SCHIP Override Vote Fails

[101Scout]

Just now, the 2/3 vote needed to override Goober's veto on SCHIP just failed in the House.

:mad:

[KyndCulture]

just saw this too.

Compassion. Something the republicans will never have.

[KyndCulture]

oh and to add the insanity that a repuke said to me over SCHIP last week

"the president vetoed this because people who make $82,000 a year are not poor"



:oregonian_gaah: :oregonian_gaah: :oregonian_gaah:

[rightiswrong]

George W. Bush is an asshole.

I refuse to ever apologize for saying this.

[Zemo]

George W. Bush is an asshole.

I refuse to ever apologize for saying this.

All I can think of is the lyrics from Lennon's "Instant Karma".

What goes around comes around.

Bush was not elected to serve the people but was appointed to further the "program".

[TheBoss(DCA)]

But, but, but it's pro life month, naw I keep forgetting its a misleadding name. There pro embryo at best.

[rightiswrong]

Love the fetus, hate the child.

[offabit]

Bush was not elected to serve the people but was appointed to further the "program".


When was Bush truly ever elected? :shrug:

[Icky]

He wasn't

[Kbob]

oh and to add the insanity that a repuke said to me over SCHIP last week

"the president vetoed this because people who make $82,000 a year are not poor"

:oregonian_gaah: :oregonian_gaah: :oregonian_gaah:
The THREE flaws/misconceptions/outright lies in your repukes sentence...

1) "People" • SCHIP is not designed to help people in general, but familes in general and specifically children.

2) "$82,000" • The original version of the bill was to cover families who earned 4x the poverty rate, or roughly $82,000. But the bill that Bush vetoed was a compromise bill wherein SCHIP would cover families earning 3x the poverty rate, or roughly $62,000.

3) "Poor" • SCHIP does not cover "poor" children, or children living below the poverty line. Medicaid does that. SCHIP is designed specifically for working families who earn a better than poverty rate income and who might otherwise be bankrupted if a medical emergency was to befall one of their children. This is the sort of scenario that hits the American economy far more than SCHIP ever can. It should be noted that the family income does not take into account the number of children in the household. So a family earning 60,000 with one child might be living comfortably, but a family earning the same amount with 4 children may be experiencing poverty-like conditions.

You can try to explain that to your Repuke coworker. But he probably won't get it anyway. If he doesn't, shine a light on the wall -- when he runs to try and catch it, just walk away.

[Icky]

Not sure this is the right thread for my post... but...

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Fox News anchor slams Bush’s SCHIP double standard.

Yesterday, on Fox News’ All Star Panel, conservative Roll Call editor Mort Kondracke slammed President Bush’s SCHIP “compromise,” which “cut[s] off about a million children from the rolls ([Only registered and activated users can see links]).” Kondracke called Bush out on making a prominent 2004 campaign promise to expand children’s health insurance:

You have George Bush, who promised in 2004 at the Republican National Convention that he was going to cover millions of children who were not covered by SCHIP if he was reelected? And what does he do? He proposes a bill that would result in almost a million kids losing their coverage from the level it’s at. It’s no wonder Bush’s approval ratings is in the 30’s.
Watch it:

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[Kbob]

That was Mort Kondracke saying that?!!

Fred Barnes is going to make him sleep on the sofa tonight.