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GOP To Poor Kids: Better Not Get Sick

AP   |  KEVIN FREKING   |   October 18, 2007 01:57 PM

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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.

The bill had bipartisan support but the 273-156 roll call was 13 votes short of the two-thirds majority supporters needed to enact the bill into law despite Bush's objections. The bill had passed the Senate with a bigger than two-thirds majority.

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- BrickSykes I'm a Fan of BrickSykes permalink


Hell, Georgie Won't Sign Anything the Democrats Send Him!

....And yet he says he wants to "...forget about Politics!"

Right, Georgie, let's all play BiPartisan, Boy!

Brick

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:54 AM on 10/19/2007
- kellygrrrl I'm a Fan of kellygrrrl permalink
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While experiencing a painful flashback of being teased and taunted on the playground, little Georgie could not resist the temptation to look down and rub his sweet revenge in their bully faces.
Yeah, Boy! You get you some of that sweet revenge!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:43 AM on 10/19/2007
- fitz I'm a Fan of fitz permalink

Its amazing,

I don't know how any children could have survived without universal healthcare during the 8 years of the Clinton administration.

Can someone explain how american children have managed to make it and grow up without universal healthcare for over 200 years?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:51 AM on 10/19/2007
- OckhamsElectricRazor I'm a Fan of OckhamsElectricRazor permalink

Many children did NOT survive and many more did not prosper. US is 41 in infant mortality, ranking with 3rd world countries. The US has among the highest rates of child abuse and child homicide in the world. We have the largest per capital prison population, disporportuately occupied by people with cognitive and behaviorial disabilities.

Our healthcare system rations medical services to the highest bidder. It is literally the best system that money can buy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:12 AM on 10/19/2007
- A Meat Beetle I'm a Fan of A Meat Beetle permalink
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Concerning that picture of Bush with the children: Don't we have laws we could invoke to keep Republick perverts like that away from our kids?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:24 AM on 10/19/2007
- Purple Girl I'm a Fan of Purple Girl permalink

Thye have faith the messiah will rise from the squalor of his up bringing (humble beginnings). They just don't have fatih he would escape the abortionist.Once your on the ground kid - you're on your own.
There's some sick MoFu's runnning this joint.And they're banking on getting US all killed- The Rapture. These folks shouldn't be in the WH, they should be in the Psych Ward.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:58 AM on 10/19/2007
- nomobull I'm a Fan of nomobull permalink
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send it back again and again.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:31 AM on 10/19/2007
- mi I'm a Fan of mi permalink

a plague on the houses of those who would
deny a child...or anyone, healthcare.
shame on them.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:00 AM on 10/19/2007
- ProfessorDuh I'm a Fan of ProfessorDuh permalink
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I just saw that idiot Fred Barnes on Fox News literally cackling about how the Republicans love it when they are accused of hating kids. I think he's actually become unhinged

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:16 AM on 10/19/2007
- FogBelter I'm a Fan of FogBelter permalink
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The only answer is no further funding for Iraq of anykind, including support contractors, until Bush authorizes SCHIP ... period ... end of story.

Bush isn't a King, isn't a Lord, isn't a God, isn't a Dictator ... he is an employee of the People of the United States and the People of the United States want SCHIP passed.

If Bush wants brinksmanship ... give him more than he can handle!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:46 AM on 10/19/2007
- BrickSykes I'm a Fan of BrickSykes permalink


Amen, Bro,

He doesn't know that any weak spots in the present SCHIP can be Fixed after it is in place. He's like most of the NeoCons, they expect everything to be "Perfect" before it goes into effect. He apparently doesn't know that NOTHING is perfect when it goes into effect! That's a ludicrous as his idea about making legislation "Permanent!" He doesn't realize that we live in a "Temporary" World, where NOTHING is Permanent! Period!

What a colossal screw-up this guy is. Did any of you bother to watch his Press conference from Wednesday? It's still over on CSpan, though they're hiding it so you'll have to dig a little. Go watch it, America. Go see exactly why this guy will be like Pearl Harbor Day -- Remembered in INFAMY! At the conference he performs exactly like a John Gotti would coming out of the Courthouse! Evasive - BS-ing - outright Lying - Shutting off the Reporters in mid question - "I know where you're going with this and I'm just not going to fall for it!"

God, he's Awful............

Brick

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:25 AM on 10/19/2007
- godlessclif I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

Bush doesn't want to fix weak spots. The changes Bush asked for would cut one million "rich" kids off the program because the health insurance companies think they can coerce those poor working families who are working 80hours a week, 40 hours for each parent to buy insurance by taking another part time job and working 120 hours, sixty hours for each parent.

