This bill passed with two extra votes, one by a Republican and you want us to believe that both Kucinich and Massa knew it was a lock? Unless they were the last two people to vote that is total bullshit. Or do you believe they had some sort of green-light from leadership to cast a protest vote?

Dennis Kucinich has always been a joke since his days as Boy Mayor of Cleveland This from Time in 1978

At 31, Cleveland's Dennis Kucinich is the youngest mayor of any big American city. Aggressive, bright and ambitious, he seemed likely to make good on his campaign promise to shake up city hall and provide more efficient government when he took office last November. Since then, Kucinich has indeed shaken up Cleveland. But, for the most part, the results have bordered on the disastrous. Last week, after he fired popular Police Chief Richard Hongisto, citizen groups began a recall movement that may send Kucinich into early retirement.
Despite his youth and choirboy looks, the 5-ft. 6-in. Kucinich (pronounced Koosin-itch) is a savvy veteran of Cleveland's bruising ward politics. The son of a truck driver, he grew up on the city's ethnic, working-class West Side (his father is Croatian, his mother Irish). At 23, he won a seat on the city council and six years later was elected clerk of courts, the city's second highest elective office. A maverick Democrat with a strong anti-Establishment bias, he has built his power base among poor and working-class voters.

Kucinich is a little too old to be called 'Boy Congressman'. But he still matches his old profile of 'Dennis the Menace'

That's a stunningly condescending way for you to make a point that is a matter of opinion, not factual.

Those of us who have worked in the legislative process understand "catch-and-release" when you let just enough of your more vulnerable members vote no so that you can pass it.  The Senate understands this and a narrow margin of victory will not weaken the bill over there.

That is absolute crap.  Clyburn knew the whip before he released democrats like Kucinich.  The whip is the number to be used in negotiations, not the actual vote numbers.

The only strategy ploy that matters once it goes to conference is whether or not the House will pass the bill that comes out of conference. Everything else is just cannon fodder for us to talk about.

While 'ignorant' is just okay?

I think someone needs to take a big draft of self-awareness, What part of "Don't call me an asshole, fuck-wit!" are you missing here?