So Bush vetos a bill for Children’s health insurance- a bill that had wide bi-partisan support and almost every Demcorat voted for, and it is being portrayed as the Democrat’s fault:
SCHIP slips as Dems trip over message -By Jonathan E. Kaplan – October 03, 2007
Democratic leaders on Tuesday moved quickly to shift public attention to President Bush’s expected veto of a children’s health insurance program from a surtax to pay for the war in Iraq.
Democrats had been reveling in their good fortune, believing they had a winning issue in legislation to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which Bush is expected to veto Wednesday.
Damned liberal media.
Billy K
The GOP is the Daddy Party. Daddies don’t make mistakes. If something goes wrong, it’s Mommy’s fault. (Mommy is a woman, you know.)
I thought we were all straight on this.
The Other Steve
I’m trashing on this thread now.
GOP Is Losing Grip
On Core Business Vote
Someone understands opportunity. Back in 2003 Bill Clinton was talking about global warming, saying that what it meant to address it was hi-tech, and what America did best was hi-tech. So combating Global Warming would be a big boon to American business.
The rapturist party hates business. Listen to them yell and scream against western decadance, just like their Communist friends Mao and Stalin.
Zifnab
$5 says if Dems manage to twist enough arms for a veto-override vote, it’ll be due to the valiant Republican Congressmen who helped save Children’s Health Insurance for everyone, horray.
*gags*
The Other Steve
What we spend on the Iraq war in one year could expand SCHIP to all children in the US for like a decade.
Billy K
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE? You filthy Commie…
Jay B.
Democratic leaders on Tuesday moved quickly to shift public attention to President Bush’s expected veto of a children’s health insurance program from a surtax to pay for the war in Iraq.
Actually, they’re both winning issues for the Democrats. Too bad their leadership doesn’t understand that. And, despite their epic incompetence, they are STILL thought of as the better choice.
When the GOP finally implodes (I’d say around this time next year), the hapless media will finally have something they can’t blame the Democrats for.
whippoorwill
News reporters might be liberal weenies but they know who signs their paychecks, and it ain’t Michael Moore.
BFR
Read the WSJ article The Other Steve linked to above. The GOP is imploding right now
El Cruzado
You underestimate their creativity.
Chris Andersen
What El Cruzado said.
No doubt the Broderites will complain that the collapse of the GOP was because the Democrats weren’t willing, in the spirit of comity, to go far enough to save them from themselves.
JWW
Why don’t you quit whining. He vetoed the bill for specific reasons. Why don’t at least point out those reasons. You can’t even be honest with yourself of readers about why.
rachel
JWW doesn’t need prudent reasons, or humanitarian reasons, or even politically savvy reasons. Bush had specific reasons, and that’s good enough for JWW.
TenguPhule
One reason only. To spite Democrats.
When Bush spends more in a month on his war masturbation then SCHIP costs in a year, his arguments are full of shit as usual.
TenguPhule
Bleh, fixed.
BIRDZILLA
More of the lie a day liberal left-wing news media they have become dispicible