Poor kids should get Medicaid, but Medicaid, which was once medical care for all of the poor, is today denied to everyone who is not crippled or pregnant, which is why S-Chip had to be created.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:48 AM on 10/19/2007
- ResidentChimp I'm a Fan of ResidentChimp permalink

Dems to poor kids: We'll use you as human shields until we can get the middle class insured for free.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:51 AM on 10/19/2007
- godlessclif I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

Medical care? For the working class. If the working class gets medical care it will take away all their incentive to work. They will lie in hospital beds all day and do nothing.

Next thing you commies will want to feed the poor.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:00 AM on 10/19/2007
- godlessclif I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

this is sarcasm, for those Republican that cannot tell.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:01 AM on 10/19/2007
- loki I'm a Fan of loki permalink
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I really cant wait to see how many repug supporters will be screaming about unfair and unjust treatment when they lose their jobs, health care, and 401k plans due to our Feed The Greed republican party.
I think once America becomes the republican vision of death and destruction, they should pass a law that anyone who is at that time, or was registered republican in 2008, will never be eligible for social services and that they do not have to pay taxes for as long as the republican dream world stands. Then again, they probably never have anyway so it wont make a dimes worth of difference.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:44 AM on 10/19/2007
- godlessclif I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

It is the Republican Walmart Utopia. The working class will stay in the store 24/7 working for food, while happy investors shop for foreign made bargains.

If you can't work, report to the soylent green plant.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:03 AM on 10/19/2007
- loki I'm a Fan of loki permalink
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Caption for photo..

" Now get out of her you little shits before some of your poor germs get on my $500 shirt."

" What the hell am I paying security for, why are you allowing these things to be so close to me!"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 AM on 10/19/2007
- lyingtruth I'm a Fan of lyingtruth permalink

Bush could have offered them Pre-Veterans benefits to save face.

A benefit that is near nothing!



    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:22 AM on 10/19/2007
- godlessclif I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

It is like the scene in the original "Mr. Deed goes to Town" with Gary Cooper. An unemployed man, whose family is starving, breaks into Deeds mansion and threatens him with a gun because he was feeding donuts to a horse.

One think the homeless in Palm Beach County can get free is a prescription for Seroquil, which prevent impulsive behavior. Not food, not housing, but drugs to keep them from threatening the rich tourists.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:12 AM on 10/19/2007
- leftLibertarian I'm a Fan of leftLibertarian permalink

Bush to Kids: "Now don't get sick 'cause 'merica needs you to die in war."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:52 AM on 10/19/2007
- godlessclif I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

They can have the faith based charity office heal them. Bush wants to start paying Benny Hinn medicare money for faith healing.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:13 AM on 10/19/2007
- totalliberal I'm a Fan of totalliberal permalink
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Every government service should be done away with and taxes collected only to service the ideal Republican world?

If I have it straight, the ideal Republican state will exist only to hire armed mercenary soldiers to patrol the world killing people who do not believe in armed mercenary soldiers patrolling the world killing people who do not believe in armed mercenary soldiers... etc, etc.

Brilliant in it's simplicity.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:28 PM on 10/18/2007
- ErnestineBass I'm a Fan of ErnestineBass permalink

totalliberal
Bush looks like he's sniffin that kids head. I bet he's thinkin' HEY, this one here smells just like a taco!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:34 AM on 10/19/2007
- godlessclif I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

H.G. Wells wrote about that nightmare Utopia
in his novel "The Sleeper Awakes"

"Boscastle!" Graham turned his eyes to the
youngster. "That was it -- Boscastle. Little Boscastle.
I fell asleep -- somewhere there. I don't
exactly remember. I don't exactly remember."

He pressed his brows and whispered, "More than
two hundred years!"

He began to speak quickly with a twitching face,
but his heart was cold within him. "But if it is two
hundred years, every soul I know, every human being
that ever I saw or spoke to before I went to sleep,
must be dead."

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/wtslw11.txt

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:18 AM on 10/19/2007
- LIR I'm a Fan of LIR permalink

Hey, RON PAUL FOOLS!

How did your boy vote on this????

You still love your lunatic fringer?

READ his 1980s position papers! Tell us THEN this man is not unlike all the other loons on the right...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 PM on 10/18/2007
- godlessclif I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

Ron Paul will end the war and the income tax.
With the end of the Empire all things are possible.

Ron Paul is the only candidate that will not only close GITMO, but also all other foreign military bases.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:21 AM on 10/19/2007
- chuckgraner I'm a Fan of chuckgraner permalink

Ron Paul isn't going to do a thing because the twerp is never going to get the nomination much less get elected.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:52 AM on 10/19/2007
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