Bush vetoes massive S-CHIP bill again; Dems plan on milking the issue again
The Associated Press assigns BDS-infected reporter Jennifer Loven to cover the president’s second veto of the massive S-CHIP entitlement expansion tonight, and she piles on the bias thick–starting with the first paragraph:
President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program.
Popular? When put to a popular vote, liberal Oregon voters resoundingly rejected the same cigarette tax-funded scheme for an expanded S-CHIP program.
It was Bush’s seventh veto in seven years — all but one coming since Democrats took control of Congress in January. Wednesday was the deadline for Bush to act or let the bill become law. The president also vetoed an earlier, similar bill expanding the health insurance program.
Bush vetoed the bill in private.
In a statement notifying Congress of his decision, Bush said the bill was unacceptable because — like the first one — it allows adults into the program, would cover people in families with incomes above the U.S. median and raises taxes.
“This bill does not put poor children first, and it moves our country’s health care system in the wrong direction,” Bush’s statement said. “Ultimately, our nation’s 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 urged Congress to extend the program at its current funding level before lawmakers leave Washington for their holiday break.
In fact, congressional leaders had already said earlier Wednesday that they now will try only to extend the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, well into 2008 in basically its current form. Their comments signaled that they have given up efforts to substantially expand the program.
The Republican House leaders e-mailed the following this evening:
House GOP Leaders: Latest SCHIP Sham Vote Proves This Congress is About Politics, Not “The Children”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Republican Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) issued the following statement on the Majority’s vote to delay until January 23, 2008 a vote attempting to override President Bush’s veto of a measure to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to cover adults, illegal immigrants, and families that already have private health insurance:
“The Majority consistently tells us that this Congress is focused on ‘the children.’ But their decision to delay this veto override vote is just more proof that what this Congress really is focused on is politics. By delaying the vote to override the President’s veto of their flawed bill to expand SCHIP to cover adults, illegal immigrants, and those who already have private health insurance, the Majority has proven once again that they have no intention of renewing this program in a responsible, bipartisan way. That the Majority has turned this important issue into a cynical, political football is beyond disappointing, but after a year marked by non-stop partisan politics on Capitol Hill, it’s not at all surprising.”
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Insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Milking the issue? They are milk-boarding the public–torture I say, torture! Please stop! Oh I forgot Nancy approves of the process.
I suppose these Dems when children never got scolded. Always allowed to kick and scream until they got their way. My how maturity ruins those things. The Congress needs pacifiers to make it to the end of the year.
Do the aborted babies get coverage under the S CHIP program? They are the ones that really need health insurance.
Is there no end to this congress’s stupidity and partisanship?
S Chip, cow chip, what ever…
Next time they should couple it with an amnesty bill, maybe they can get it signed then.
What part of NO did they not get?
Pounding sand. You’d think that would be getting real old by now.
They probably watch movies, over and over and over again, expecting a different
ending. My friend (whom I had always thought was pretty intelligent except for
voting dem) asked me back when to go see Titanic with her. When I said, no, she
wanted to know why. I said I already knew how it ended and I SWEAR, she wanted to
know how I knew the ending. Now, it turned out to be a brain spasm but that’s what
these dems remind of.
the damn headline..
“Bush vetoes kids health insurance bill”
was perhaps the kindest part.
BIT&H.
God I am soooo tired of these liberal left wing hacks.
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It is popular with the illegals, who probably voted on it in Oregon, somehow.
TX Rose #8, I heard it had a new ending. This ending shows evil President Bush using a secret global warming laser to slice off that berg and he personally got in a row boat and pulled the berg into the Titanic. One more, the scene closed out with an infant trying to climb into his boat and he had an evil laugh when he shoved the kid under.
I didn’t see it, but that’s what I heard.
Bush is a big meanie because he believes in fiscal responsibility. It only took him almost 7 years in office to get that way, but he finally is. Wish he would do something about securing our borders too.
Actually the Jennifer Loven isn’t as bad as some of the others I’ve seen from her. At least she accurately describes what the opposition is. Of course the headline and first couple of paragraphs are all most people will read.
er..Jennifer Loven article, that is
The pandering class gets a foot to their …rear. Ha!
Check out the NYT version. Bush Vetoes Children’s Health Bill
Hey Michelle, It’s good that you covered this because it shows the contempt that the Democrats have for the American people. But I watched the debate on the House floor about the AMT patch.
They could not help but call ‘keeping taxes from being increased’ as a ‘tax cut’. It was really unbelievable. They all said that we have to ‘pay for it somehow’ even though it is not money that is in the budget.
There were some good points about how the Bush budget handled these ‘future funds’ but that had nothing to do with the debate that they had. I would appreciate this PAYGO issue if they also considered CUTTING PROGRAMS as a means to pay for these things. As it stands, of course, they only focus on raising taxes.
The debate was classic, and the Republicans would have won hands down except for the fact that they have not been fiscally responsible much themselves. But it does show that the Democrats think that all Americans’ money is their money.
The Senate passed an AMT program that the President would sign. But when the House added this tax increase, it is doomed to fail in the Senate, and would be VETO’d if it passed the Senate.
The Democrats really just have contempt for the American people. The SCHIP program showed it and so does everything that this Democratically controlled congress brings to the floor.
One final thing (sorry for the length) about Pelosi. She gave press conferences all evening too. Every time she brought up the cost of something, she compared it to the War spending. I wish someone would tell her that one thing has nothing to do with the other, but she thinks it is good politics. If she has problems with how much the Iraq War costs, she can vote against funding. If she doesn’t vote against funding, she can’t use it as a comparison for other irresponsible bills.
Sorry for hijacking this thread. Thanks for your time. Carry on.
The democrats are morally bankrupt and have been since 1964.
Michelle, I keep looking at that child on the banner and wondered if you could put some jerky in the pic? Like the little kid that was dropped on it’s head and was helping his insane mother protest?
Illegal re-distribution of wealth BAAAAAAAD! Simple enough. Just a reminder, the federal government is not a business and has no “surplus”. It only has money that it has illegally obtained by the people for purposes other than that which it is allowed under the Constitution.
Darn those silly laws and facts anyhow. We need to feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeel good about what we are doing!
And their rationale for this ridiculousness is what exactly?