2009 SCHIP Bill Introduced
2009-01-14 03:28:00 52.4 percent on large cigars (most premium cigars follow under this federal classification) with a cap of no more than 40 (forty) cents per cigar. This is far lower than the original proposal from the Senate of $10 per cigar and $3 proposed by the House.
By: Cigar Beat Blog
SCHIP Stories: Law? What?s That Got To Do With Bush and McCain?
2008-04-19 19:17:00 The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was passed in 1997 by bipartisan agreement. Why SCHIP? SCHIP was enacted at a time when the number and rate of uninsured children were growing rapidly, especially among those just above the poverty threshold— too poor to purchase private coverage but not poor enough to qualify for ...
IL-14: SCHIP, Telecom Immunity and Core Values
2008-03-10 16:34:00 George W. Bush remains an albatross for Republicans. Lots can, should and will be made of Bill Foster’s surprise victory in Denny Hastert’s old seat, aided by Obama’s endorsement (and unhindered by McCain’s of the hapless Republican Jim Oberweis). The House Democrats’ chief fundraiser said the victory in today’s special election for the Illinois seat ...
This Weeks Question for Candidates in the Seventh - SCHIP
2008-03-03 20:30:00 A few candidates in the New Jersey’s Seventh Congressional District are trying to claim the title of conservative. While some talk in wonderful platitudes and generalities, they fail to say where they would stand on particular legislation to substantiate their assertions. Therefore weekly questions will be posed for them to answer so voters can consider ...
SCHIP Veto Failed
2008-01-26 17:49:00 Cigar Aficionado reports that the House of Representatives once again failed to get enough votes to override President Bush’s veto of the unethical approach to funding SCHIP. The votes came in 260 to 152. “While it is always possible that Democrats will introduce another SCHIP bill in 2008 to force Republicans to vote on the issue, ...
By: Cigar Beat Blog
Is It SCHIP or Cow Chip?
2008-01-24 13:57:00 Yesterday the House for the second time failed to override President Bush's veto of the SCHIP legislation. You can say what you want about the reasonableness of Bush's veto, but what this recurring impasse really says to me is that the Democratic congressional majority screwed up by sending Bush essentially the same bill a second time, knowing they didn't have the votes to override the promised veto. So now it's an election year and the Democrats still haven't gotten one of their basic feel-good pieces of legislation for 2007 passed - and one with a decent amount of Republican support to boot (though far from a majority as the override votes show). They face two unpalatable choices on SCHIP now. They can back down on the issues that Bush has cited in his veto in order to get SCHIP reauthorized, or they can continue their hard-headed approach of sending the same bill over and over again in the naive hope that it will pass. One approach shows wisdom and maturity but alienate...
By: Coldheartedtruth
Bush authorizes Schip
2007-12-30 03:39:00 State Children’s Health Insurance Program has been renewed. This is significant. ——— From Boston: President Bush on Saturday signed legislation that extends a popular children’s health insurance program after twice beating back attempts to expand it. Politically, the move was a victory for Bush, although Democrats say it will come back to hurt Republicans at the polls. Two ...
Schip, pas op, nieuwe golven ....
2007-12-28 02:04:00 Schip, pas op, nieuwe golven zullen je terug naar zeevoeren! Waar wil je heen? Blijf liever vast in dehaven. Kijk toch, de riemenzijn van je flanken weggerukt.De mast kraakt door de kracht van een zuidwestenwind,de scheepsra kreunt en je kiel is niet met kabeltouwgesjord; zij kan het geweld vangolven amper verduren!Je zeil is aan flarden, het boegbeeld is niet meervoor de zoveelste maal door jou te vermurwen.Hoezeer jij, Pontische pijnboom,dochter van het vermaarde woud,pronkt met je afkomst, trots op een naam -vergeefs:een bange zeeman heeft geen vertrouwen inscheepslak. Als je niet oppast,word je een speelbal der winden.Tot voor kort wekte jij mijn onrust en weerzin op,nu het pijnlijk gemis van een niet gering zorgenkind:mijd de zee die zich uitspreidtom Cycladische schittering.- Virgilius -
By: Baha i
Bush Vetoes SCHIP Expansion Bill
2007-12-13 20:15:00 From IPCPR. President Bush Vetoes SCHIP Expansion Bill For The Second Time Inadequate Support in Congress for Veto Override President George W. Bush on December 12th vetoed for the second time legislation aimed at expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by $35 billion over five years exclusively funded by increases in the Federal excise tax rates ...
