{"id":8864,"date":"2013-01-17T02:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8864"},"modified":"2013-01-18T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T22:08:36","slug":"life-after-congress-dennis-kucinich-and-allen-west-take-different-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8864","title":{"rendered":"Life After Congress: Dennis Kucinich And Allen West Take Different Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"

The election last November returned President Obama and most of congress to the jobs they already had. However, a few notable exceptions resulted in changes to the Washington roster. This year we know what happened to a couple of the losers.<\/p>\n

Dennis Kucinich was something of an enigma. He held fairly reliable liberal positions on issues related to the economy and the environment. He was also staunchly pro-life<\/s> [Correction: Kucinich changed his position on abortion in 2002]<\/em>. One of the more annoying traits he displayed was his eagerness to appear on Fox News where he would be abused by right-wing anchors and panelists and waste everyone’s time by expressing opinions that Fox viewers would never give serious consideration.<\/p>\n

Now that he lost his seat in a primary that pitted him against a fellow Democrat due to redistricting, he is making the trek to Fox more permanent. It was announced today that Kucinich has signed on to be a regular contributor on the network that only hires Democrats as either targets to humiliate or puppets to manipulate into attacking their former colleagues.<\/p>\n

Allen West was not enigmatic in the least. He was a flaming right-wing lunatic who believed that the Democratic caucus was teeming with commies and threw Nazi references around as if they were compliments. He was so certifiably nuts that even Fox wouldn’t touch him. So he signed up with the also-rans at Pajamas Media where he will be hosting a Glenn Beck style webcast. And viewers will have to shell out for the pleasure of watching West spew hyperbole and bile at his perceived enemies of liberty.<\/p>\n

Both of these ex-legislators have made career choices that will lead them to ignominy. Kucinich will enjoy a bit of notoriety on his Fox perch for a while, but will lose respect due to his craven self-promotion and sycophancy to his new masters. For a preview of where he is headed he can look to other Fox News Democrats like Kirsten Powers, Pat Caddell, or Dick Morris. It’s not exactly a bright future.<\/p>\n

In West’s case he will simply fade from the scene and be forgotten as befits a one-term representative who failed to distinguished himself as anything other than a psychotic, mouth-foaming crackpot. His model for the future is Glenn Beck who also has a subscription webcast. But West doesn’t have nearly the following or media savvy of Beck. Even so, Beck’s star has fallen precipitously since he was booted off of television. He is now relegated to a distant studio in Texas from which he sends out his alarmist communiques. Just yesterday Beck declared that civil war is imminent and displayed a loony flow chart that made little sense.<\/p>\n

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Beck never satisfactorily explained how this path would traverse from “Compromise”<\/em> to the “President Complains”<\/em> to a “Tragic Event”<\/em> to “Blame”<\/em> to an “Executive Order”<\/em> to both “Violent Rebellion”<\/em> and “Peace.”<\/em> But that’s the beauty of insanity – no one expects it to make any sense. And in that respect West is a natural for this medium. His followers will surely find him and everyone else will forget that he ever existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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