In an apparent attempt to drive their job approval ratings below the historic nadir to which they have already sunk, Nancy Pelosi and her congressional accomplices produced another SCHIP boondoggle yesterday.
In a typical piece of procedural skulduggery, the House “leadership” held the vote while many of the bill’s opponents were out of town. But that didn’t work. […]
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Posted 26 October 2007
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Amy Ridenour has posted an absolutely hilarious video that brilliantly captures the essential stupidity of financing SCHIP with a cigarette tax. Do not watch this while drinking coffee, beer or any other liquid you don’t want to spit on your monitor.
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Posted 23 October 2007
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One of the many disreputable tactics used by the advocates of SCHIP expansion has been to accuse their opponents of waging “a war on children.” But Mark Steyn points out that genuine concern for ”the children” would manifest itself as follows:
Try not to make the same mistake as most of the rest of the Western world and avoid bequeathing the next generation a system of […]
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Posted 22 October 2007
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The House of Representatives has failed to override Bush’s veto of the fraudulent SCHIP bill. AP reports that the pro-override forces fell more than a dozen votes short:
The 273-156 roll call was 13 votes short of the two-thirds that majority supporters needed to enact the bill into law over Bush’s objections.
Now, maybe Nancy Pelosi and her […]
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Posted 18 October 2007
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Despite attempts by the establishment media to convince us that the public is solidly behind Congress in the SCHIP debate, a new Gallup poll shows this to be nonsense. USA Today puts it as follows:
52% agree with Bush that most benefits should go to children in families earning less than 200% of the federal poverty […]
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Posted 17 October 2007
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As the father of two daughters, I have been watching the antics on Capitol Hill with increasing disgust. The only people more contemptible than the politicians who exploit kids like Graeme Frost and Bethany Wilkerson are the parents who allow it.
WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!??
I would no more allow my kids to be used this […]
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Posted 17 October 2007
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My tinfoil hat must have a leak. This angle had never occurred to me until I read Tim Carney’s piece in the Examiner:
The biggest lobbyists in the [health care] industry all support the Democratic bill. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the trade association for HMOs, supports the bill, as do its biggest members, such as […]
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Posted 11 October 2007
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It appears that the advocates of SCHIP expansion did a poor job of choosing their poster family. The Frosts got a profile in the Baltimore Sun and one of their children, Graeme, was trundled up to Congress to pull on America’s heart strings. But it It turns out that these folks are not what most people would call “needy”:
Two of […]
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Posted 08 October 2007
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That’s what you have to believe if you take the Democrats and the establishment media seriously. And what has this fiend-in-human-shape done to deserve the enmity of all right-thinking people? He has (gasp) vetoed the SCHIP bill sent to him by Congress.
Why, you ask, would he do such a thing? Doesn’t he care about the […]
House Democrats claim that their primary motivation in the SCHIP controversy is the health of “the kids.” If this were true, they would have allowed today’s veto override vote to go forward and then sought some accommodation with the President.
Instead, they introduced a motion to postpone the vote so they could use the next two […]