By: Cigar Beat Blog
Bush Vetoes SCHIP Again
2007-12-13 00:19:00 From the AP: 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. It was Bush’s seventh veto in seven years?all but one coming since Democrats took control of Congress in January. Wednesday was ...
By: The Hot Joints
Beer Monday: SCHIP Still Gives It Up To Illegals
2007-12-03 13:52:00 Buenos Monday! The start of a new work week. Time to get busy, revolutionize outside the box, shift a few paradigms, be productive. How ’bout a beer? Illegal aliens - can’t really call them undocumented workers, since so many of them steal valid social security numbers and/or get legal drivers licenses - are raising a stein ...
By: Pirate's Cove
SCHIP Stories: GOP Shopping For LifeSavers
2007-11-20 19:32:00 From kaisernetwork.org’s Daily Health Policy Report: Medicaid Eligibility Issue in SCHIP Negotiations, Lawmakers Say [Nov 19, 2007] A dispute over upper-income limits on Medicaid eligibility has become the “primary obstacle” to completing negotiations on revised legislation that would reauthorize and expand SCHIP, according to lawmakers, CQ Today reports. House ...
SCHIP Stalled As Congress Goes To Recess
2007-11-20 14:41:00 Reported by cigarcyclopedia.com: Chris McCalla, legislative director of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) sent a note to the trade at the close of last week?s Congressional calendar: ?The House recessed Thursday night and the Senate will leave Friday until December 4, with no further progress on federal State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). ...
By: Cigar Beat Blog
A Quick Callout on SCHIP BS
2007-11-18 21:24:00 The following letter appeared in the Bucks County Courier Times last Thursday; I'd answer it in print myself, but I'm already working on something else...The most recent display of dishonesty around healthcare reform is just too much to take! Congressman Patrick Murphy and Sens. Bob Casey and even Arlen Specter have all sunk to a new low as they sell us out and then hide behind "the children."Forcing this grotesque expansion of out-of-control government spending down our throats is unconscionable. Bush was absolutely right to veto the SCHIP expansion bill. It is more of the same from Congress: higher taxes and spending, and a blatant move toward socialized health care.SCHIP was meant for poor children, but our representatives are trying to expand the program to include adults, and kids whose parents make as much as $80,000 a year! Congress should not be redistributing money from poor smokers to families that can afford private health insurance.Ruining the entire healthcare system ...
Don't Flip On SCHIP, Dems!
2007-11-15 22:30:00 Writer Robert Pear of the New York Times tells us here about eight Democratic senators who have communicated to Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer in the House (the Dem leadership, of course) not to concoct any kind of a ?compromise? on SCHIP that limits the rights of states to cover parents along with their kids.My mind boggles as to why the hell the Democrats in the House would even imagine that such a ?compromise? would be palatable to the vast majority of Americans who have firmly decided that fully funding SCHIP in the legislation they have already passed is the right thing to do, as opposed to Dubya and the Repugs who are completely and utterly wrong to oppose such legislation.And if Pelosi and Hoyer want to hear from someone else in Congress on this (don?t know why they should have to, though), then read this??In my home State of Arizona, our SCHIP program, KidsCare, was developed to provide low income children with medical, dental, and vision coverage. KidsCare has successfully en...
More Repug SCHIP Whining
2007-11-05 22:56:00 Today?s New York Times contains a story by reporter Robert Pear alleging in its headline that ?missteps on both sides? led to the latest SCHIP veto by President Brainless last week.This made me wonder what the Dems could have done wrong on SCHIP, as opposed to Dubya and his obstructionist Repug sycophants (as you read the story, it becomes crystal clear that they and no one else are responsible for the impasse).However, Pear does tell us the following?Democrats say that Mr. Bush described the bill in wildly inaccurate terms, got bad advice from his staff and missed many opportunities to find common ground. Republicans say that Democrats misjudged the president; excluded House Republicans, who in the end were crucial, from negotiations; and aimed negative advertisements at the very members whose votes they needed to override a veto.As for "misjudging the president"?Representative Michael R. Turner, an Ohio Republican who voted for the bill, said, ?The administration did not come forw...
