SHADOWS ON HIGH: KUCINICH CRAZY? HARDLY!

[babsbunny]

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/brianrothenberg/C3Mv

By Brian Rothenberg - Sep 28th, 2007 at 11:26 am EDT
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The phones started ringing Wednesday: Office, Cleveland cell, Columbus cell, e-mail. What is Dennis doing, they wondered. He voted against health insurance for kids.

SCHIP, or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, is a federal program that expires next week after 10 years. In Ohio, it is administered by the Department of Job & Family Services, and Governor Ted Strickland made its expansion a key part of his budget that GOP Speaker Jon Husted, and Senate President Bill Harris, signed onto with gusto.

[slick8790]

1. No ,he's not crazy.

He's stubborn and too idealistic. Sometimes you can't go from zero to 100 in one shot. It's a stupid vote, even for a purist. The article said the vote was going to pass anyway, but does that make it right? If it comes down to overriding a veto, can Dennis be counted on to insure some children as opposed to no children? Because that's what it comes down to. Frankly, I feel lucky this even has a shot of passing at all, with bush's record of "fiscal discipline" he seems to tout so much. Sometimes you just need to bite the bullet and take a small win now, and try for a bigger one from a position of strength (democratic president), rather than taking loss after loss for the sake of your ideals.