Bush Regulation Changes Threaten Medicaid for Kids

Two of the prime characteristics of stupid people and arrogant people is that a) they never learn and b) they never change either their beliefs or their actions no matter how often objective evidence proves them wrong. The prime characteristic of the modern Republican is an abysmal lack of any emotion...

Fail

The showdown, or at least the opening act of it, is over.  The dust has settled.  And the Democrats have failed again. The battle for the $35 Billion expansion of the SCHIP program has sparked some impressive fireworks, the least of which being those centered around the Frost Family.  At its heart, the...

Lower Than Low

A new Reuters/Zogby poll provides some particularly bad news for the president.  At a time when presidential approval numbers were as low as believed possible, the President has actually managed to drop even further, his new approval rating an abysmal 24%. I don’t think it particularly difficult to...

Bush’s Ugly Veto (UPDATE)

Ah… Remember the good old days when Bush supported aggressively pursuing health care coverage for underpriveleged children? I do. Whatever happened to that? The program in question, SCHIP, is one of those programs one would think is next to impossible to oppose. It provides health insurance for those...