Do the Dems Want the SCHIP bill to Fail?
2007-10-31 12:47:00 Peer Hannaford of the American Spectator says they do, and here’s why: They are convinced that it is a surefire issue for them, come November 2008. They don’t care as much about children as about winning the next election. They figure they can hang the blame for “hurting children” on the Republicans, win veto-proof majorities in ...
SCHIP vs BOTL Round Two
2007-10-31 10:00:00 It did not take long for the SCHIP bill to come back to life. The new version keeps the cigar tax the same as the old version. The sad thing here is I think it will pass this time, if not it will at some point. Like most cases, people (companies) do not do much ...
By: Cigar Beat Blog
Still Too Much for the SCHIP Program
2007-10-30 00:26:00 A family of four making $62,000 will be eligible for federal health insurance. And we travel further down the road to serfdom: President Bush and other critics of a $35 billion spending increase for children’s health insurance say they’ll support expanding coverage to families of four making as much as $62,000 a year, but they ...
First SCHIP Now LIHEAP
2007-10-28 20:15:00 See Original StoryAbout 30 million low-income American households who will need help paying heating bills this winter from a U.S. government program will be left in the cold because of a lack of funding for the program. The poor, already digging deep to pay for expensive gasoline, also will face much higher heating fuel costs, especially if oil prices stay near record levels.Consumer groups and state energy officials have sounded the alarm, saying a federal program to help poor families pay heating bills will have nowhere near the money needed to cover those expected to seek assistance...Still, the administration did not back away from its threat to veto legislation to boost funding for LIHEAP to levels it has called too high.LIHEAP has an interim annual budget of $2.16 billion, but the White House wants to cut the program to $1.78 billion for the 2008 spending year that began on October 1. The House of Representatives has passed legislation to boost the program to $2.66 billion, wh...
By: LETS TALK
SCHIP, Again
2007-10-26 17:27:00 The New York Times tells us here that the U.S. House in Congress made the following revisions to the SCHIP bill before they voted on it yesterday?House Democrats tried hard to address the issues raised and relentlessly hyped by Republican critics. The bill would speed up the removal of childless adults who have been enrolled in the program in a handful of states, and would reduce the enrollment of parents, even though including parents is often the best way to reach their children.So the Dems thus turned a winning hand into a losing one in an effort to placate the Repugs here ? unbelievable.And as the Times editorial continues?House Republicans still wanted more. They sought to eliminate all adults from the program, except pregnant women, and to base eligibility on gross income ? with no ability to discount spending on child care or other vital needs. The Republicans also wanted to impose arduous documentation requirements to ensure that no illegal immigrants are enrolled, even thou...
House Passes Another SCHIP Bill
2007-10-26 14:19:00 The vote was 265-142. Not a single Republican switched their vote from last time, but all but one Democrat did.Baron Hill (D-Indiana), Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), Kathy Castor (D-Florida), Mike McIntyre (D-North Carolina), Bob Etheridge (D-North Carolina) all voted aye despite voting nay in the original bill, but all voted to override the President's veto last week.Dan Boren (D-Oklahoma) who voted nay in the original bill, but voted to override the veto was not present.Gene Taylor (D-Mississippi) was the only person to switch his vote, having voted nay originally and against overriding the veto.Jim Marshall (D-Georgia) again voted nay, having originally voted nay and no to overriding the veto.Republicans are angry because the vote occured while many of them were out in California with the President, including Brian Bilbray, David Dreier, Elton Gallegly, Gary Miller, Duncan Hunter, and Darrell Issa. They accused the Speaker of using the disaster and the Republican absentees as a means...
By: Nicks Notes
Dems Pass New SCHIP With Guarantee To Be Vetoed
2007-10-26 09:19:00 Sigh. Democrats continue to play political games, rather then passing good legislation Once again defying a veto threat from President Bush, the House on Thursday passed a bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children. But supporters did not have enough votes to override the promised veto. The bill was approved by a vote of 265 ...
