Bush Vetoes Socialist SCHIP Program

J.J. Jackson* | October 4, 2007 

Glad to see the President found his veto pen and figured out how to use it:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — President Bush vetoed the children’s health insurance bill today, as he had promised to do, setting the stage for more negotiations between the White House and Congress.Mr. Bush wielded his pen with no fanfare just before leaving for a visit to Lancaster, Pa. “He’s not going to change his mind,” Dana Perino, the chief White House spokeswoman, said this morning just before the president cast only his fourth veto.

The bill was approved by Congress with unusual bipartisan support, as many Republicans who side with the president on almost everything else voted to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or Schip, from its current enrollment of about 6.6 million children to more than 10 million.

Anyone that disagrees want to try the “But the constitution says that the government is supposed to provide ‘general Welfare’!” argument so I can shoot that down by quoting the founding fathers?

The sad thing is however that had the program not included an expansion to children of families making $80,000 President Bush would have gone along with it. So don’t worry all you whiney liberals … you’ll have your precious socialism.

Would you Marxists PLEASE leave us Americans alone!


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One Response to “Bush Vetoes Socialist SCHIP Program”

  1. RonniesRayGun on October 4th, 2007 5:59 am

    The sad thing about socialism is that the socialists always promote it as “for the children”. Yet the children are the ones that suffer the most under it. This SCHIP program and the expansion of it are just a back door attempt at getting the socialized medicine that Americans neither want or need.

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