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Michelle Bachmann won't buckle for sure. Dean Heller probably won't. He's been voting much better than anyone could have predicted. I think that he's afraid of another Club for Growth primary challenge that saw him squeak by with a little more than 100 vote margin of victory I believe, so he might hold too.

As for the Floridians...who knows. Hopefully they'll stay strong.

I would donate money to such a cause.

I to am tired of liberals having free reign to distort issues without any public, effective refutation. I would donate money. Perhaps we at Redstate should start our own PAC.

The naive forgive and forget.
The foolish forget but do not forgive.
The wise forgive but do not forget.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I speak to you tonight from the Oval Office on something of interest to most American families. This week, because it was the right thing to do, because my job as President is to make sure the nation does not over-extend itself or its commitments, I vetoed the State Childrens' Health Insurance Program.

Let's be serious for a minute. Why would a President veto something meant to benefit children and their healthcare?

The answer is that the expansion of the program wasnt about children. And it would have changed the way healthcare is delivered in America.

...I vetoed this program because it would have expanded coverage to families with up to $80,000 of income, and to "children" up to 25 years of age.

That is not what the Congress had in mind in 1997 when it authorized this program.

I call on the current Congress to stop playing politics with the healthcare of America's less well to do children.

That is apparently not what some of our present Congressmen have in mind for this program. Speaking about this legislation on a radio program this month, one of our Senators said, "Shame on us for not having a single payer healthcare plan."

The SCHIPS program is not meant to radically change how Americans deal with their family doctors, with their local hospitals, with their pharmacies. It is meant to assure children, real children, that no matter what their parents circumstances that this nation will make sure no one misses a doctor's care because of a job loss or a parents' illness.

I call on both houses to pass, so that I may sign, the expansion of the SCHIPS program which I have sent to Congress.

And I call on you, my fellow Americans, to make sure that your legislators hear loud and clear that what you, my beloved citizens, want is a program to protect low income children, not a program which seizes control of health care deliveries for all.

Thank you and good night.