Hope when the bill is re-worked, the Democrats have the sense to ditch the tobacco tax in favor of an income tax to fund SCHIP. As it stands, it will tax people of lower income than those it purports to help. What could be more Republican than that?

-It means you suffer.

-It means you watch your children sicken and die while wingnut boneheads who have’nt the first clue of where their economic interests lie prattle on about “personal responsibility” and “self determination” and attack you because you did not choose to move your family into a cardboard box, or forgo having a family altogether.

-It means that while you suffer, corporate elites, CEO’s, and the idle rich will continue to enjoy tax breaks, Federal Reserve bailouts, and every other perk you would expect if you were living in the softest of socialist welfare states. But don’t worry, their mouthpieces will will preach self-sufficiency at you 24/7 through the corporate media they’ve robbed you of.

-It means that while you walk the tightrope in a blizzard, trying to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, they are inside, eating the best food on a soft couch in front of a nice warm fire.

And they would like to coach you on the finer points of plunging into the abyss with your family and how necessary it is that it should be this way, while they gorge themselves in front of that fire.

And if attacking sick children and their hardworking families is what it takes to stay fat and warm, and not have to give up a single peeled grape, then so be it. Deal with that, while you work multiple jobs to stay afloat.

Right.. hunting for REAL WMD? no big deal.. besides, to we REALLY want there to be no WMD? these guys would have think up something original to keep our attention if they didnt have the constant fear factor up thier sleeve…lets be honest… our countries costs are someone else’s profits, and i just wish i just wish we’d find more honest trolls who were willing to come out and admit “i like war, i think wars a good thing, war makes money and some people need to die anyway”

honest trolls? nah…

The outing of Plame only destroyed the network working for the non-proliferation of WMD in Iraq and Iran—no big deal. It was only for retaliation for telling the truth about the President’s State of the Union Speech listing necessity of war being full of known lies 11 months before they were said. No big deal. Certainly not as important as the Clintons’ Christmas card list or who slept in the Lincoln bedroom.

Bigfoot has inside information proving nothing improper went on in that affair, just like he has information about everything that went on in Abu Gharib…

or responsibility for one’s parents actions. thank god we all agree pregnant women who dont believe they can afford insurance for thier unborn children should get abortions, right?

Did anyone get fired?

That was a display of responsibility and accountability, eh, footie?

You are right, I almost forgot Syria too… or anyone who dares voice a different opinion, you know, them darn “terrist appeasers”.

Katrina? Oh, nobody say that one coming. I mean, it was only a category 5 hurricane.

The (non) reconstruction of New Orleans? Well, that’s the fault of its citizens. I mean, c’mon, they have two hands and now how to use a shovel, don’t they?

Yeah, lots of sense of responsibility there…

/sarcasm off

Bush doesn’t always blame the Iranians for the fiasco in Iraq. Sometimes he blames the press, sometimes the Iraqis, and sometimes the Democrats.

Or whenever he tries to blame those “meddling” Iranians for the unending disaster that the Iraq occupation has become.

I’d pay to see him take responsibility for those, although I know he won’t. He is too busy looking for scapegoats for his (many) other disastrous decisions.

According to you, the entire rest of the developed world—you know all those nations that are overtaking us—-are “far left kooks who cannot accept the idea of responsibility for one’s own actions”.

If we don’t have a democrat come in and rescue us from $250 billion annual deficits AGAIN, then the IMF will move in, declare us a failed state, and take over our economy.

If it is all a question of people taking responsibility for their own actions, then why do all people in countries to the left of the US politically, fare better than Americans?

One study said even though the British eating, exercise, and drinking and smoking habits were worse than Americans in all classes—the British lived longer in all classes due to their universal, single-payer, government-run healthcare.

Why does the job growth rate ALWAYS improve going from a Republican president to Democratic president. Why does the job growth rate ALWAYS worsen going from a Democratic president to a Republican president, if it is all just a matter of whether or not people take personal responsibility?

Why did Clinton average 237,000 new jobs per month and W average 72,000 new jobs per month (at lower wages and less than the 140,000 needed to keep up with population growth) if it is all a question of personal responsibility? Why would Americans all of a sudden become more responsible under a Democratic president?

Why does Massachusetts have far better education than Texas? Because they have better responsibility?

Answer: they don’t. It is the policies that matter.

I wonder if the boy’s parents “made bad choices” and the crutches were not purchased via the all sacrosanct “free markets”.

Otherwise Pres Bush would be -what’s the word?- a bloody hypocrite.

Where is Michelle “unhinged” Malkin when you need her to set the record straight about a boy’s family financial situation?

/sarcasm off

That was one of many falsehoods (a/k/a “lies”) that Dubya came out witt during the 2000 debates. Dubya claimed to have been a champion of CHIP, but he vetoed the first bill, and let the second passage become law without his sgnature after the Texas lege went and passed it with a veto-proof majority.

While the so-called “liberal media” was frothing at the mouth over Gore’s sighs while Dubya was trying to peddle this kind of crapola, they said nothing about Dubya’s many lies and mistakes during the debates. Thanks, media: Thanks to you and your cupidity or laziness, we’re 4000 soldiers and a half a $trikkion short, with the nation swirling down the crapper….

Cheers,

With nylon or good hemp, just long enough to keep his heels barely off the ground until his calves cramp.