House to reintroduce SCHIP bill ‘as early as this week.’
House to reintroduce SCHIP bill ‘as early as this week.’
House Democrats will bring the widely-supported SCHIP bill “back to the floor as early as this week,” with relatively few changes from the version that President Bush vetoed. Campaign for America’s Future has a new video featuring children with a message for President Bush and conservatives opposing an SCHIP expansion: “No health care for us, no photo ops for you.” Watch it:
The White House indicated today that it is willing to “shift” and allow “states to cover children up to 300% of the federal poverty level. … The administration previously opposed legislation permitting states to cover children above the 200% level.”
UPDATE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) today announced that SCHIP legislation will be introduced tomorrow. Details on the new bill HERE.
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Now WHEN has Bush EVER used something for mere photo op moments?
Mission accomplished.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:42 pm“No health care for us, no photo ops for you.â€
Why do the children hate America?
October 24th, 2007 at 6:43 pmWonderful. Keep bringing it up, and keep the pressure on. Either the republicans will cave – and SCHIP gets passed – or they have to spend a lot of time and effort explaining to the voters why they are against health care for children.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:47 pmWow. I’m sure Dear Leader is a legend in his own mind.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:50 pmThe White House indicated today that it is willing to “shift†and allow “states to cover children up to 300% of the federal poverty level. … The administration previously opposed legislation permitting states to cover children above the 200% level.â€
WTF?
October 24th, 2007 at 7:05 pmDid Bush notice the sudden drop in polls or is this the RoveMath at work again?
cute kid, clever ad, dead-on message, plus a nice deja vu of the soup nazi on seinfeld…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
October 24th, 2007 at 7:15 pmVery nice. More like this.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:17 pm“relatively few changes”
… i do not like the sound of that…
October 24th, 2007 at 7:23 pmpast experiences, and all that…
…
It’s those pesky FAMILY VALUES repukians that hate kids.
More money for war, death and destruction = less for American Families and kids.
Buck Fush
October 24th, 2007 at 7:25 pmWhere are the states going to get this money? Why can’t we just fund universal health care with some of the 50% that goes to the pentagon then into the corporate coffers?
October 24th, 2007 at 7:33 pmWhy can’t we just fund universal health care with some of the 50% that goes to the pentagon then into the corporate coffers?
Comment by had enough
Because the Military Industrial Complex does not make money from having a healthy population, they make money from death and destruction, the congress is bought and paid for by companies like Haliburton etc.
The Health Insurance Companies make money from gouging the public, they also pay congress to do nothing to change things.
The Pharma Companies make money by keeping you needing pills instead of preventative medicine which universal health care would provide.
It is a vicious money (capitalist) circle.
That makes us a real CHRISTOFASCIST nation with real CHRISTOFASCIST values. Corporate profit over country.
Buck Fush
October 24th, 2007 at 7:42 pmCapitalism is the new Communism, and will destroy this country as surely as any other extremist system has destroyed so many before us.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:48 pmNow WHEN has Bush EVER used something for mere photo op moments?
Mission accomplished.
Comment by ChrisSEA
Snowflake babies, soldiers, spotted owls. Bush is nothing more than a photo op. There’s nothing else there.
October 24th, 2007 at 8:13 pmYeeess yesss… yikes, nice to see the democrats getting smart here…. keep
October 24th, 2007 at 11:06 pmbringing up the kids…its definitely taking a toll on bush’s popularity…amazing how the bush cultists arent even smart enough to know you have pick and choose your battles and that this isnt one worth fighting over…. the amount of us taxpayer money that has been lost to fraud in iraq is probably way more than the cost of this program, and yet how many right wingers do we hear screaming about more accoutability in iraq? none.. heck they didnt even show up at a meeting about the wars cost…..
And for goodness sakes……
Do NOT pass anymore funding for the Iraq war until Bush signs this bill!
October 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pmWhat extremest system has destroyed us before this?
Comment by michael — October 25, 2007 @ 1:12 am
Haw haw, you’re so stupid, you can’t even read! Or spell! Or think!
thanks for showing everybody what a tool and fool you are!
