The Democrat way: Holding war funding hostage to the S-CHIP expansion
Don Surber asks: “Will there be a VA bill by Veterans Day?”
44 Republican senators sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Plurality Leader Harry Reid urging them to pass stand-alone Defense and VA spending bills by Veterans Day. The letter included this zinger: “Our soldiers and veterans already have done so much for our county. The Democratic Congressional Leadership should not now cynically use them to shoulder a bloated ‘minibus’ funding bill up Pennsylvania Avenue and wrest billions in excessive spending.”
A minibus. I love it.
Sean Kevelighan, a spokesman for the White House budget office, told CQ: “They need to send the president a clean veterans’ funding bill that we have already agreed to by Veterans Day, so we can keep America’s promise to those who have defended our freedom and are recovering from injury.”
Will they? Nope. The Democrat way is to “support the troops” by holding war and military funding hostage to the massive S-CHIP entitlement expansion plan. Craven crapweasels that they are, the Dems are on the trail pounding their “It’s the war or the kids!” propaganda. Assorted Babble received a survey from Florida Dem. Robert Wexler that lays out the strategy:
Just this week the President announced plans to ask Congress for an additional $46 billion for the war in Iraq, a war that has already cost Americans almost a half a trillion dollars. Every single day in Iraq we spend $330 million. That means that we could provide 10 million low-income children across the country, with health insurance for a year, with less than the cost of 40 days in Iraq.
I’m writing you today to ask you what your priorities would be in Congress. Please take the time to fill out the survey on the right so that I can better represent you in Congress.
The four “choices:”
1. Congress should provide health care funding for 10 million kids instead of the war in Iraq.
2. Congress should not provide funding for the health care bill, and continue funding the Iraq war.
3. Congress should fund both the children’s health care plan and the war in Iraq.
4. Congress should not fund the children’s health care bill or the war in Iraq.
Rush Limbaugh caught Nancy Pelosi’s singing the same tune:
PELOSI: The annual cost of assuring ten million children in America is 40 days spent in Iraq. Forty days in Iraq, ten million children insured in America in one year. So we certainly can afford to do this.
RUSH: It’s not about affording it, Ms. Pelosi, and you know this — and, of course, ten days or 40 days in Iraq? How about all the redundant social programs that have way too much money being spent on them with way too much waste and fraud? Why don’t you go get the money from there? We’re talking about US national security you want to endanger! We’re on the threshold of victory, and she wants to snatch it. She wants to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory — and this old line? She used this line two or three weeks ago. This is not inspiring her side. It’s not inspiring the American people, this kind of shock, ultra-left-wing liberalism. The S-CHIP program, by the way, if you look at all the polls on it, the message got out. The Drive-By Media monopoly is over. Once the American people found out that the S-CHIP program she’s talking about is not just poor children. It’s “children” up to the age of 25. It’s families with three or four times the poverty level of income! That’s not what the American people want a health program “for poor kids” to be about. This is nothing more than — what’s the old phrase? — the camel getting its nose under the tent? If somebody said today that if they got the S-CHIP program and they got Medicare and Medicaid on the other end, then they’ve got the middle class surrounded, and all that’s left to get national socialized medicine is to find your way into the middle class.Well, this was a stealth way of doing it. Now, the real question is this: Do the Democrats really want this program to pass? Do they really want the override to pass? See, I don’t think — and the dirty little secret is, folks, the Democrats don’t care about “the children.” “The children” are merely the vehicle in which they drive in order to get this thing down the road to accomplish what they want to accomplish. What they want to accomplish is to embarrass the president and to be able to cast Republicans as against the children, particularly against the poor children because that’s their cliché, and it’s the cliché that’s been in their playbook for 40 years. Republicans hate the poor. Republicans hate minorities. Republicans hate this. Republicans only love the rich. Those things don’t fly anymore. The class-envy business is something that hadn’t really been that successful for them for quite a while. Yet it’s the only thing they know how to play, the only card they know how to play. Once the American people found out about it, the thing was up. But what they really want, they don’t want this to pass. They’re not trying to get this done for the kids. They’re trying to get this done for themselves. They want this as an election issue for all of next year.
NPR dutifully files a sky-is-falling piece in advance of the third floor fight on S-CHIP.
Hold on tight. The Dems will be flinging their kiddie human shields around left and right. Er, left and left. The battle doesn’t end.
