Steph Miller just played a great Jack Cafferty rant...

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ripping Chimp a new one for vetoing the child healthcare insurance bill... does anyone have a video link to this?

A most excellent indictment by Mr. Cafferty.

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1. Try Here

Hope this helps.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/situation.room/blog/

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2. Thank you! video not up yet

will check back. :)

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3. found a TRANSCRIPT:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2007/10/03/cnn-s-cafferty-laments-war-spending-bush-veto-schip

WOLF BLITZER: Let's check in with Jack Cafferty once again. He's got the 'The Cafferty File.' Hi, Jack.

JACK CAFFERTY: Wolf, President Bush, who campaigned for the nation's highest office as a 'compassionate conservative,' vetoed a bill to expand children's health insurance today. That veto was cast very quietly this morning behind closed doors. No fanfare, no news coverage. The bill would have allowed an additional 4 million children to be covered at a cost of an additional $35 billion spread out over five years. $7 billion a year. And the tab would have been paid by raising the federal cigarette tax. But President Bush insisted the bill was too costly, took the program too far from its goal of helping the poor, and would encourage people covered in the private sector to switch over to government health insurance. He wanted only a $5 billion increase in funding. This is the same man who will soon go to Congress and ask for another $190 billion to continue that glorious war in Iraq.

Think about this: when President Bush came into office, the federal budget was in surplus, and the national debt was $5.6 trillion. Fast-forward seven years. Mr. Bush signed a measure last week to raise the debt ceiling for the fifth time in his presidency to $9.8 trillion. Not to mention the astronomical costs of those wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hundreds of billions of dollars, all supplemental appropriations that don't show up as part of the budget, and therefore, don't show up as part of the deficit. And in fact, statistics show that Mr. Bush has borrowed more money from foreign governments and banks since taking office than this country's first 42 presidents combined. But the children's health insurance bill was too costly.

Here's the question. President Bush has increased the national debt by trillions of dollars. Why would he veto a bill providing health insurance for children? E-mail your thoughts to [e-mail], or go to cnn.com/caffertyfile. Wolf?

WOLF BLITZER: $5.6 trillion when he took office, the debt now another $4.2 trillion. That raises it to almost $10 trillion. Jack, I did the math for you, almost double. Thanks very much.

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4. Hey -- Was Bush right to veto this?

>>The bill would have allowed an additional 4 million children to be covered at a cost of an additional $35 billion spread out over five years.<<

Normally, I despise anything Bush likes and vice-versa. That caused me to support SCHIP and oppose Smirk's veto. But am I right in doing so? The above quote makes me wonder.

If I read it right, it says that the bill Bush vetoed contains an 'addition 35 million to cover an additional 4 million kids for five years.

35 million bucks to provide health care for FOUR million children?

$8.75 million dollars to cover 4 million kids every year? That's over 2 million dollars per kid. Can that possibly be right?

If it is, I'm afraid I agree with Bush's veto.

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5. Nope

You shouldn't. You're reading it wrong. And your math is WAY off.

The total appropriation was for $35 billion over 5 years, or $7 billion per year. The number of children covered would be the those COVERED NOW, PLUS 4 Million more.

Besides, $7 billion divided by 4 million is only ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS per year. I don't know where the heck you came up with your figure of over $2 million.

$2 million times 4 million kids is 8 TRILLION, NOT BILLION, dollars.
The Professor

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6. kick for the link . . . and r. eom