The Democrats play their S-CHIP again
The do-nothing Democrats in the House will engage in more gesture politics tomorrow as they bring up the massive S-CHIP expansion again for a veto override. It’s not going to pass and the current program has already been funded, but they’ll take any opportunity they can to demagogue the issue. Pointless:
In a sharp reminder of the ideological divide between the two parties, the House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on overriding the president’s second veto of the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program – a sore point lingering from last year. The override is expected to again fall short, particularly since Congress has already extended funding for the program. But that issue could resurface before November.
Prepare the next set of kiddie human shields…
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Wow, the more democrats try to fund a program that’s already been funded, the more I think they really care about me. Why are republicans sooooooo mean?
How does a do-nothing Congress act as if was sinificant?
Lazy
Administrators
Making
Excuses
Doh! errr. I meant significant.
Now is not a good time to be spending money. Don’t you think?
BlameAmericaLast,
We are cashcows; never-ending sources of cold, hard cash. I plan on working overtime to help offset the costs of paying for S-CHIP. So much for buying that new bedroom set. oH my back, my aching back.
How many freaking times to these idiots leading “the most ethical Congress ever” have to get their butts kicked before the figure out the same methods always get the same results. In their case it has been failure. I really am sick of them trying to sneak this and several other Trojan horses by us. The new media is outing their dirty backroom tricks and many Americans have woken up and are paying attention. By the way if any member of Congress surfs this site we are not impressed.
Gee, if people would just listen to the demoncrats and have their babies aborted, there would be no need for the S-CHIP debate.
Just think of it as economic stimulation.
How much money is wasted in paying for the time the House takes up in gesture politics (as MM eloquently put it)?
When you consider the salaries of the representatives, their aides, the house aides, extended staffers and the like… Why can’t we put a number to that and point out just how much money they’re wasting on something they know will fail.
In project management, I’d start thinking in terms of earn/burn rates, but it’s getting harder and harder to determine times when congress is truly earning its value.
Not to worry, 30. (No rhyme intended) Just buy a mansion around that new bedroom set and the government will bail you out.
Sorry for the threadjack… couldn’t resist.
I’d be happy to just to have a handful of times in the last…say….year that they have earned the salaries they vote for themselves.
This isn’t about 2008. This is about 2009 when the Dems are very likely to have representation in the Oval Office and almost certainly will enjoy greater majorities in the Capitol. Dems know that health care is an issue that gets broad support from the American people. The more it’s in the news, the better it is for Democrats.
This makes good political sense.
Sigh… this and Baseball steroids…
But funding for Enlistment bonuses for the Military are still on hold…
And… justs where is my Ret. Military pay raise for this year?
Healthcare gets broad support from the America people; however, S-CHIP did not… And will not, having, as you say, “representation in the Oval Office” come 2009 won’t change that. That’s what you universal healthcare zealots seem to miss. You can’t “church” this one up. It’s still a pig. The America people don’t want it. If you are suggesting that the reason we didn’t have the S-CHIP expansion was solely due to President Bush’s veto, then you haven’t been paying attention.
How about if we start with a pay CUT for congress?
Maybe some university economy class can put the numbers together, see that our nugatory congress is operating at a rate of deficit never imagined by humans before.
If it were a business, and they employees, my oh my. Each department would file BK, each employee would be fired, arrests would be made for the illegality, no one would be left to run the joint.
THEN it may be productive.
On January 22nd, 2008 at 11:49 am,
I’ve been looking for mine too, but am not about to hold my breath.
Last week, as I sat in an office building with mirrored windows, I watched a robin repeatedly slam into the window attacking his reflection. He must have crashed a hundred times without getting his quarry.
Sounds like that bird is qualified to serve in the House Democrat leadership?
I am suggesting exactly that. The S-CHIP expansion got a healthy majority in both chambers and it polls incredibly well across the country. Democratic candidates are using the S-CHIP as leverage against their Republican counterparts and its working. The issue has been a winner for the left.
How many time’s can you beat a dead horse and beat it and beatit? Time to call out Michael Jackson.
How pathetic, I am so sick of these idiot’s.
But as usual a loser for taxpayers.
You haven’t been paying attention.
If the price of S-CHIP was charged just before the time of polling, it might not poll as positively. Assuming that such polls are unbiased (which I doubt).
Of course, very few are going to say they are against providing health care for children. It’s a feel-good thing to want to provide. There’s no limit to the amount of ‘nice things’ we could say would be provided that the population would, of course, like. It’s the latent cost that is the deal-breaker.
If the associated costs of doing this, the fact that it’s not all going to ‘children’, and the expanded typical family that would be receiving such support were detailed to those polled, I believe you’d see a difference.
It may be viewed as a winner for the left. But that comfort is heavily based on an under-informed population that is being suckered into the human shield effect.