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I am delighted the democrats are doing this. Let them. They will lose.
If the republicans act like spineless jellyfish, we deserve to lose.
If we verbally destroy them in the media on this one, the public will again side against the democrats, as they have virtually every single time they have tried a stunt like this in the last 12 months.
Bring it on, Pelosiraptor.
Respectfully,
eric
http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
Oh, the cretinous mass we call democrats, what will they be up to next?
What’s that Congressional approval rating again?
I like this excerpt from the Republican letter to Pelosi and Reid:
My hope is that the Dems keep up their current trends and make people realize the folly of voting them into office and giving them majority control.
Strange but I heard nothing about this in the MSM so far. Okay, maybe not that strange.
Oh! But it is a political victory because they are “keeping the issue alive”.
Where’s Volpe to give us his tired “I told you so” about this.
Yawn.
A Dhimmicratic victory on health care would be to pass something that demonstrates their ability to cooperate with the President.
But wait. The Dhimmicrats lost on Shamnesty and the Dream Act, in cooperation with the President.
SMACKONTHEBACKOFMYOWNHEAD!
Could it be that they are just losers through and through?
i wish there was a way we could hold their pensions and salaries hostage for this type of BS.
Hello Bear!
And you wonder what the Jihadis are thinking at a time like this
OT ; bear, going to the game this saturday?
but don’t say that they don’t support the troops!!!!
/sarcasm
OT: feebie- gnaw. have the Barracudas playing in the morning and meetings with architects in the afternoon- big renovation here at Sagehill getting underway. are you?
To borrow from Michelle,
They are just winning impaired.
The most ethical congress ever…..
I laughed the first time I heard that and I still do.
I can hear their strategy:
Let’s hold wounded veterans healthcare hostage
Let’s hold the American military hostage
Let’s waste time on a bill that the president has already vetoed once
…that will make America proud of us.
OT2: feebie, does aj have your email addie? he has mine.
aj- you are a true wordsmith.
ah, bear im in the room…. lol
like I said I borrowed from Michelle..
shes goooooood…
Every time I see Pelosi Galore on tv I am driven to a low-grade rage.
Image: Bear 1909 rasslin the flat screen.
aj- u sure is.
how was the spaghetti?
yummyyyyyyyyyy.
I’m saving the leftovers for the troops the way the fundings going their going to need it.
Foood AGAIN!
Yes, Aj has my addy, I’m on friends.
yes, we scored tickets “the man” and I (for AJ’s benefit, not using the other word) Tailgating and then the game. this should be interesting.
OK, not just pigs in bezerkley but now Barracudas too….okey dokey!
I think there camel nose strategy will ultimately fail.
My own personal poll taken on Monday at a local health care facility in Oakland involving 2 surgeons, 3 anaesthesiologists, 15 nurses (different levels and skill sets), 6 clerical workers, and 5 janitors
revealed UNANIMOUS opposition to universal health care.
I think some polling data of that huge occupational cohort might enlighten the Dhimmicrats as to their prospects of using the “poor” and the “children” as the impetus for ramming this home in the next 2 years.
Must do some hunting on this.
PS. I meant the real types of pigs you spoke of previously…not slang for Law Enforcement….just in case.
someone mention bacon? hahahhaahah
whos cal playin?
decisions decisions, which c-span to listen to today.
uh oh, the tapper is speaking. watch your back… lmao
A little context on the poll- my wife had surgery on Monday and we were in the place for the better part of the day.
Somehow we had the whole floor interested in what was happening in our recovery room so we just decided to ask.
The care is first rate. Co-pay: 30 bucks. This was minor surgery that required a general anaesthetic. Same day release. We scheduled it with 4 days notice.
I just can’t see a government run anything working as smoothly as this.
He’s talking wildfires,
newsflash, tomorrow the Santa ana winds are going to be back. just heard that on the radio and the govenator has said “we are ready”… hope so.
Them piggies live up over the hills on the way to Orinda. Sooooieeee!
Toe Tappa Lawrence of Bathroomia. He grosses me out.
So does Matt Lauer.
only the elevators bear.
StrudelNegger (a Savageism) is crossing his musclebound toes and fingahz.
How does one control the pyros, the thieves, AND the wind?
Kahleefornia picks up the tab….how much will the next bond be for?
