Meanwhile over at Jim Robinson's FreeRepublic....

[Aviation Pro]

...they are celebrating Motherfucker's veto of SCHIP and think that God should harden Asswipe's heart some more. Pardon me, I have to take a cleansing shower with bleach after visiting Jim Robinson's hate site.

If you can stand it, here's the link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905889/posts

Bush veto for child health bill
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7026454.stm ^


Posted on 10/03/2007 7:57:36 AM PDT by traumer


US President George W Bush has vetoed a bill to expand a children's health care insurance scheme, after it was passed with a large majority in the Senate. Mr Bush argues it takes the programme beyond its original purpose of insuring children from low-income families.

The vetoed bill proposed higher tobacco taxes to provide an extra $35bn (£17bn) to insure some 10 million children.

Children's health insurance is set to be a campaign issue in next year's elections, analysts say.

Eighteen Republican senators joined Democrats last week in passing the legislation by a 67-29 vote.

But the House of Representatives, which approved the bill by 265-159, was well short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto.

It is only the fourth time Mr Bush has used his veto power in the course of his presidency.

Public support

The State Children's Health Insurance Programme (SCHIP) currently subsidises health care for some 6.6 million people, most of them children.

Mr Bush had said he wanted only a $5bn increase in funding for the scheme.

He argued that expanding its coverage further would encourage people currently covered in the private sector to switch to government coverage - and that was too costly.

His decision to veto the bill is likely to prove unpopular with many people, however, correspondents say.

A Washington Post/ABC News poll suggested that more than seven in 10 Americans supported the $35bn increase proposed in the bill.

Democrats in the House say they will seek to persuade sufficient Republican congressmen to change sides to be able to override Mr Bush's veto.

But House Republican leader Roy Blunt said he was "absolutely confident" that he would be able to prevent that happening.

Many Republicans are likely to feel the pressure of public opinion ahead of congressional elections in November next year.



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1 posted on 10/03/2007 7:57:39 AM PDT by traumer
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2 posted on 10/03/2007 7:58:50 AM PDT by traumer
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It is only the fourth time Mr Bush has used his veto power in the course of his presidency.
This is one strong criticism I have of President Bush. He let far worse things than this get across his desk.


3 posted on 10/03/2007 8:00:15 AM PDT by TChris (Governments don't RAISE money; they TAKE it.)
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Since when is a 25 yr old college student a child?

4 posted on 10/03/2007 8:01:35 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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He will catch hell over this but it also is a big socialized for medicine farce. Why should it pay for anybody’s kids if they make $82,000.00 per year?

Should have had this kind of resolve on illegal aliens Mr. President.



5 posted on 10/03/2007 8:02:17 AM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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This is one strong criticism I have of President Bush. He let far worse things than this get across his desk.
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As in McCain-Feingold, for example.



6 posted on 10/03/2007 8:02:56 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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He was in a “go along get along” mode for most of his tenure. He’s finally realized belatedly he has to be more confrontational. If he keeps vetoing stuff like this it will serve a purpose - even if congress overrides. Some people actually thought the Dems would be better on spending than the pubbies. Unless they’re in a complete fog stuff like this should disabuse them of that.



7 posted on 10/03/2007 8:06:58 AM PDT by lasereye
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I was thinking his signing the largest expansion in the federal government since WWII and his senior drug give-away.



8 posted on 10/03/2007 8:07:58 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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Since when is a salary of $82,000 a year considered poor? The dims really infuriate me with their incremental socialism programs!



9 posted on 10/03/2007 8:09:14 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Ron Paul is nutcase, plain & simple.)
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[MidwestTransplant]

1. Here's my favorite

"Since when is a salary of $82,000 a year considered poor? The dims really infuriate me with their incremental socialism programs!"

Well is you have 4 kids in that family and it costs you about 1800+/mo to insure the family, they then spend over 1/4 of their income on health care. That leaves 60,000 for everything else without taking into account taxes. Plus there are all the families that are covered up to 82K with that being the highest level.

[displacedtexan]

3. Good points! Also...

That $82K (for a family) doesn't go very far if your job is in an expensive area.

[sakabatou]

4. To the freeper:

YOU! LEFT! OUT! OTHER! SHIT! YOU! AT! FR!

[NYVet]

5. 1800 a month for health insurance?

Either their health care plan sucks, or they are just getting screwed by Karma.

I spend less than 10% of that for health care on my family, and I make about 1/3 the annual salary of the example family.

[juajen]

11. Coverage under medicare for my retired husband and myself

is close to $600 per month and is going up in January. This includes the drug benefit and supplemental insurance; but, medicare is supposed to be reasonable. I friend of mine who is also retired but was under 65 paid $800 per month just for herself and it excluded cancer coverage because she had breast cancer a few years ago. She is still undergoing treatment so has to pay all of that as well as 800. Where in the world do you get your coverage, and what is the deductible?

[MidwestTransplant]

12. I meant total health care needs for a family of 6.

Very reasonable cost.

[still_one]

2. I would expect nothing less than from those good "christians" over there

I think one of the most profond momements of SICKCO, was a Micahel Moore hater couldn't afford his healthcare expenses for his wife, and was given an anonomous donation by Moore to cover those expenses

He had no problem cashing the check and using it. That speaks volumes about the selfish bastards

As long as it doesn't affect them, they don't care

[EFerrari]

6. "the senior drug giveaway"

Don't these little @ssholes have grandparents? :wow:

[still_one]

7. they behave like a bunch of sick psycopaths. That is all I can say about them /nt

[liberaldemocrat7]

10. Christians?

I don't consider Freepahs Christians. I consider them Christ stains or rather stains on the reputation of Christ.

[KillCapitalism]

8. What hypocrites!

They claim to hate taxes, which SCHIP is a tax-funded program, but yet they seem to love taxes when it comes to funding the murder of Iraqis.

[texastoast]

9. Good "Christian" Freepers

Nuff said.