There are doubtless many disgruntled and disappointed progressives in the Democratic party. But we must hope that there are few that would "kill the bill" at this point. I have seen a lot of this in the last 6 years and it was probably there before. I was not very politically aware prior to 2002 so I simply can't say if this terrorist mentality was endemic or even existent.
The terrorist is fixated on a righteousness that knows no compromise. But that is not the where all and be all of the disease. The more serious problem is that the terrorist believes that by making the current situation much, much worse, the chances of his righteous view being adopted are dramatically improved. The idea is to make things so bad that any sane person with an IQ over room temperature would magically see the righteousness seen by the terrorist.
Terrorism so defined is the stock and trade of the "far right" and the "far left". The half ass terrorist is the "We're not going to take it any more" crowd, that deludes itself into thinking it is in command of a majority. The majority, of course, could really give a rat's ass.
So which will it be, Kucinich? Are you gonna support the party and build on what we have accomplished? Or are you going to be a terrorist and help the problems fester? I really want you to be the last vote that pushes the ugly senate bill into law (to be quickly reconciled of course). If you are able to do that I will do every thing in my power to make single payer a reality through first reconciling the poisons out of the agreed on bill (now law). And then by insisting on strong public option add on which will pass the Senate and the House if it is a single issue bill. The rightarded KNOW that once there is a strong Public Option there will be a gradual voluntary move that will become as much of a single payer system as we need/want.
The Republicans actually have some of this stuff right. A gradual implementation is better than all at once. Of course for them, gradual means glacial and generational if that. Obama also had it right. The system we had could not be changed to single payer in one shot because the US Senate would never had allowed it. The House could have passed that bill and the Senate would have never acted on it but to vote it down. As it is, we had to bribe the AMA, the AARP, and big Pharma while offering "mandates" candy to the insurance lobby to get major health insurance regulations through. But we did it. And following reconciliation to remove some of the poisons and repair some of the funding, the remainder will be a lot less combative. We have set the target at 3 years. That is sufficient to get this done right.