SCHIP is a valuable program, designed, with bipartisan support, to provide financial aid to those poor working parents who had been purged off of the welfare roles. It is a good program, and is designed as the classic hand up, not hand out.

The SCHIP bill that W vetoed was expanding the program’s guidelines, so that parents in the middle class had access to it. This is clearly against the program’s intent.

Pretty good political ploy by the Dems to A. Creep us towards socialized medicine and B. Castigate the Reps as hating children.

If only W could think on his feet and spell it out.

Sigh.

WaPo: Bush puts birth control opponent in charge of family planning office:
Susan Orr, most recently an associate commissioner in the Administration for Children and Families, was appointed Monday to be acting deputy assistant secretary for population …

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WaPo: Bush puts birth control opponent in charge of family planning office:
Susan Orr, most recently an associate commissioner in the Administration for Children and Families, was appointed Monday to …