1.0 link 66100 <![CDATA[Spendthrift Bush Draws Line on Kids' Health]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/margaret-carlson/spendthrift-bush-draws-li_b_66100.html Responding to a question about the growing number of uninsured Americans, President George W. Bush observed: "No one goes without health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.''

This let-them-eat-cake attitude recalled Barbara Bush's observation when thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims lay sleeping with strangers on the floor of the Houston Astrodome. They're "underprivileged anyway,'' she said, "so this is working very well for them.''

The Bushes have had many more chances to inform themselves than did...

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