Let me make this clear, Dennis Kucinich annoys the Hell out of me. He likes to grandstand and make all these speeches about helping people. But when he actually has a chance to vote on something we can really accomplish, he always backs off because it doesn’t fit with own little dream world.

Last night was no exception. Here’s his statement, just in case you didn’t already know how it would read.

"We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of the problem. When health insurance companies deny care or raise premiums, co-pays and deductibles they are simply trying to make a profit. That is our system."

"Clearly, the insurance companies are the problem, not the solution. They