No child left behind, unless leaving that child behind gives me a chance to stick it to the Democrats. Heh-heh-heh.

The hypocrisy of this group is amazing. They want to end abortion and prohibit stem cell research, but as soon as those babies turn 18 and are eligible to register for the military, they're happy to send them off to be maimed and die in a bogus war.

They want to help the poor, so they give tax cuts to the rich and then shut "not quite poor enough" children out of health care and doom their families to desperate financial struggle.

"Well," Bush says, "no one is really prohibited from health care because they can always go to an emergency room." That's the point, Mr. President, by the time it's an EMERGENCY, the person is really sick and is going to cost the system a lot of money. If we took care of them routinely, they wouldn't HAVE to go to the emergency room for anything but an actual emergency, such as an accident. People are lined up now in emergency rooms with chronic coughs and stomach pains and rashes and all kinds of things that could be treated effectively and efficiently by a family clinic at much less cost, and often prevented by routine health care.

Oh, the stupidity!

Bush has served his corporate masters well, or at least the ones who are profiting off the health insurance mess.

But quite a few of our corporate masters are starting to realize that the current system is a drag on their bottom line (think GM) , and may soon pull the strings to change the marionette's dance.

No doubt he'd have been unable to resist the impulse to say something like what he said when asked about Karla Faye Tucker's execution, as recorded by Tucker Carlson:

"'Please,'" Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "'don't kill me.'"

Compasssionate conservative, my ass.

Where is the fury on this? Where is the anger?

It's time to point out that Republicans, all Republicans, are bad people. Less money for health card and the relief of human suffering and more to destroy health and lives and promote and prolong human suffering. Republicans are dancing in the streets. War is kiddie porn to Republicans. They have sex to the reports of car bombings and casualty figures. They get aroused when watching the military channel. They live vicariously through the eyes of dead soldiers. These people are severly damaged and need help. Maybe a deployment or two to Iraq would benifit them. Especially all those snotty nosed little war mongers at Fox. Enlist, loyal Republicans. Here's your chance to all be the heros you have only dreamed of being.

Then democrats don't deserve to win anything.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi need to set override votes ASAP. When they lose - as they most certainly will - they need to hold specific republicans accountable for the failure to get the President to live up to his rhetoric.

Bush believes that the trillion + dollars we've spent in iraq are worth it, but won't spend a few billion for better healthcare for children, because he's such a "fiscal conservative." This is such abject bullshit that it should shame any republican into hiding before we declare them "enemy combatants of commen sense."

The entire republican party should be made accountable for answering for these vetos and what it says about their priorities. If democrats won't do this, a pox on them as well.

You'd think they'd want those underprivileged kids healthy so when they grow up and have no options in our devastated free market economy they'd be in shape to join the military out of desperation so they can go die in pointless wars trumped up by Republican bloodlust.

Bush is concerned that expanding S-CHIP to the "not quite poor enough" will lead to fewer of the "super poor" being covered.

What Bush doesn't seem to get is that, thanks to him, the "not quite poor enough" aren't "moderately comfortable middle-class" anymore. The Brady Bunch, they ain't.

The "not-quite poor enough" are the fragile middle class. They're one pay-check away from disaster. One illness away from financial ruin. They can't afford to take sick days. They're two-parent households that still struggle. They have massive credit card debt and no savings. They can't count on their company pensions. Their jobs are being outsourced overseas. And if their job provides healthcare coverage, it's through an HMO with limited providers, high co-pays and deductibles, and the HMO denies their legitimate claims, creating even higher out-of-pocket costs.

Bush's tax policies have helped create the "not-quite poor enough." As their creator, Bush ought to step up to the plate.

Just say it fast three times: George Bush George Bush George Bush. Now go throw up on some of the poor people who may have been helped by enacting this bill into law. Poor people have to realize that they will never have the extensive health care Bush owns because he was born into money, not poverty. So quit your complaining and be born rich for love of Christ.

Bush SAYS he is concerned that expanding S-CHIP to the "not quite poor enough" will lead to fewer of the "super poor" being covered.

I happen to find this almost, just a little, vaguely justifiable argument to be complete and utter bullsh-t.

Without taking a position on the question of whether God exists, it is clear that one cannot possibly be a Republican and a Christian (or good Jew for that matter).

All through the Old Testament prophets and the New Testament Gospels the standard of evil behavior is not sex, abortion, or murder; it is the rich and powerful who mistreat the poor and weak. In America, we call those people Republicans.

Democrats need to go after the fundamentalist vote by telling them that if they vote for Republicans they fail the "sheep and goats" test and are going to hell.

Because the majority of Democrat politicians are rich white men whose parents were rich white people just like their freakin' ancestors, who came over from England with land endowments and loose connections to royalty to speed their way to success in the new world. They brunch with Republicans, belong to the same Yale and Harvard clubs as Republicans, attend the same $1000 a plate dinners, read the business pages of the New York times in the same palatial homes while underpaid immigrants water their same manicured lawns. Oh, and, here's the kicker: at heart, they believe the same things on most major policy issues. How can they fight the good fight without conviction?

How can Democrat politicians be steely about an issue like health care when they've never had to worry about it, and nor has anyone they ever knew growing up? How can they overcome the niggling suspicion that spending tax money on health care for poor kids is anathema to the oligarchical system that has been so, so good to them and theirs?