, I don't follow you.

Since I have to assume you knew that Dennis Kucinich was once a Congressman, I could only interpret your initial comment as kneejerk mockery, and an insinuation that he's irrelevant.

You followed it up by confirming that you were indeed already aware of his former position, and that now he 'has the same status you do'.

So-- I'm just trying to understand. Was I correct in reading your initial remark as one of simple, kneejerk mockery, or do you think people with 'our status' shouldn't comment or be heard?

[MineralMan]

29. You will read my post however

you read it.

[NCTraveler]

9. Fucking hippie.

Why would we look to anything he says when the centrist/conservative model works so well.

[treestar]

10. They are Republicans' cuts

DK has been in the House and should know how it got this way.

[840high]

26. k/r one of the few

honest men.

[rucky]

32. #hashtagabuse

other than that, Go Dennis!

[bigwillq]

34. K and R (nt)