what’s amazing about the right wing intransigence in the face of the schip childrens health bill is that so many republicans support this bill(and it was actually co-authored and co-sponsored by prominent republicans).
1/2 of the republicans in the senate, and 40 republicans in the house, and a majority of republican governors support the bill.
but the damage has been done, because a bunch of republican senators and representatives have already voted against the childrens health bill.
ah boy, i wonder what these senators and representatives will be doing in 2008 when they’re roundly defeated?
how do you win an election when your opponent rightly accuses you of voting against a bi-partisan bill that extends health care to the children of the working poor?
everyone i know in dc, democrats and republicans, are genuinely baffled by the right wing position on this bill.
it’s a bi-partisan bill, with republicans desperately asking other republicans to sign it.
gw bush is a lame duck president who will never run for public office again.
the republican senators and representatives who voted against this bill will all be up for re-election soon. their party loyalty(although 1/2 of all republicans seem to support this bill…)will cost them their re-election bids.
kind of like lemmings following their leader off of a cliff.
and all for a bill that provides health care to the children of the working poor that was written by prominent democrats and republicans and costs as much as 30 days in iraq…
ah well, it’ll be interesting to see the democrats gain a veto proof majority in the house and senate in 2008.
moby
p.s-it’s funny that the right wing are saying that this program is too expensive and that it’s a first step towards socialized medicine. to put it in perspective, senator charles e. grassley, republican of iowa, said it was “intellectually dishonest” to make such “outlandish accusations.”