Twelve-year-old to do response to * on health insurance issue

Democrats Recruit a 12-Year-Old to Combat Bush on Kids' Health

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- A 12-year-old boy who received life- saving care through U.S.-subsidized health insurance will speak for Democrats tomorrow in their response to President George W. Bush's weekly radio address.

Democrats chose Graeme Frost of Baltimore, instead of the lawmakers or governors who usually provide the party's Saturday- morning broadcast, to press what they see as a political advantage from Bush's vow to veto expansion of a kids' health- care program.

Congress is sending to Bush legislation, given final approval yesterday, that would add $35 billion over five years to the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Bush, who calls the measure a step toward ``federalization'' of health care, will veto the legislation even though Republican lawmakers in close re-election campaigns will come under pressure if they stand by him, Bush press secretary Dana Perino said today.

``No doubt that it's difficult, especially politically'' when ``there are advertisements running in your district saying that you don't care about children, which is preposterous,'' Perino told reporters at the White House. ``They have to think about the principles here.''

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Bravo, Graeme Frost! :applause:

up. I just saw her staged signing of SCHIP surrounded by babies and children. It looks childish and stupid. We are not in Kindergarten. We are quite capable of judging her performance and are not dumb enough to fall for using children as props.

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Sorry your sensibilities are offended, but pulling out all the stops may be necessary to shame this compassionate-less president and these republic congress critters. Why not dramatize a problem that is absolutely solvable and that the American public wants a solution to? If it takes drama to get action, then so be it. Which is more important? Your sensibilities, or the health care for millions more children of the working poor?

The following is from RedState (don't go there....cooties)

"The House passed its SCHIP bill on Tuesday night and the Senate followed suit yesterday. So why won't congressional Democrats send the bill to President Bush? House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told National Journal that Democrats "might hold onto the bill over the weekend."

Could it be that they're trying to delay an inevitable veto from Bush until Monday? That's when the Service Employees International Union is staging a protest at the White House. "We must say no to Bush's veto and yes to children's healthcare!" an e-mail from the Center for American Progress announced yesterday.

Tax-and-spend liberals will be gathering at McPherson Square and the corner of 14th and K Streets at 10 a.m. Monday. The march will proceed to the White House, "where children from across the country will deliver red wagons carrying mail bags filled with petitions signed by more than 1 million Americans."

Of course, having Bush's veto delayed until Monday would make the protest all the more dramatic for the media."

Well, she is accurate about that. The goppers dogmatic clinging to "principles has blinded them to the fact that reality doesn't always respond to their unctuous, punitive "principles". They could at least understand they are more like "guidelines".

But I guess it doesn't actually matter how they rationalize their evil selfishness. The goal of getting all the money and power is all they really care about anyway.