The Democratic congress, facing the lowest public approval ratings on record, has been trying to create the illusion that it is accomplishing something. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi and her accomplices are just not capable of playing it straight.
Thus, …

Rusty said:

…it polls incredibly well across the country…

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.

It polls incredibly well.

You haven’t been paying attention.

The issue has been a winner for the left.

But as usual a loser for taxpayers.

How pathetic, I am so sick of these idiot’s.

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.

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.

The override is expected to again fall short…

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?

Romeo13 said:
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?

I’ve been looking for mine too, but am not about to hold my breath.

but it’s getting harder and harder to determine times when congress is truly earning its value.

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.

But funding for Enlistment bonuses for the Military are still on hold…

And… justs where is my Ret. Military pay raise for this year?

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

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.

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.

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.