Comments on: Bush’s SCHIP Veto Will Leave Many Children Behind

By: The Body Politik

The Body Politik — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:19:18 +0000

[…] Bush may not have read the legislation he vetoed. As The Body Politik has pointed out, “the overwhelming majority of children who would gain health coverage… are precisely the […]

By: The Body Politik

The Body Politik — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:51:13 +0000

[…] Indeed, the “press release” and their previous smear campaign betrays the callous zeal with which House Republicans and some Senate Republicans have sought to prevent the needed expansion of SCHIP. Indeed, while an astounding 91% of Americans want “Congress to help states cover more uninsured children”, a “vast majority [of Americans] also supported covering uninsured parents in low-income working families,” and “more than 600,000 children joined the ranks of the uninsured last year,” House Republicans are more concerned with scoring cheap brownie points with an out-of-touch Bush administration. […]

By: Matthew Reiman

Matthew Reiman — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:12:10 +0000

So I guess if President Bush had signed the bill you could have posted that he broke his 2004 campaign promise never to raise taxes. Nice. It is veto threats like this that cut the budget deficit in half during the last two years of Republican congressional control. Now, with Pelosi as speaker he actualy has to veto such spending. Tough, but responsible. We have a government that doles out a trillion dollars every year in social spending. Who else can say that? Nobody.