SCHIP – The Republican Battle Against Children
Posted By JM Bell on October 16, 2007
Pro-Life is a false phrase strapped like a pageant banner across the chests of a majority of Republicans. Pro-Life. Say it a few time. Let it roll around your mouth. Can you taste the bullshit? Republicans like to bandy about Jesus when they talk about what they believe. Jesus may have loved the little children, but Republicans certainly do not.
Pro-Birth is what Republicans mean when they spit out the aforementioned phrase, because what happens after birth is just none of their concern unless, some of the time, that after-birth just happens to live in their own house. “Once you’re breathing, fu*k ‘ya” is the GOP motto.
Rep. Chris Cannon in an AP story today:
‘This is a profoundly moral issue,’ he said in an interview. ‘But that doesn’t mean the government should do it. Government isn’t very good at doing some things, mostly because of rigidity.’”
Do you mean the rigidity of not questioning your White House marching orders? Or the rigidity of demoniacally castigating a much needed and already successful, yet painfully underfunded, program because it violates your hearfelt ethos of “fu*k the children, cause I’m a family values Republican. Rich families, that is.”
Or, to really take the prize for all around douche bag, Utah’s Rep. Bishop from an NBCNC Report:
Shrugging off a barrage of political attacks, GOP members such as Utah’s Rob Bishop are expected to uphold Bush’s veto of legislation expanding children’s health coverage.
Bishop calls the vetoed bill a “dumb idea” for relying on higher tobacco taxes to pay for insuring children, a provision he says would create a need for new smokers.
You and your ilk blather endlessly about how the system is broken, and then do absolutely nothing to change the behavior of your top donors. This is an opportunity to do something good on the backs of the wallets of those whos smoking habit violates the tenets of the religion you so poorly represent as a member.
Newsflash, Congressmen, I smoke. I also have no problem with a tax to support SCHIP.
In related news, from MSNBC’s Keith Olberman Blog, the NewsHole we have pictures from the Frost Family who have been vilified and shat upon by the “conservative right” throughout that few days:
Here are the aftermath pics of the accident that nearly cost Graeme and Gemma Frost their lives. These are personal photos from their parents, shared with Countdown for use in a segment tonight. The children are still suffering today, and if there’s any doubt they and their family could use a little help from Uncle Sam, it should disappear after you see these.
See the rest HERE
Reps Cannon and Bishop … now is the time to shuck off your partisan blinders, to cast aside your distaste for those who make less than six figures and do the right thing. Vote to override the veto from a man who has never, ever, had to worry about health insurance a day in his life.
[...] J.M. Bell – and Friends wrote an interesting post today on SCHIP The Republican Battle Against ChildrenHere’s a quick excerpt Pro-Life is a false phrase strapped like a pageant banner across the chests of a majority of Republicans. Pro-Life. Say it a few time. Let it roll around your mouth. Can you taste the bullshit Posted in J.M. Bell – and Friends ( 84 links from 45 sites) [...]
SCHIP polls at 84 percent, Bush at 25 percent. If Republicans side with Bush this Thursday, it will be another indication of how weird things have gotten in Washington. Sure, hundreds of billions for an unnecessary and counterproductive occupation of Iraq, not one cent to help the middle class avoid medical bankruptcy!
[...] J.M. Bell – and Friends wrote an interesting post today on SCHIP The Republican Battle Against ChildrenHere’s a quick excerpt Pro-Life is a false phrase strapped like a pageant banner across the chests of a majority of Republicans. Pro-Life. Say it a few time … children’s health coverage. Bishop calls the vetoed bill a “dumb idea” for relying on higher tobacco Posted in J.M. Bell – and Friends ( 84 links from 45 sites) [...]
HEY NOW! Watch your rhetoric! No medical bankruptcy in Utah, pal. It ain’t allowed.
A need for new smokers? So Bishop is afraid that if we give children health insurance protection under the new SCHIP that we’ll have the federal government out entrapping healthy adults into a life of smoking to pay for it?
Wow, that’s some quick thinkin’ there. Thanks Rob and Chris. Heckuva Job you’re doing.
Sometimes I think we as a state have elected a few people that still sing “squirrel goes round the tree” while tying their shoes.
i smoke too…i’m always quitting, in fact. while i don’t mind paying the taxes to fund schip, i’m inherently opposed to programs like these.
why is it my responsibility to make sure jane and timmy have health insurance for their 8 kids? shouldn’t they make the necessary arrangements to make sure they can afford those 8 kids up front?
i don’t have problems helping out kids like the one shown in your picture. which, btw, that picture is straight up propaganda, jm. i’m disappointed in you.
i have problems helping out kids whose parents run them to the doctor for every little cough or runny nose. i have problems supplementing families whose parents work short shifts so they’ll continue to qualify for aid from the government. i have problems with people who pump out kids they can’t afford.
i’m much more willing to donate money to families who have sick kids with cancer, rare diseases, etc. i’ve done it in the past…and i’d do it again in a minute. but for the first time in a LONG time (maybe forever?), i am actually in FAVOR of something bush did.