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 [...]
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:Â 52% agree with Bush that most benefits should go to children in families earning less than 200% of the federal [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
President Bush delivered on his promise to veto the SCHIP bill sent to him by Congress. This, despite the sanctimonious hokum emanating from all manner of faux-progressive poseurs throughout the wackosphere, is good news. As I have pointed out again and again, the SCHIP bill that Congress produced was among the most egregious frauds ever perpetrated [...]
Politicians who represent themselves as the champions of the less fortunate are planning to place the financial burden of SCHIP expansion squarely on the backs of the poor. As the AP puts it: Congressional Democrats have chosen an unlikely source to pay for the bulk of their proposed $35 billion increase in children’s health coverage: [...]
The advocates SCHIP expansion have now abandoned all pretense to rationality and settled on a strategy based wholly on moral posturing and prevarication. The essence of this tawdry approach is captured in a national ad being run by the American Cancer Society, approvingly described at GoozNews as follows: Beneath a picture of a young child [...]
