Saturday September 22, 2007, 11:29 am
You've GOT THE POWER ...

VOTE every single REPUBLICON out of the Congre$$ and the White Hou$e NOW!!!

Saturday September 22, 2007, 11:30 am
"But Bush has promised a veto, saying the measure is too costly ($5 billion /year)..."

a trillion dollars for Bu$h!t's "illegal war and occupation of Iraq" ... but no money for education and health car ein the U$A ...

vote them out, vote eveyr RepubliCON out of Congre$$ and the White Hou$e!

Saturday September 22, 2007, 9:20 pm
Picking a fight over kids' health

Apparently, the White House is a little concerned about the political fallout of Bush's opposition to a bipartisan expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP). The president called a press conference this week, apparently for no other reason than to denounce Congress' work on making healthcare more accessible to millions of uninsured kids.

Today, Bush emphasized what he describes as a "philosophical" opposition to the ipartisan legislation -- the White House concedes this is about ideology, not results -- in his radio address, which ironically accused lawmakers of putting S-CHIP in jeopardy.

The claim-to-lie ratio was pretty close to 1:1. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities did some helpful fact-checking.

Sunday September 23, 2007, 7:55 am
noted...and thoroughly disgusted...HE didn't have to worry about health care, now did he....PIG...thanks for posting

Sunday September 23, 2007, 9:46 am

Meanwhile, Trillions spent EVERY YEAR to lie, invade and murder children.

Sunday September 23, 2007, 11:42 am
Black hearted Bush ~ we all know he cares nothing for children, nor anyone else's life ~ 'cept maybe himself and his buddies - (you know the ones - 'the haves and the have mores'. There will be no fairness until, and when, he is no longer in charge of his vicious attacks upon the American people, and the world. Will he ever leave? He's supposed to, of course, but we all know there are intensive efforts to keep this rotten dung beetle in office. This Cannot and Won't happen! If it means the American people taking to the streets, so be it. We will be rid of this treasonous administrtation at any and all costs. if we no longer have our Constitution, nor our freedoms, we must fight to restore them. I believe that if if comes to this, the American people will most definitely rise to the occasion. We've had 'More' than enough alreadyl

Sunday September 23, 2007, 12:41 pm
Sounds like BU-SH.

Sunday September 23, 2007, 3:07 pm
Bush is ANTI-American and what every GOOD American stands for...Impeach him or this is what we have to put up with until he goes OUT -that is too long from now and too much more damage from his poison pen. Noted.

Sunday September 23, 2007, 4:58 pm
Noted

Sunday September 23, 2007, 5:15 pm
How dare he take our tax dollars to fund wars and not our children's health!!! I'm so sick of it( crying)

Sunday September 23, 2007, 5:20 pm
Now their wiping-out the lives of our CHILDREN while WASTING out tax dollars elsewhere. Sick!!


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Bush vows to veto kids' health bill
President, Democrats clash over proposed legislation for poor children
The Associated Press
Updated: 11:16 a.m. MT Sept 22, 2007
WASHINGTON - President Bush again called Democrats "irresponsible" on Saturday for pushing an expansion he opposes to a children's health insurance program.

"Democrats in Congress have decided to pass a bill they know will be vetoed," Bush said of the measure that draws significant bipartisan support, repeating in his weekly radio address an accusation he made earlier in the week. "Members of Congress are risking health coverage for poor children purely to make a political point."

In the Democrat's response, also broadcast Saturday, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell turned the tables on the president, saying that if Bush doesn't sign the bill, 15 states will have no funding left for the program by the end of the month.

At issue is the Children's Health Insurance Program, a state-federal program that subsidizes health coverage for low-income people, mostly children, in families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford private coverage. It expires Sept. 30.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers announced a proposal Friday that would add $35 billion over five years to the program, adding 4 million people to the 6.6 million already participating. It would be financed by raising the federal cigarette tax by 61 cents to $1 per pack.

The idea is overwhelmingly supported by Congress' majority Democrats, who scheduled it for a vote Tuesday in the House. It has substantial Republican support as well.

‘The health of our children is far too important’
But Bush has promised a veto, saying the measure is too costly, unacceptably raises taxes, extends government-covered insurance to children in families who can afford private coverage, and smacks of a move toward completely federalized health care. He has asked Congress to pass a simple extension of the current program while debate continues, saying it's children who will suffer if they do not.

"Our goal should be to move children who have no health insurance to private coverage — not to move children who already have private health insurance to government coverage," Bush said.


The bill's backers have vigorously rejected Bush's claim it would steer public money to families that can readily afford health insurance, saying their goal is to cover more of the millions of uninsured children. The bill would provide financial incentives for states to cover their lowest-income children first, they said.

Many governors want the flexibility to expand eligibility for the program. So the proposal would overturn recent guidelines from the administration making it difficult for states to steer CHIP funds to families with incomes exceeding 250 percent of the official poverty level.

Rendell said thousands of children will lose health care coverage if Bush doesn't sign the bill.

"The administration has tried to turn this into a partisan issue and has threatened to veto. The health of our children is far too important for partisan politics as usual," he said. "If the administration is serious about solving our health care crisis, it should be expanding, not cutting back, this program which has made private health insurance affordable for millions of children."

Monday September 24, 2007, 8:18 am

What do Plantation Owners do with sick slaves ?

Monday September 24, 2007, 9:04 am
please fo,low blue buntings advice and vote every repiblican out of office
we must all be active in making certain we push for the people of our country to vote in the largest turnout in the history of the united states ever

Monday September 24, 2007, 11:03 am
Bush is a smirking hypocrit who would finance killing way ahead of saving our children. If I were Barbara I'd be quaking in my boots about this devil I had spawned. If he vetoes this bill as he says he will and if Congress does not immediately and very publicly overide the veto then I hope all hell breaks loose--this is not about Republicans besting Democrats--although that is what he has made it about. My fantasy is that the voting machines will again be tampered with and register twice as many Democrat votes at least than Republican. Time to beat them at their own shenanigans on this one.

Go ahead, Mr. President, spit in the eye of Congress and the American people on this. You will not harm our children...you will not devalue or demean them...you will not turn them into pawns and you will absolutely not get away with trading their welfare for your damn illegitimate war. I promise you you will need to need to hightail it to the Bunker with your friend Bin Laden. I am spitting mad over this. It makes me sick...sick, I tell you...to know that evil incarnate is at the helm of government here. May God have mercy on you; it is more than I would be able to grant you...and that I can say and mean those words is a personal loss of great importance to who I was just 3 months ago. You are a monster.

Monday October 1, 2007, 12:41 pm
Kids Drag Wagons in Healthcare Protest

USA TODAY's David Jackson reports that President Bush's critics fired more shots this morning at Bush's plans to veto an expansion of a health insurance program for children.

SEIU, the public employees union, sponsored a rally in which children dragged little red wagons to the White House filled with petitions urging Bush to sign the legislation. (Jackson says the event had more reporters than children.)

During a rally at McPherson Square, three blocks from the White House, about 15 children chanted: "care for kids, care for kids."

On Saturday, a 12-year-old delivered the Democrats' response to Bush's radio address.

Bush press secretary Dana Perino said Bush will veto the bill because it expands the program beyond poor children and is a step toward a national, government-run health care program.

"This is a policy difference," Perino said.

Update at 10:43 a.m. ET: Jackson reports that the wagons are Radio Flyers. He says the protesters' chants include "Health care, not warfare!," and "Don't Veto Kids' Health Care!"


Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., tells the crowd that members of Congress and the president get free health care, and they should help poor children get doctors. "This is a moral issue," Kennedy says. "It's a fairness issue."