By: Pirate's Cove
SCHIP Passes But Will FAIL Again
2007-10-26 00:36:00 The SCHIP bill reared its ugly head again in the House today and while it passed thanks to 43 Republicans, it still fell short of the veto proof margin it needed to overturn President Bush’s veto. The bill was released to House members just last night at midnight and this vote was pushed through, hoping to ...
SCHIP Foul
2007-10-25 19:08:00 This is ironic:GOP cries foul on timing of children's health vote WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republicans are fuming over Democrats' decision to hold the next vote on the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Thursday -- when many Republicans will be in California as President Bush tours areas hit by wildfires."Five to seven members are going, all of whom would be 'no' votes, and [Democrats] know it," House Republican Whip Roy Blunt told CNN. "This is clearly designed to minimize the Republican opposition to this bill."President Bush vetoed the proposed five-year expansion and $35 billion spending increase for SCHIP on October 3.House Democrats tried to override the veto last week, but failed to get the two-thirds majority needed for a veto. The bill to be taken up on Thursday is a revised version that Democrats hope will win converts.At a meeting of Republican House members to discuss the revised bill, Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas said the Democrats are "taking advantage o...
As In The SCHIP Quagmire, No One Wants The DREAM Act Either
2007-10-25 09:34:00 No matter the jargon and unhanded under and over tones of the socialists in the United States, no one wants the DREAM Act, either.The vast majority WANT SCHIP when it is FIXED. It is for CHILDREN and NOT adults. Get over it. There has a been a wealth of articles written and posted everywhere but the bloggers on the right post ALL of the facts and not cherry picked pieces/parts designed to overwhelm the emotionally weak.IBD has a poll result in regards to the DREAM Act that went down in flames...AGAIN...yesterday. The poll shows an "Across-The-Board Opposition To DREAM Act's Tuition Break.The so-called DREAM Act, standing for "Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors" and giving children of illegal immigrants a path toward legality, failed a crucial test vote in the Senate Wednesday. Supporters needed 60 votes to advance it, and they got only 52. The measure would have allowed illegal immigrants who plan to attend college or join the military, and who came to the U.S. ...
KID?S HEALTH CARE: Rep. Pete Stark Blasts GOP on SCHIP, Iraq
2007-10-24 16:34:00 4min 08sec Stark after the removal of his balls…. 1min 31sec
By: Current Era Blog
Beware an SCHIP ?compromise?
2007-10-24 15:23:00 As the President and Congress aim for a “compromise” about SCHIP, I encourage you to remember than any likely deal will not be a good outcome for the taxpayer, the health care system, or our constitution.It’s much like two burglars getting to your house at the same time. One of them only wants the jewelry. ...
Congressman Blasts Bush for Sinking SCHIP
2007-10-19 16:47:00 anthony @ 15:50 BST After the House failed to override Bush?s veto of the SCHIP children?s health care renewal bill on Thursday, Rep. Pete Stark berated the administration and the bill?s opponents. In light of their attitude, he questioned whether the nation?s kids would ?grow old enough for you to send [them] to Iraq to get ...
By: Suzie-Q
Governors Supporting SCHIP
2007-10-19 06:48:00 42...Yes 42 out of the 50 Governors supported Congress in the SCHIP battle and urged the President not to veto. 4 Territorial Governors also support the bill42 Governors! Here's the list;Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-Minnesota)Governor Edward G. Rendell (D-Pennsylvania)Governor James H. Douglas (R-Vermont)Governor Jon S. Corzine (D-New JerseyGovernor Janet Napolitano (D-Arizona)Governor Deval Patrick (D-Massachusetts)Governor Ruth Ann Minner (D-Delaware)Governor Jennifer M. Granholm (D-Michigan)Governor M. Jodi Rell (R-Connecticut)Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-Montana)Governor Mike Beebe (D-Arkansas)Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D-Louisiana)Governor M. Michael Rounds (R-South Dakota)Governor Bill Ritter (D-Colorado)Governor John Baldacci (D-Maine)Governor Brad Henry (D-Oklahoma)Governor Martin O?Malley (D-Maryland)Governor Benigno Fitial (D-Northern Mariana Islands)Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Illinois)Governor Felix Perez Camacho (R-Guam)Governor Christine O. Gregoire (D-Washingto...
