AS PROMISED, BUSH VETOES SCHIP - Asshole!

[rndmprsn]

sorry i know this has been posted...i just wanted to call bushboy an asshole.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/03/393524.aspx

AS PROMISED, BUSH VETOES SCHIP

From NBC’s John Yang (from the White House) and NBC’s Mike Viqueira (from Capitol Hill)

President Bush vetoed the SCHIP bill at about 10 a.m. this morning. In her on-the-record, off-camera gaggle, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said that after vetoing the bill, President Bush is open to negotiating a deal with congressional Democrats. "The president is willing to listen to ideas ... with the focus on how do you get back to the original intent" of the program.

Asked whether he had reached out to Democrats on the issue, Perino said Pennsylvania Avenue is "a two-way street" and there have been no overtures from the Democrats. Instead, she said, they have "used a lot of different ways to demagogue the issue against the president."

Perino said they have no reason to doubt House Minority Whip Roy Blunt's confidence that the House will sustain the veto.

House Democratic leaders have decided to put off an override vote on the SCHIP veto until October 17. There will, however, be an hour of House floor debate at some point this afternoon on a procedural motion. Dems are also planning a press conference this afternoon. The motion will essentially call for delayed consideration of the override vote. It will pass.

Why put it off? To let the suspense build, and in the meantime pound the living daylights out of Republicans who might be anxious about voting with the president, in the hopes that they will cave. Speaker Pelosi says she needs 15 of them to override. She doesn't mention that she lost eight Democrats (out of 231) when the bill initially passed the House.

[TheUniverse]

1. I just don't understand this man.

How can you spend hundreds of billions on an unjust war and complain about giving children some tablescraps?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

7. Greed, money, power less human compassion. That is all to understand.

Fortunately, the vast majority of human beings retain a sense of empathy and compassion which makes it incredibly for us to "understand" the itsy bitsy minority that trades empathy/compassion in for the satisfaction of insatiable greed.

[global1]

2. The Dems Should Be Sooo Vocal On This And Loud And Clear Show......

the American public just the kind of man * is by vetoing this. The Dems should hammer this home and really embarrass the Repugs for supporting *. This should be the beginning of turning it around and finally - yes finally - putting it to *Co.

[rndmprsn]

4. if we can't win on this issue...

modest health care benefits for the MOST BELOVED, but poor, segment of our population...

THEN WE CANNOT EVEN THINK OF NATIONAL HEALTH CARE.

[VP505]

6. The House

Dem's are debating on the floor now, its unbelievable the excuses and whining coming from the RePukes. They are dead set to keep the veto from being overridden. Of all the lame excuses I have heard claiming that "we can not afford" to provide this additional coverage has to be the lamest. How about putting an end to Bu$h's cluster**** in Iraq and use the money being spent for one month over there to pay for this program and possibly a couple of others. Jan Schakowsky from Ill is making that point on the floor now, she says 2 1/2 weeks of Iraq money would pay for this program.

[Dukkha]

3. pure unabashed evil

anyone who supports him still is just as evil

[Tanuki]

5. The White House press secretary thinks "demagogue" is a verb? n/t