President Vetoes SCHIP
President Bush is trying to score points with the insurance companies and with fiscal conservatives. Sure just last week he asked for $190 Billion for the War in Iraq and Afghanistan. That was showing fiscal restrain but expanding coverage to more poor children and paying for the increase with a tax on cigarettes is crazy. I thinking if you are going to veto a bill you should do it out in public. There should be a big ceremony if you are that proud of vetoing a bill. There was no ceremony because President Bush knows a ceremony would equal an immediate override by the House and Senate.
Many of the president’s facts are wrong. Misinformation is one of the biggest tools of the right. Here are the facts.
Vetoing this bill was wrong. Simply wrong.
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From WaPo:
President Bush vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have renewed and expanded the state-federal health insurance program for low-income children, delivering on his threat to block a measure he has said is too costly and could lead to excessive government control of the health-care system.
Bush vetoed the measure shortly before leaving this morning on a brief trip here, where he defended the veto in a speech to several hundred business leaders about his efforts to hold the line on federal spending. The White House has sought to make fiscal discipline a broad element of its legislative strategy this fall. (more…)