By: Nicks Notes
Victory!!! House Fails to Override George Bush's SCHIP VETO
2007-10-19 06:28:00 Nancy Pelosi and her Moveon.org cronies are totally worthless. The 273-156 roll call was nine votes short of the two-thirds majority supporters needed to enact the bill into law.We have talked enough about the SCHIP over the last few weeks, so just check out the links below in case you missed the details.For all my complaints with George Bush over the years, I am finally proud to have him as my President.Related EditorialsMoveon.org Sent Me Another Propaganda Email about SCHIPI Just Got Off the Phone With Rush Limbaugh Regarding this Moveon.org Email: They Want a Candlelight Vigil For The SCHIP!Bull-SCHIP!!!! Democrats Seek Forced Government Dependence With SCHIP Expansion While The "Stupid Party" Cheers Them On . . . .Communication Matters: Why George Bush's Veto of the SCHIP Program Was Not Good EnoughHow the Democrats Lost the 2008 Election in Three Weeks: From Moveon.org, to Liberals Siding with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Lee BollingerMoveon.org Continues With Its Assault On Gen...
SCHIP Veto Override Falls Short in House
2007-10-19 05:47:00 Nancy Pelosi speaks on Capital Hill behind large colorful graphics about SCHIP. The veto override on Thursday fell 13 votes shy of what was needed to override the President. Photo by REUTERS. On Thursday, House Democrats who had fought feverously to persuade Republicans to change their votes on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in order to override the president?s veto, fell 13 votes short of a veto proof majority. Democrats were able to pick up more votes the second time around but it was still not enough. What is astonishing about the fact that President Bush was able to get Republicans to ?fall in line? with him on this bill is the fact that the vast majority of Americans support the passage of this legislation. What is also amazing is that a lot of Republicans do not seem to care about keeping their jobs. With Democrats in a strong position to pick up more seats in the House and Senate in 2008, a ?Nay? vote on this piece of legislati...
SCHIP: Those Who Switched
2007-10-19 05:14:00 A list of those who voted against the bill in September, but for overriding the veto;Dan Boren (D-Oklahoma)Kathy Castor (D-Florida)Bob Etheridge (D-North Carolina)Baron Hill (D-Indiana)Dennis Kucininch (D-Ohio)Mike McIntyre (D-North Carolina)Those who voted present in September and voted to override;Diane Watson (D-California)Those who did not vote in September and voted to override;Bill Delahunt (D-Massachusetts)Those who did not vote in September and voted to sustain veto;Barbara Cubin (R-Wyoming)Wally Herger (R-California)Ted Poe (R-Texas)Those who did not vote either time;Bobby Jindal (R-Louisiana)Julia Carson (D-Indiana)Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas)Those who voted aye in September but did not vote today;Peter King (R-New York)-The list does not include Jo Ann Davis (R-Virginia) who did not vote in September as she passed away before the override vote could take place.And yes, no Republicans switched their votes, either way.
By: Nicks Notes
Official Dem Word On SCHIP
2007-10-19 00:42:00 I wonder sometimes why I do not get myself off the Democrat mailing lists, which I am on due to registering at Democrats.org, the official website of the Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, I mean, Democrat Party. Then I recieve a goody like this Dear William, If there’s ever been a day that shows how important victory in ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Tobacco Snuffs Out SCHIP Veto Override
2007-10-18 23:13:00 Email from IPCPR Legislative Director Chris McCalla: Veto Override Vote Fails Finally, this critical vote failed to pass the House of Representatives in a floor vote today. The final vote was 273-156, short of the two-thirds majority necessary. We wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your perseverance, tenacity, vigilance, and persistence in contacting ...
By: Cigar Beat Blog
Rep. Pete Stark Smears Troops and President During SCHIP Debate
2007-10-18 21:41:00 Rep. Pete Stark said this during the House debate on overriding the SCHIP veto: First of all, I’m just amazed they can’t figure out, the Republicans are worried we can’t pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don’t care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where ...
