Somebody, think of the children!
From the AP via the Washington Post, Bush Signs Child Health Care Extension into Law:
Many Democrats, with help from some Republicans, wanted to give the program a significant cash infusion and broaden coverage to an estimated 4 million more children.
They overwhelmingly supported a tobacco tax increase to pay for the expansion.
(snip)
The Democratic-pushed bills would have expanded the program by $35 billion. Bush said the proposals did not put the neediest children first.
And we all know that the expanded bill was voted against by our very own Rubberstamping Randy Kuhl, hometown congressman extraordinaire, who lives in the back pocket of the tobacco companies, and votes lock-step with Bush all the way.
Don’t we have a responsibility to do right by our progeny? What a sad commentary on our society, when sick, uneducated children are what our local and federal governments have come to be content with. Thanks George, thanks Randy, thanks Maggie. But then again, I would expect nothing more.
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