During debate on the SCHIP children's health care legislation today, Rep. Stark stated: "You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement."Aside from Stark's inability to structure an intelligible English sentence, this sort of rhetoric has become typical of the ad hominem invective that's projectile-vomited from the left side of the aisle nearly every day that the current Congress is in session.
Up for renewal this year, SCHIP was initially designed to provide health care to truly indigent children, as defined by poverty-level family income. The current iteration of SCHIP, designed by the 'Rats to purchase votes in 2008, raised the ante by boosting the eligible income level to encompass not only all children of middle class families, but to qualify kids whose family income could easily be defined as lower-level rich.
Most Repubs are not actually against renewing SCHIP, nor is Bush. But extending subsidized health care to pampered kids in the Hamptons, as the Democrats would like, is just a tad impecunious, dontja think? Not to mention the idiocy of raising taxes on the middle class so that Democrat politicians can hand them (some of) their own money back when they take their kids to the doc.
Chastened by last years' election disasters, in which they were pummelled due to their own impecuniousness (and NOT due to Iraq), Republicans seem to be learning their lesson: they backed the President on this one.
Obviously, this now-failed Democrat SCHIP revision was intended stealth-socialism meant to get us used to the Feds covering more and more people for health care via increased tax dollars. This kind of incremental sneakiness is how the left has been successfully ruining our culture, our educational system, our courts, and our arts for the last 60 years. Why should they stop now?
As we've said before, the Democrats are a party that has fundamentally ceased to be serious. They behave like children, "reason" like children, and, when they don't get their own way, have temper tantrums like children. There are days when you'd like to whack their ample derrières with a paddle. But they've already, ah, flanked us on that old-fashioned remedy, having effectively banned corporal punishment years ago.
Many centuries ago, the Trojans were warned to be wary of Greeks bearing gifts. Times and nations have changed, and that admonition should be updated: Be wary of Democrats who use the word "fair" or the employ the phrase "for the children." And check your wallets.
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