Come To Washington Dennis Kucinich - The Water's Warm

Get out your tin foil beanies. Dennis Kucinich is coming to Washington. Washington doesn’t need any help with its image as a refuge for loonies, with Senator Patty Murray and Representative “Baghdad Jim” McDermott already leading our congressional delegation, but we might be getting it anyway.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich is looking for a new home. The Ohio district that he has represented since 1996 is likely to vanish as a result of redistricting and he sees warm waters in Washington.

 “If he were to choose to run here, these progressives from across the state would be in that district working for him every day, working hard,” says Judith Shattuck, chairwoman of the Washington State Progressive Caucus.”

Nine years ago, Dennis Kucinich endeared himself to Seattle’s tattooed, multiple body pierced, cannabis marinated left with his bill to outlaw space based mind control weapons. Without any apparent reference to current research or plans, Kucinich simply introduced a bill that would forbid the United States from researching, building or deploying such weapons.

A few years ago, Hollywood had fun with the US Army’s research into psychic warfare with the movie, “The Men Who Stared at Goats.” That line of research died a long time ago, except in the excitable imagination of Dennis Kucinich. He continued to believe in these sorts of comic book weapons long after all the grownups had set these childish things aside.

One can still find tributes to his courage and foresight on kook fringe websites.

And with his carpetbags packed, he continues to endear himself with Seattle’s Loonie Left. Right in the middle of Eastern Washington, a region few of his future constituents have ever heard of, there has been a recommendation to establish a new national park.

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is one of the most dramatic historical sites in the United States. Hanford is one of three places where the nuclear age was born. Hanford is the site of the world’s first nuclear reactor and the birthplace of the first man-made transuranic elements. This is where the plutonium for the Nagasaki nuclear bomb was made. Hanford remained the source for the plutonium that powered the United States’ nuclear arsenal for decades. That plutonium kept the peace and ultimately contributed to the collapse of history’s most loathsome tyranny, the Soviet Union.

Only recently have history buffs been permitted the privilege of tours. Today it is the largest environmental cleanup project in the United States and, someday, most of it will be restored to its natural condition. What to do with this vast tract is under deliberation and one proposal from the US Department of the Interior is to add Hanford to the National Park system, just as has been done many with other historical landmarks.

Enter Dennis Kucinich, who remains one of those who thinks that America should apologize for winning the Second World War. He wants to convert the site into a shrine proclaiming that:  “We must stand together with our Japanese brothers and sisters in determination that no such violence shall again be visited on any people anywhere.”

And Dennis Kucinich will fit right in with such Washington luminaries as Representative Baghdad Jim McDermott.

Dennis Kucinich recently traveled to Damascus, Syria where he stood shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad against the Syrian people who are rising up for freedom against one of the most barbaric regimes in the world and are getting slaughtered for it.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited reports from Democratic congressmen who had traveled to Syria and came back with their evaluation that the Syrian thug was, in fact, a “reformer.” The only three who I recall making that pilgrimage to Syria are Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and Dennis Kucinich (D-Space).

In Assad, Kucinich “found a strong desire to make a substantial change.”

Seattlistas will fondly remember Baghdad Jim McDermott’s 2003 trip to Iraq where he nuzzled dictator Saddam Hussein’s pant leg like a loving puppy. McDermott asked Saddam whether or not he sought weapons of mass destruction and duly reported that he did not.

Who better to ask than the man who had already used them in his war against Iran and against his own countrymen in Kurdistan?

And who can forget Patty Murray’s praise of Osama bin Laden’s social welfare programs in Afghanistan?

Kucinich would be a perfect fit.