October 25th, 2007 at 1:32 am>but you in turn have no problem torturing to death innocents?
Please show proof embryos feel pain. PLease show proof embryos have any consiousness. I guess you don’t mind things like the morning after pill then, right? No fetal suffering involved in that.. you think we should strive to have more morning after pill use instead of abortions, right micheal?
>And once again, how come mommy and daddy aren’t providing their kids >with adequate health care?
this cracks me up.. you say abortion “tortures” embryos, so you’re bothered by the concept of embryonic suffering, but if real children are suffering because of lack of adequate healthcare, this doesnt bother you right?
so basically, what your saying is that abortion is bad, because the parent causes the fetus to suffer, but sick children who have alreeady been born and are suffering because of their parents decisions don’t deserve any of our sympathy or help, right micheal?
October 25th, 2007 at 2:00 amand while your at it micheal, please explain why you think websites cited by dick cheney in the 2004 election debates are just “slander” against right wing people?
October 25th, 2007 at 2:01 am>If you bring a child into this world, be prepared to care for it.
And if you’re not, abort it, right?
Or what you’re really meaning to say is “if your not ready to care for a child, dont have sex”?
October 25th, 2007 at 2:03 am>you losers choose to denigrate a President
> who beat you twice without any regard for
>these brave men and women
we don’t support the troops because we dont think giving the iraqis the freedom to become an islamic theocracy is something worth their lives?
micheal, isnt this guy shaking hands with the president of Iran the one our soldiers died to help put into power? do you think its a good thing? something worth our soldiers lives?
http://www.islamicmediacity.com/cms_files/news_images/1190391250.jpg
October 25th, 2007 at 2:07 amyou want to argue michewal ? you want to debate you little histrionic dogf@cker? its my stock and trade so lets dance… your so upset by what might happen to a soul-less embryo, but you wouldnt spend a dime to alleviate to suffering of a real child, just because his parents happen to not be psychic? would you encourage a program that saught to replace abortions with use of the morning after pill?
what really bothers you is women having control of their own bodies and sexuality, isnt that it ?its not the embryos at all, is it? your concern for children is wholly disengenous and you should just come out and admit thats not what bothers you about any form of birth control… if women aren’t busy being babymakers and objectified chattle they might actually pose a threat to your homoerotic “male order”, wouldnt they mikey…?
October 25th, 2007 at 2:19 ammicheal please explain why you think the governments decision should have the right to displace the parents when it comes to the suffering (or lack thereof) of the fetus but that once that child is born, the government should have no more responsibility for that child even though it forced the parents to bring it into this world…
October 25th, 2007 at 2:24 ammichael likes picking on kids; they can’t fight back. typical repig coward.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:25 amComment by michael — October 25, 2007 @ 1:36 am
NOTE to ALL Progressives posting on the TP site:
I reported this troll for off-topic abuse for the troll’s comment noted above.
IF you find that you MUST reply to their deliberately hateful off-topic rants, please report the trolls for ABUSE first!
October 25th, 2007 at 5:42 am>please report the trolls for ABUSE first!
I think TP keeps trolls like micheal and bigfoot around for the same reason that Fox News keeps that liberal Colmes the Mummy guy around.. to show just how creepy the other side can be, of course, since you can’t see people here, we just have to let micheal and bigfoot show us how creepy and ignorant they are with their words..
October 25th, 2007 at 5:56 am“I think TP keeps trolls like micheal and bigfoot around for the same reason that Fox News keeps that liberal Colmes the Mummy guy around.. to show just how creepy the other side can be…”
Comment by Chocolate Jesus — October 25, 2007 @ 5:56 am
Be that as it may, if WE keep reporting them for their abuse and their off-topic diatribes, TP will eventually have to relent and remove them.
Please help!
October 25th, 2007 at 7:01 amI really hope they keep Spitzers-NY-Families-Need-Help-Too Amendment in there. 300% of the Federal poverty level is still pretty much a joke in my state.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:00 amSo it gonna be Nancy or Steny to put the gag in Pete Starks mouth this time?
October 25th, 2007 at 10:06 am