Rep. Dennis Kucinich Is No Joke … Ask This Right-Wing Doctor

Rep. Dennis Kucinich is the truth and you better have your house in order when you step to him spouting off talking points.

Dr. David Gratzer, a Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute, got into it with Rep. Kucinich during a discussion about Single-Payer health care before the House Education Subcommittee.

Dr. Gratzer was spouting what Rep. Kucinich believed were little more than right-wing talking points while (among other things) talking down the Canadian health care system.

SIDE NOTE: There is a guy in back of the doctor who seems to be cracking up as Rep. Kucinich continues to in essence verbally drum Dr. Gratzer (who eventually begins to pout) into the ground.

He had no answer.

Think Progress Updates On Rep. Steve King’s Inexplicable Vote

Losing 399-1 might change the opinion of some people, but not to pig-headed individuals like Rep. Steve King, a Republican from Iowa.

I blogged earlier about Rep. King’s absurd vote and Think Progress updates on King’s rationale as he tries to spin his idiotic “no” vote.

Here is what King said as he went into damage-control mode:

KING: I would just add that there were about 645,000 slaves that were brought to the United States. And I’m with Martin Luther King, Jr. on this. His documents, his speeches – I’ve read most of them. And I agree with almost every word that came out of him. Slavery was abhorrent, but it was also a fact of life in those centuries where it existed.

And of the 645,000 Africans that were brought here to be forcibly put into slavery in the United States, there were over 600,000 people that gave their lives in the Civil War to put an end to slavery. And I don’t see the monument to that in the Congressional Visitor Center, and I think it’s important that we have a balanced depiction of history.

Here, briefly, is how Think Progress, responded:

The Capitol Visitor Center is simply trying to recognize the work of those who built the Capitol. But King is apparently concerned that slaves are being unduly recognized while Union soldiers who fought for their emancipation are not getting any credit. He simply needs to open his eyes and look around Washington, DC. If he steps right outside the Capitol, he’ll see the Ulysses S. Grant memorial, a monument that commemorates the former general of the Union Army.

This guy is ridiculous.

Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/09/king-slave-labor-vote/