Waste Lives, Don’t Save Them
The Decider has a moral compass that is pointing in the wrong direction. He can't sign a bill to spend $35 billion over five years to provide health insurance for children who need it, potentially saving a number of lives, but has no problem spending four times that in one year on sending our soldiers to their graves. It looks like wasting lives is more important than saving them. Says the Decider:
“My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions,” Mr. Bush said, adding that he had come to “explain the philosophy behind some of the decisions I’ve made.”There he goes again, letting us know that he's the Decider. Little Georgie seems so proud of himself, being all grown up and able to make decisions on his own. If he were just a little bit more intelligent, he might even be able to make some good ones. Instead, he seems hell bent on doing the opposite of what's right every chance he gets. He's not alone, though. There are enough morons in Congress who still choose to side with him on some issues.
Republicans were confident they would hold their lawmakers together and uphold the president’s veto. They said they believed that, given the opportunity, they could explain their opposition based on the costs of the expansion and the unwarranted inclusion in the program of adults and by portraying it as a step toward government health care.Oh, no! Not government health care! What would happen to America if all of her citizens could be covered by medical insurance and be able to afford a trip to the hospital rather than dying at home because they can't afford insurance now? Seeing that sort of evil in America would surely mean that the terrorists have won! This is such a popular position, that the Decider did something quite special when vetoing the bill:
The veto, only the fourth of Mr. Bush’s presidency, is a politically difficult one for the president, and he issued it in private Wednesday morning, without the fanfare and White House ceremonies he has employed when rejecting embryonic stem cell legislation and an emergency war spending bill that set a deadline for troop withdrawal from Iraq.Ah, yeah, veto it in private so no one will notice. Unfortunately, it seems we are unable to get Phonetic George out of the Oval Office, even though he's long since met the requirements for impeachment. But I hope the voters of America will remember which members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, voted to deny health care to our children. And more importantly, if the veto stands because the House of Representatives can't override it, I hope Americans remember which members of Congress supported the Decider's veto. Make them pay for it in the next election.