By: The Hot Joints
SCHIP Override: Those Who Supported The Veto
2007-10-18 20:47:00 Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama)Todd Akin (R-Missouri)Rodney Alexander (R-Louisiana)Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota)Spencer Bachus (R-Alabama)Richard Baker (R-Louisiana)Gresham Barrett (R-South Carolina)Roscoe Bartlett (R-Maryland))Joe Barton (R-Texas)Judy Biggert (R-Illinois)Brian Bilbray (R-California)Gus Bilirakis (R-Florida)Rob Bishop (R-Utah)Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee)Roy Blunt (R-Missouri)John Boehner (R-Ohio)Jo Bonner (R-Alabama)John Boozman (R-Arkansas)Charles Boustany (R-Louisiana)Kevin Brady (R-Texas)Paul Broun (R-Georgia)Henry Brown (R-South Carolina)Brown-Waite, Ginny (R-Florida)Michael Burgess (R-Texas)Dan Burton (R-Indiana)Steve Buyer (R-Indiana)Ken Calvert (R-California)Dave Camp (R-Michigan)John Campbell (R-California)Chris Cannon (R-Utah)Eric Cantor (R-Virginia)John Carter (R-Texas)Steve Chabot (R-Ohio)Howard Coble (R-North Carolina)Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma)Tim Conaway (R-Texas)Ander Crenshaw (R-Florida)Barbara Cubin (R-Wyoming)John Culberson (R-Texas)Geoff Davis (R-Kentuck...
By: Nicks Notes
House fails to override? SCHIP veto
2007-10-18 20:29:00 WASHINGTON - House Democrats failed Thursday to override President Bush's veto of their pre-election year effort to expand a popular government health insurance program to cover 10 million children.
By: Get rich
Live Blogging The SCHIP Debate In The House [Update Failed]
2007-10-18 18:58:00 I'm not liveblogging it because I find it all ridiculous. There are already poor families covered by this program. The debate is over whether it should be expanded even further to basically cover middle-class children who aren't poor at all....
By: Diggers Realm
SCHIP Veto Override Debate...UPDATE...REEEEEEEEEJECTED
2007-10-18 18:31:00 The Leftinistra are being held to the fire in regards to House Rules and the idgit Stark from Leftifornia is angwy about it. Too damn bad!!Anyway, Michelle and Captain Ed and Wake Up America are live blogging the event.Captain Ed has the Stark Implosion Video up.The Weekly Standard has a piece up.Voting on the override now (12 minutes and counting remaining) and it looks like the override it will fall short by 15 votes. GWB needs 144 votes to sustain the veto. It is up to 119 now.1211 and time is up...273 Yay, 156 Nay.The veto stands.Another anti-American assault defeated.Catch the wavelet the whining beginand the whiners soil themselves with stupiditythe Caliphate News Network whines inthe NYSlimes has a tizzy
Jerry Garcia Declares Support For SCHIP
2007-10-18 05:56:00 Unless you?ve been out of the country you have no doubt heard about the campaign by Democrats to overturn the President?s veto on SCHIP. It?s been nothing short of ?SCHIP mania? on the left for over a week. Someone who doesn?t follow politics closely might think it?s only because they care about kids and want them ...
Moveon.org Sent Me Another Propaganda Email about SCHIP
2007-10-17 22:19:00 I just received another email from Moveon.org. According to Moveon.org, not only will the Republicans lose votes if they uphold President Bush's SCHIP veto tomorrow, but children are going to die.Yes, children are going to die who cannot afford healthcare, but for the SCHIP program. So, according to Moveon.org, I can save these poor children by contributing $25 to pay for an advertisement telling the story of a young sick child. The total advertisement should cost $200,000. According to Moveon, this young girl would be dead today if it were not for Big Government. How about I pay them $25 for someone to teach these people economics?Nevertheless, this does beg the question, "Why can't Moveon.org just tell me which kids need my help so I can donate $25 to the needy families directly?" The answer is because this is not about needy families. It is not about the children. It is not about healthcare. It is about their power, their control, and their contempt for the rest of us....