OT: Halloween haul was half a pillow case. Levon had hershey bars for breakfast. Mom wasn’t up yet. Bear just turned a blind eye. Hey, yer only young once.
OT: isn’t Cal playin SC tomorrow feebz?
the game that might have been?
Then there is the “Little Bighorn” game coming up this month- SC/ND
eeech.
Back On Top-ic: The hospital was clean, everything worked, everybody had command of the english language, and the coffee was good.
Image: Bear1909 swargling java like it’s goin outta style while “the woman” slept.
Such a contrast.
ok, and barracuta?
i think i know where you are talking about. lived in moraga for several years when i was in college.
Universal healthcare….if the gov has problems getting bills passed for our troops, balancing budgets and too busy trying to silence RUSH …imagine what they would do to our healthcare.
We’d all be dead before we could get anything even done.
*Feebs imagining Bears wife recovering from surgery and bear givin the impropmtu poll to 31 hostpital employees. I suprise she didn’t roll out of there on her own…(teasing) .
PS.hope she is feeling better
ot-
email to ya bearmush.
Bear - I believe you are correct, sir. I’ve never been much of a college football fan…but I must say, professional sports these days is becoming less and less of a pleasure to watch.
Everyone dancing around like they just won the superbowl when they tackled someone and their down by 21. Ridiculous. Sometimes I wish a GB Packer from the 50’s would just come out of no where and cream um’! Those were the real men who played football.
Now all we have is a bunch of whiney, spoiled cry babys….!
I am looking forward to the game, was my not so articulate point!
lmao - “Dad is GREAT! Give us the chocolate CAKE!”
How cool would that be?!!!
OT-
We suck this year feebie, so you guys have a chance..
OT: 1)I heard that feebz! If her belly button wasn’t so sore she mighta done just that.
Thanks! Kelly’s rockin the casbah as we speak. Went treatin last nite too.
Berkeley Barracudas- under 10 soccer team. My youngest, Levon, is the defense for them. Undefeated. Been playing together since they were 5. Very very cool little group of dudes and their girl Goalie (but*kicker) Sky.
Universal healthcare is a menace to society.
*Feebs rubbing her hands together like Mr. Meagi in Karati Kid….
Soooo, excited. I hope DA BEARZ win!!!
Well said!
love soccer, played for 5 years. super fun to watch too.
This universal healthcare…would our wonderful congressmen/women and senators, speaker, etc. be subject to the same healthcare system…or would they get their own.
Just like how they don’t have to pay in to SS pot…but they get to spend it.
*feebs grumbling like a p*ssed off ol’ lady.
Seriously, they are a bunch of useless crooks these people. Our best intetest is the LAST thing on their minds.
side bet feebie?
Levon rolled out of here this morning with a pocket full of SMARTEES.
Image: Bear1909 eyeing the candy stash as Boy walks down the stairs to get in the car.
“It’s not just for breakfast ennymore”
ok…what’s the spread!?
Image: Bear1909 gettin an extry rocker and blanket for the groanin feebz.
Set a spell, take yer shoes off. :LOL:
*feebs laughing to herself…she has no idea what “spread” means…she just hears it from people who place bets….Lol.
straight up in my book…. spread goes on crackers.
lieberman on the floor, he’s the man.
Image: Bear1909 ponderin aj’s closer proximity to Vegas than da feebz’.
aj’s polishing his gaming license.
Imagine Senator Biden having a choice between universal colonoscopies and private colonoscopies.
Gimme whatever odds you want to. Private wins hands down.
ok…I am supose to say something now like “too rich for my blood” or something like that…
AJ, I really don’t bet well…what are the rules????? Do we do $5.00 gift certificates to ____________ for the winner or what!?
On November 1st, 2007 at 4:24 pm, ajmontana said:
lieberman on the floor, he’s the man.
I like him, he wouldn’t make a great prez, but a good man and a good senator…definately.
cookies.
that’s what granny used to say to Jethro.
LMAO
gift certificates????
What’s the Lieb talkin about aj?
I’d go to the Mukasey thread but theres trolls there and they just tick me off.
can I have a hall pass for here? lol
jethro? now im gettin’ reallrey confused!
Cookies, awww crickey aj.
Do realize the immunity challanges feebz has to deal with on a daily basis around her office…peoples left over halloween treats. the bstrds!
