Everytime I think that Bush cannot do another hideous and insane thing, he blinks an eye and does it again.

Here’s a video asking people to call Congress to tell them to veto Bush. While the president’s rating is down the tubes, many Republicans are still on the fence as to whether or not they want the big flush too, especially when they have to explain to their constituents why they voted the way they did … against children’s healthcare.

What would you rather the government pay for — healthcare for 800,000 children or another week of war?

This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2007.

9 replies on “Healthcare for Children or War: You Decide”

  1. It is too painful to think about what we could have done with the money we are spending on this… we probably could have flown every Iraqi to America first class and put them through four years of college. Someone get a calculator, it wouldn’t surprise me if that were the case.

  2. This is so typical of the Bush administration(don’t get me started on the No Child Left Behind Act). They care so little for the little guy. It’s just a damn shame that there are still so many Republicans following liks sheep.

  3. Hey, it would be great to get out of Iraq. I also kind of bemused how Hillary wants to bomb Iran (who’dve thought everyone’s favorite leftist would make a straightforward move to appease the right — no new quagmire, just, oh yeah, a new quagmire!) [Read more on this]

    However, saying that we should see the situation as one hand or the other — the war or SCHIP — is folly. The funding of each is independent of each other and the issues involved are independent of each other. The war is funded federally; SCHIP would be state-run. Sure, we can say “it’s all government spending” but there’s a lot of other stuff we could cut to fund SCHIP. Besides, they want to, in part, raise taxes for a segment of society to fund SCHIP.

    Why not raise import tariffs to raise that money? Other nations restrict American exports but we’re glad-handed to take in all the foreign material we can. Only four percent of Kia’s products are American-made; pretty good until you realize its parent Hyundai is putting out commercials saying “we’re American too.”

    I’ll put it out there:
    Why support government-subsidized healthcare for people who earn more than $50,000 a year? (Mind that the $80,000 bandied about was an apparent exaggeration.)

    If you can answer that one without suggesting that people in the top quarter percentile of America automatically deserve a free ride for insurance (income structures from the NYT) then I might be more supportive.

  4. “What would you rather the government pay for — healthcare for 800,000 children or another week of war?”

    Ahahaha don’t you falsely assume that Bush is paying for either? The GOP can never ever claim “smaller govt/lower taxes/lower spending” ever again. The truth is that they love taxing people with user fees, they love having local government be left to pay for federal items, they love spending tax dollars on defense and border security, they love taking these items off budget when possible as if the spending doesn’t exist, and….

    They just love saying that any other spending is simply welfare and should be cut.

  5. Kral,

    If you vote John McCain or Ron Paul, you can get a smaller government. Especially Ron Paul, who is arguably a Libertarian-Republican hybrid and ran for president with the LP in 1988.

    The Libertarian Party is arguably the strongest anti-war party available that won’t veer America into outright socialism. Libertarians believe in an isolationist military policy, and The LP was against going to war as far back as 2002 — before many candidates voted for the war and then against it.

  6. Don’t forget that we’re not paying for the Iraq war. China is. And they’ll expect us to pay them back.

  8. Why the snarky reaction to people who held a different opinion on this matter?

    “Back pedalers”? I never reversed–back pedaled–on my opinion. So, what’s up?

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