We’ll be tying in the message that we’re wasting 10 billion dollars a month killing people in Iraq and that as long as that continues, we cannot be the strong and just America that we expect to be.

The veto SCHIP is just one way the President is nipping the prepubescent culture of dependence in the bud….

I gotta thing, leave me alone.

I need to make a rule for this in my rules of politics.

Never invite a Liberal Blogger over for tea and crumpets. It will get ugly.

Damn I’m pumped to go to this thing. “Yes, Congresswoman. Could you explain why you voted against the SCHIP renewal bill which would have provided health care for up to four million children currently doing with out? kthxbai!”

At this point, Thelma Drake better be hoping I go to that funeral and that it coincides with her little get together.

Also, and this is the idealist in me, but I’m also hoping that once Republicans slap Bush in the face on this and realize the earth won’t open up and swallow them whole, they’ll be a little less standoffish on other measures like Iraq. Aside from helping disadvantaged kids, this may help Republicans learn that doing what the people want them to do may actually be a good thing.

So here’s some not good news, but not entirely bad. Both congress and the White House have already stipulated that they will fund the program at its current levels until November which will at least give Congress enough time to put together an override vote.

In the Senate, I would spend just enough time to make sure everyone who voted for the bill will also vote for the veto, and you got a winner there. IN the House, you got somewhere in the neighborhood of fifteen to twenty voters. I think it’s doable. That’s only fifteen districts you need to target and make it clear to the offending congressman that should he fail to override the veto, he will most likely not be serving another term. I would personally target freshmen Reps and those Reps who are looking to face a strong Dem opponent in the upcoming election.

My congresswoman, Thelma Drake, is having a little get together this weekend. I plan on making SCHIP a key part of the converstaino (that is if I don’t go to a funeral, which is very likely to happen)

President Bush delivered on his promise to veto the SCHIP bill sent to him by Congress. This, despite the sanctimonious hokum that will soon be emanating from all manner of faux-progressive poseurs, is good news.
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