Lets Spend $billions On Iraq And Ignore Our Own Children's Health

[Parche]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Wednesday vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years.


Kids pull wagons full of petitions this week asking President Bush not to veto insurance legislation.

Bush exercised the veto at 10 a.m. ET before leaving the White House for a trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to discuss the federal budget and taxes.

Democrats quickly took to the floor of the House of Representatives to condemn the veto of the bill that received bipartisan support.

"The president has rediscovered his long lost inner fiscally conservative self," said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, in a mocking tone. "After an orgy of borrowing, spending and misspending on many dubious things, his target? Ten million low-income kids."

House Democrats also were quick to compare the bill's $7 billion cost to the money spent each month on the Iraq war.

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[Virginia Dare]

1. Them's good ole repub values....n/t

[PFunk]

2. Bush just sold the repugs down the river big time.

[jdlh8894]

3. Ten million low-income kids

And put the burden on 60-80 million low income smokers? Flame suit on and activated.

[Mojorabbit]

6. I totally agree

No one had the guts like Mike Moore said in Sicko to ask who we are as a country. Instead use an unstable regressive tax as the funding.

[mmonk]

4. Too late. Somebody already thought of that.

[liberal N proud]

5. How unpatriotic thinking about children...

when you should be thinking about war

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[jdlh8894]

7. I guess you make over $83K /yr

And don't smoke or have any kids.

[liberal N proud]

10. It was sarcasm

Fortunately my kids are covered by my health insurance package. But that does not stop me from seeing that there is a big need to provide health care for everyone.

I am 100% in favor of national health care for all. Regardless of income.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Perhaps the children need to become terrorists in order to get some

attention.

[valerief]

9. Only if we can put through another tax cut for the wealthy. nt