My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up:
My time-space continuum warped when I heard that Dennis Kucinich had talked to tea partiers and found common ground.
After the Democratic defeat in Massachusetts last month, Kucinich said, “There’s nothing liberal about the bailouts. There’s nothing liberal about standing by and watching banks use public money to get their executive bonuses. There’s nothing liberal about giving insurance companies carte blanche to charge anything they want for health care…Since when did that become liberal?”
A lot of citizens who once stumped for Obama – for change and hope, they thought – feel betrayed.
Says one man, “I was a volunteer for Mr. Obama during the first Iowa caucus back in December 2007. I walked around risking frostbite for lack of adequate winter clothing, and had overdrafted on my checking account for want of gas money…America is on a downslide. Obama was the pressure point to reduce that trend. Nobody thought he was a God, but MY God I never thought he’d be such an inutil.”
Inutil is Spanish. It means good-for-nothing.
That opinion came from the comment section of Paul Krugman’s recent column “America Is Not Yet Lost,” in which he proposes that America’s current trajectory is not so much like the fall of Rome as it is like 18th-century Poland, in which it took only one obstructionist legislator to paralyze lawmaking…
Read the rest on AOL. Is Dennis Kucinich Joining the Tea Party Movement?
