Before the SCHIP vote today in the House, Rep. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) displayed a sign with his new name for SCHIP - “Socialized Clinton-style Hillarycare for Illegals and their Parents”:
H/T to Sadly No!, who notes:
Guys, you’ve done outdone yerselves on this one. Please, please, please keep insulting middle-class families who can’t afford health insurance. I guarantee […]
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There are no words to express the disgust I feel over this news: The House failed to garner enough votes to override Bush’s SCHIP veto this afternoon.
The vote to override the veto was 273 to 156, or 13 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority of those present and voting; the bill was originally approved by a […]
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I think it’s fairly safe to say that a majority of those who put in place our Constitution and signed our Declaration of Independence were Christians. But they understood democracy as something more than plurality. And they saw the sacred as a concern for the individual conscience, not the consensus of a committee, no matter how large or well intentioned that committee might be. The individual conscience, with its own freely chosen concept of Creation, outside the coercive authority of government, even a democratic one: They saw this as the core truth in their understanding of freedom. In my estimation, they got that one right.
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“Y’know, if Osama bin Laden is calling, if he calls to order a pizza and says deliver the pizza to cave 56 in Bora Bora, that’s something we ought to know at that minute.” - Republican Representative Roy Blunt.
I’m not kidding. Here it is in context, from yesterday’s debate in the House on renewing FISA.
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Will it be a a none of the above election in 2008? Actually, it might seem that way-especially if the Dems nominate Hillary. I know I know national polls don’t mean much at this stage of the game insofar as the nomination process goes (remember Democratic front runner Howard Dean in fall 2003?). Still let’s assume […]
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Politico had a piece on the value of John Kerry’s endorsement of an ‘08 presidential candidate on Tuesday, that made a few points that I have made here in the past and added some snark, that we could have done without. Here’s a few quips:
Whither John F. Kerry?
He is his party’s most recent presidential nominee. He came […]
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