SCHIP veto override fails.
Submitted by Linda on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 4:08pm.
"This is not about an issue. It's about a value," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said just before the vote. "For the cost of less than 40 days in Iraq, we can provide SCHIP coverage for 10 million children for one year." emphasis mine --lc
So here's the deal folks - if we bring the troops home 40 days early, we can provide health care coverage for 10 million children for a year. If we bring them home 120 days early, then we can give them 3 years of coverage.
Where are our priorities?
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Where are our priorities?
I think the real question is what are the Republican priorities. They have lied and twisted every aspect of this legislation to fit their delusional view about what's really needed. They have taken a bill that gives states the opportunity to set their own standards to match their unique needs, and lambasted it with a one-size-fits-all Replicant sledge hammer.
The only good news in this is that some of the a$$holes representing North Carolina in Congress will soon be out of a job.
"If boiling people alive best served the interests of the American people, then it would neither be moral or immoral." Max Borders, Civitas Institute
Every Repub from NC voted no
I just looked at the roll call. Every single Repub from NC voted to sustain the veto.
Looks like I have two donations to make this weekend ... one to Larry Kissell and another to Marshall Adame.
This vote needs to be hung around
the necks of every rep who voted to uphold W.'s veto. This is an absolutely disgusting display of national "priorities". For 40 days worth of Iraq we could have given children healthcare who currently lack it.
If I read the BCBS rate page correctly a family of four with parents around 40 years old would pay 800+ dollars a month or like $9,000.00 a year - that is15% of the income mentioned as the max in the SCHIP bill. Nine grand is a lot of money if your income is $61,000, but that's the thing Republicons don't get.
Person County Democrats
And that 's pre-tax income
So after you pay your taxes, etc. that 61,000 looks a lot more like $50,000. Which sounds like a lot of money, until you try to actually care for a family on it.
I guess we know how much families are actually valued.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
Republicans & some Democrats have just defined the 2008 election
Republicans and some Democrats want more war, more spying on Americans, more torture and are fine with leaving uip to ten million children and pregnant women without medical coverage.
Democrats (most) want the return of our constitutional government, civil rights, an end to the Iraq war, Hospital care for all Americans, border security, congressional oversight for Intelligence agencies, an end to torture and the closing of Guantamino Bay.....for starters.
We will overcome. Good will prevail. It always has...and always will.
Thank you ICloud....
I just read the report.
And let me remind you that our Congressman Mike McIntyre
who voted against S-CHIP originally ( just as he voted to condone torture and gutting habeas corpus) will now claim he voted for S-Chip...just like he now claims to have voted against torture. etc., which, like SCHIP, was in a later vote that also failed.
Opportunist...triangulating...obfuscatory...disingenuous...McIntyre!!
SE NC Dems
He knew it was safe.
He knew he could appease his constituents by voting this way now, because he knew it wouldn't pass. Weasel.
Same goes for Etheridge -which hurts me to say, because he was a personal friend of my Dad's. For once I'm glad Dad isn't here to see how some of his political "good guys" have turned to buttheads.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi