MoveOn.org raising money to run SCHIP ad
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Republicans support health care for poor children. Either for moral, philosophical, or political reasons, they all do. Indeed there is a conservative philosophical argument (and counter argument) that can be made that providing government health care for children is within the proper scope of government authority.
However, SCHIP is a bad bill and no […]
First Baby Boomer Retires Today…
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007…and I hate old people even more - not only to they drive god-awful slow and smell funny, but now they will slowly but surely begin to suck my financial soul right out of by metaphorical body vis-a-vis government, democrats, taxes, and social security.
I wonder if Cortez would have found the fountain of youth, would […]
Its all about the benjamins…
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Charles Rangel, New York Democrat and Chair of the powerful House Ways and Means committee, has long planned a “mother” of all tax reforms, the base of which would be the elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) - a tax meant to ensure that the rich didn’t avoid paying taxes by abusing charitable tax […]
Bush Vetoes SCHIP Legislation
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Bush Vetoed the SCHIP legislation earlier today, citing its fiscal irresponsbility stemming from its coverage of adults, children who already have private insurance and children of parents who make $80,000 a year.
No one is against covering at risk children, but kids with parents who make $80,000 a year or kids that already have insurance are […]
INCREMENTAL
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007As SCHIP prepares to die at the pen of President Bush, the Politico reports on an internal Clinton White House memo from 1993 that discusses back-up strategies in case the Clintons’ health care reform failed
The Politico reports that “Back in 1993, according to an internal White House staff memo, then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s staff […]
The Butcher Strikes Again: SCHIP Debate is a Farse
Friday, September 28th, 2007Tom Coburn speaks truth on the SCHIP bill. A bill which recently passed both chambers of Congress and is on its way to the President for his promised veto. A veto that will be sustained by at least the House and most likely the Senate.
My criticism of Republicans on this issue and other […]
Extend SCHIP program without spending billions to expand it
Thursday, September 27th, 2007An article published in USA Today, written by Mike Leavitt:
We all want to see every American insured, and President Bush has proposed a plan to see that everyone is. Congress, instead, is pushing a massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) that grows government without helping nearly as many children.
The president’s plan, […]
How Liberal Democrats View Wealth
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007While watching (a sober) Ted Kennedy debate (talk to himself) on the SCHIP bill on the floor of the Senate he said something that sums up how Democrats view wealth.
Ted Kennedy, pointed to a visual aid and which presented the spending choices the Bush administration has made relative to SCHIP legislation. It was a […]
You Decide: Is Huckabee (a little, a lot, or not at all) Socialist on Health Care
Friday, September 7th, 2007I am not convinced that he is not. I think his strategy is to craft a policy and a message based on that policy intended to cast a net that will catch the greatest number of voters.
Whether or not Huckabee committs this political crime or not, sacrificing conservative principles for independent votes, […]
Homeless for a night
Thursday, August 30th, 2007A homeless advocacy group is challenging all Democrat Presidential candidates to sleep on the streets for one night in order to bring to their attention just how the other half lives…
[a] challenge laid down this month by the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), a non-profit advocacy organization, to all of the announced candidates in […]