Urging my congressman to sustain the SCHIP veto
2007-10-17 19:36:00 I just received an email from the Mark Udall campaign asking me to write a note to Congressman Udall (my representative) urging him to vote to override President Bush?s veto of the SCHIP expansion. The campaign web site was even kind enough to provide me with a form letter and some writing tips. Needless to ...
The Inky Descends Into SCHIP Wingnuttia
2007-10-16 17:04:00 (With more than a little help from David Espo and the AP here, I should add?)So let?s start with the lede, shall we?WASHINGTON - Shrugging off a barrage of political attacks, House Republicans are on track to hand President Bush a victory this week by upholding his veto of legislation that would expand children's health coverage.This is right out of fantasyland. A universally unpopular president vetoed a universally popular program to provide health insurance for our kids, aided and abetted in no small part by ideologically sympathetic politicians and media loudmouths (and yes, I acknowledge that, at this point, the veto may hold in the House). That is a victory?Rep. Rob Bishop called the vetoed bill a "dumb idea" for relying on higher tobacco taxes to pay for insuring children, a provision he said would create a need for new smokers.And Rep. Chris Cannon said that while he agreed with (Utah Repug Sen. Orrin) Hatch on one point, they part company on another. "This is a profoundly m...
A very reasonable fear about SCHIP
2007-10-16 15:57:00 For me, the biggest fear is not that middle income families will drop their private insurance in favor of federally sponsored insurance. No, my fear is that the left will expand SCHIP to an all encompassing universal health care for the entire country. That’s just paranoia you say? Think back to the anti smoking Nazis of twenty years ago. They started off just wanting this tiny area at work smoke free. Now they have you backed into a closet with the door locked and the light out to sneak a smoke. They are telling people here in California that they are not allowed to smoke in their own homes! I do not trust the left for a single second not to run with this if given the chance. ~RJH New York Times article link An Overblown Fear About S-Chip To hear the Bush administration tell it, expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program would entice hordes of families to drop their private coverage and put their children on the public dole. As the Health and Human Services secreta...
Psst! Dems Hint They Haven’t the Votes to Override SCHIP Veto
2007-10-15 13:00:00 From the Blog: Big Lizards Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Haight-Ashbury, 95%) has as much as admitted yet another Democratic failure: They don’t have the votes to override President Bush’s veto of the bloated and metastisized Democratic version of renewal of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.But let’s not start backways-round; before we ...
Facts about SCHIP and what we need to do this week
2007-10-14 21:26:00 I am going to list the facts about SCHIP, facts that the left doesn't want you to see, they would rather the focus be on anything but these facts.SCHIP needs to address what was wrong with the bill to begin, which is why underneath this post I will be listing all the phone numbers you need to be calling tomorrow (Monday) and every day until the 18th, when the vote to override the President's veto is held.We need to call those numbers relentlessly, jam the lines, and let our representatives know that they need to uphold the President's veto until the bill is written in a way that fixes the problems in the original bill and not expand those problems.Facts about SCHIP: Remember what SCHIP stands for as you read these facts. State Children's Heath Insurance Program.FACT ONE:From WSJ-670,000 adults are covered by Schip. Eleven states cover some parents, and six states cover either pregnant adults or some adults with no children.FACT TWO:As this Kaiser 2006 survey of all the states de...
Will Democrats Push SCHIP Through?
2007-10-14 03:19:00 Will Republicans Go Against Bush? (Read More)
Friday SCHIP-Eds
2007-10-12 17:00:00 Both Paul Krugman and E.J. Dionne address the desperate swift boating of the Frost family this morning.Paul Krugman - Sliming Graeme Frost All in all, the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate. If service members oppose a Republican war, they?re ?phony soldiers?; if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he?s faking his Parkinson?s symptoms; if an injured 12-year-old child makes the case for a government health insurance program, he?s a fraud.Meanwhile, leading conservative politicians, far from trying to distance themselves from these smears, rush to embrace them. And some people in the news media are still willing to be used as patsies.Politics aside, the Graeme Frost case demonstrates the true depth of the health care crisis: every other advanced country has universal health insurance, but in America, insurance is now out... |
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