Bush says he'll veto children's health funding-again

[babylonsister]

Can't you just feel that oozing compassion?


Bush says he'll veto children's health funding
By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Wed, August 8, 2007

WASHINGTON — President Bush vowed Wednesday to veto bipartisan legislation that would sharply increase funding for a popular health insurance program for poor children.

In a wide-ranging interview with economic reporters, Bush also shrugged off Wall Street volatility, discounted fears that credit is drying up in the U.S. economy, said the housing-sector's problems still point to a "soft-landing" and opposed any bailout for homeowners or lenders.

Bush met with economic writers shortly after reading a statement in the Treasury Department's ornate Cash Room, flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney and the administration's entire economic team. He was seeking to calm both consumers and investors rattled by several weeks of Wall Street volatility.

"The underpinnings of the economy are strong, 3.4 percent growth in the second quarter, strong unemployment numbers, low inflation, real wages are on the rise, there is a strong global economy that means it more likely that somebody will buy our goods, our services," Bush said. "The basic fundamentals are good."

Asked if he'd veto legislation that increases funding for the State Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act, called S-Chip, Bush answered while the question was still being asked.

"If S-Chip is used to expand the nationalization of health care, I will veto it," he said. He said that he'd proposed increasing S-Chip funding in his budget, but much less than Congress wants.

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[ck4829]

1. Bush plans to veto health insurance program for children of poor families

K&R everyone, K&R.

[youthere]

7. no, it's....

BUSH PLANS TO VETO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN OF POOR FAMILIES!!!

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[hatrack]

2. Yes, and he wants to cut corporate taxes to make America more "competetive"

If the smoking fragments of the congressional Democrats can't use this disgusting contrast to pound him into the ground, they deserve to implode completely.

[babylonsister]

5. Nice contrast; disgusting, really, but point well made. I also

worry about the remaining 'smoking fragments'.

[saltpoint]

3. I'm sure the president feels that if kids were foolish enough to have

been born in poverty, it's their own fault. If they'd been smart and had been born into a wealthy family, they wouldn't be whining for help now.

I'm sure the president's mother would be willing to put poor kids up in the Astrodome for awhile, and maybe donate some cash for cots.

Compassionate conservatism at its finest.

[polichick]

4. Remember Steve's question from the audience in the last debate ...

He asked what was wrong with our country ~ just as Michael Moore asks in Sicko, WHO ARE WE?

[BOSSHOG]

6. And he wants to give our servicemembers a lower then proposed pay raise

and fuck a new GI Bill, and increase the health care costs to servicemembers for their families and for retirees and their families. Meanwhile the drug addicted deserter, who continues to be supported by the 20% of what comprise the trash in this country is shoveling two billion (thats two thousand million dollars) per week into Iraq because he's a liar, lacks leadership and management skills and is two proud to admit he and his kind have been wrong all along.

Meanwhile fuck the kids and fuck our kids in uniform. Oh feel the compassion.

[PA Democrat]

8. Find a parent of an uninsured kid to ask a question at the next presidential debate

about this issue. The disabled former LTV steelworker's question moved many people and was covered by the media. I think the same should be done for the issue of uninsured kids with special emphasis on the bastard's veto.

[Bitwit1234]

9. How come he can ALWAYS use the taxpayers money for

anything the corporations and the rich want. AND the billions he is squandering in Iraq.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. ** hates poor children.

[VP505]

11. Its going

to be interesting to see if Bu$h does veto, if the 68 votes that passed the bill will hold for an override.

[YOY]

12. You know, one good PR move that isn't a photo op wouldn't kill him

I guess he truly wants to go down in flames as the worst president in American history. I still remember his 'history will judge me" line. It will be worse than any griping that comes from here methinks.

[OHdem10]

13. The Dems ;left themselves wide open for criticism on this

bill. The GOP has used this in their Saturday Debates to
hmmer the Dems( Iowa Debates Saturday shown several times
on C_Span.

Same hit carried by all Cable news channels.

Story in WSJ.


Report in shorthand. Democrats eviscerated American Senior Citizen
Health Programs and American Children's Health Program to provide
Welfare to Illegal Immigrants.


The story stands since no Democrat has stepped up to refute.
Democrats wete invited to Programs but declined to appear.

[antigop]

14. Hey, those kids just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps n/t

[PA Democrat]

15. No Child Left Behind is a joke in more ways than one. How well does a sick child do in school?

I was thinking back to that boy who died from abscessed teeth. How in the world can a kid learn when they have an excruciating toothache, or if they miss a lot of school because of untreated asthma?

[Faux pas]

16. bush, the great humanitarian.....

yes, this meant to be :sarcasm: .

[Nutmegger]

17. "Socialized health care!"

:rofl:

What an effing joke.

I guess the kids should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. It's their own damn fault anyways. :(

[radfringe]

18. just substitute emergency room for work houses

in A Christmas Carol - and you have bush..

"At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge," said the gentleman, taking up a pen, "it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir."

"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge.

"Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

"And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?"

"They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not."

"The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge.

"Both very busy, sir."

"Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it."

"Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?"

"Nothing!" replied Scrooge.

"You wish to be anonymous?"

"I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there."

"Many can't go there; and many would rather die."

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ... It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"

— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.

but unlike Scrooge being visited by 3 ghosts and reformed from his experience - it's us that will be haunted by the 3 ghosts for many years after bush

[Buns_of_Fire]

19. Boosh* needs a swift kick inna nuts

Don't worry, Agent Mike ( :hi: How's the kids?). I wouldn't soil my shoes to do it.

[deacon]

20. as he pushes for corporate tax cuts. Whatta guy...

[Cass]

21. This bill would cover 3.2 million additional children.

His reasoning for this veto is that it's a step toward government-funded health insurance. Has he or any one of his ass-kissing republican congresspersons ever proposed reigning in out-of-control health insurance costs so these families could afford coverage? No, because corporate profits are what's most important to these slime balls. They think its perfectly acceptable and commendable to let kids go without medical care so as not to infringe on corporate profits. And they are proud of this stance. Mind blowing stuff.

Let this veto hang around his neck and the neck of every ass-kissing republican congressperson who votes nay on this. I agree with the poster who said that the parents of an uninsured child should ask about this at the next presidential debate. Unfortunately, I doubt any of the republican candidates are ever going to have the guts to face unscripted questions from the public at large like we've seen the democratic candidates do on 2 occasions now.