"How Many Children Will be Dead" -- Are you kidding me?
By Michelle Oddis Posted in 2008 — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
It’s predictable: when your ideology requires you to justify every tax-and-spend growth of government with the statement “it’s for the children,” it would only be natural for you to do what the Democrats and their amen chorus in the liberal media are doing about the President’s veto of the SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) renewal legislation. If you listen only to them, you’d conclude that the President is against the welfare of poor American children and is using the money they need for healthcare to fund the War in Iraq.
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has called the Dems accusations about the SCHIP veto "over the top, borderline ridiculous rhetoric" and he’s absolutely right. Boehner's office has put together some of the irresponsible and absurd things Democrats have said recently to distort the SCHIP debate.
·Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) on the House floor asked “how many children will be dead or will suffer with disease and disability until enough members of this Congress are willing to stand up to the President… ”
·House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) cited a biblical reference saying that President Bush would bring new meaning to the phrase “suffer little children” upon veto of the bill.
·House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “told reporters she telephoned President Bush on Friday to tell him she was praying for him" to sign the Dem SCHIP bill.
·House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) after the veto said “President Bush used his cruel veto pen to say ‘I forbid 10 million children from getting the health benefits they deserve.’”
·House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said the veto is “a stunning lack of compassion for some of the most vulnerable members of our society.”
·Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called the President “heartless” for vetoing the bill and rhetorically wondered “how he could sleep at night.”
·House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) accused Republicans of “telling children to take a hike” when it comes to healthcare
·Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) stated today on the House floor that “the Axis of Evil isn’t just in the Middle East, it’s just down here on Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Once again liberal Democrats petition on emotion avoiding facts in order to manipulate the public and push their agenda.
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people who support abortion. how absurd can they get? obviously, the surface has only been scratched.
R.J.
and fetch Arthur Fonzarelli his water skies! GWB just vetoed S-CHIP for the children. How did they screw this up badly enough to have the UC per child insured increase by 72%.
Freedom Fighter in Occupied VA
Since the SCHIP bill, as proposed requires, millions of NEW smokers to generate the revenue, how many of the children will become orphans when their parents die from lung cancer?
What a cruel and cynical bill - increase health insurance coverage to middle class children while intentionally ruining the health of their parents.
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
"over the top, borderline ridiculous rhetoric."
How exactly are the Democrat comments on the veto only "borderline ridiculous" and not totally ridiculous?
Good grief! Those are all preposterous statements, but this one is simply unbelievable. But hey, at least they didn't suggest he was a phony President.
Oh ... wait ...
absentee