Mukasey bear. and speaking very well.
lol bear…
or…we could do a tupperware party AJ!
ok feebs we can just do bragging rights.
full tupperware?
deal!
yeh, i’m just cool as a cucumber…let me tell you sar/off.
Feebz-
Granny used to tell Jethro that on Beverly Hillbillies….an old old TV show.
Thanks aj. I am goin over to the Mukasey thread and have a seat in the Peanut gallery. I love peanuts. Don’t you?
bye…back to work for me.
beware of the trolls….
i lobbed a grenade and left. cRusty, huggybear, lgm, omg. they don’t get it.
wait till you read rustbuckets take on the phelps cult scumbags. geez,
Get the VETO pen gased up.
Tranq dart the Dhimmicrat leadership while yer at it
S-Chip passes again……geez la flippin weez.
The only ones undermining anything are the Dems, earth to Harry and Company…the children are covered.
AJ,
You are forgetting the 25 year old un-documented children.
lol, opps my bad.
I guess we could just give them tb shots and send em back home.
Think about it. Even the dimocraps plan leave 2 million without insurance. They keep talking about the 12 million un-documented “Americans” and the 10 million “children” they want to provide coverage for.
/sarc off
Sure, after we give them…
*cue 12 days of Christmas tune
3 drivers licenses
2 SS cards
and a credit card in anothers name.
The Dems are like a really really really bad date.
“A minibus. I love it.”
Microbus would have been more hippie-apt.
The kinda date where the pit was left in?
That works…
“Raiders” Dates.
The sad things about all of this demegauging (sp?) that the Dems are doing over SCHIP is that they really don’t care about “the children”. They don’t care about the troops or our veterans either. The only thing they care about is obtaining and maintaining power, and humiliating the Republicans and GWB.
JimC,
I do not think they are humiliating anybody else but themselves. Did you see the donk
debatewhinefest?Raiders dates…lol
Nice one, aj. My dates always had Halos that were level at pick up time and crooked by the time the night was through.
yeehaw.
I wanted to learn about this Schip thing & some how I ended up in a chat room…
OT-
sorry bear shoulda clarified, I meant in post #86 bad dates like the ones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
I have had the pleasure of an Oakland Raider fan date though…
not the scary kind.
#90
You come to the ballgame in the bottom of the ninth and want to learn about baseball too?
#90:
whatcha lookin down here for? the journalism is at the top!
I just shot ya e mail bear, the ending is awesome!
Sent to you also Michelle if your out there… I think you guys will like.
I was there in the gallery yesterday, and it was kinda ugly.
Isn’t it great that 3 Dem presidential candidates, Clinton, Obama, and Dodd cared so much about the children that they forgot to show up and vote?
You are a brave soul, I would have lost my lunch, it was bad enough on TV.
I have worked Military budget issues for 16 years now. This is the worst year I have ever seen. Some idiot up at the Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) level decided to only grant funding authority at 36% of the funding required to establish fiscal year 2008 (FY08) requirements during the Continuing Resolution Authority (CRA) allowing us to operate at frugal levels. Many service contracts we are forced to fund (bogus A76 studies used to outsource GIs and contract basic services that are supposedly cheaper than having a GI do the same job, which in my experience is total BS) and require a substantial amount of our budget in the 1st Quarter of FY08. Before going on my post FY07 close-out leave/vacation I was not able to establish many of the FY08 funding documents required to provide basic services to the Wing in my squadron. When I return to duty on Monday I will get to face this mess again and hopefully the idiot at OSD causing this problem has been fired (don’t hold your breath). With the help of the idiot at OSD and the useless members of the Democratic lead Congress we may be facing another Government shutdown again. I will never forget having to work a START treaty inspection the last time funding it with my own funds and those of my fellow American escorts because of the last Government shutdown. We were paid back, but a MSgt should not have to use the funds to support his family to comply with Article VI Section 2 of the US Constitution. I would love to express my stress level before going on leave to each useful idiot on the left side of the aisle in Congress but fear I would wear out after kicking the crap out of about 8 or 10. I have just about had it with these idiots and hope they get that 1% approval rating they are striving for.
Sorry about the rant, but had to get it off my chest.
To be honest, ajmontana, I didn’t mean to stay most of the afternoon, just watch for an hour or two and bolt to head back to Raleigh, but, it was very interesting to watch all that was going on, and 2. my feet were killing me from walking around DC for 3 days