Child Like
October 18th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Sure the Children’s Health Insurance Bill got vetoed. But at least our leaders in Washington debated this important issue with the utmost intelligence and respect.
To wit, we give you U.S. Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), who had this to say today before the House’s unsuccessful attempt to override the president’s CHIP veto: “We don’t have the money to fund the war or the 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.“
Subtle.
The liberal group Campaign for America’s Future, which breathlessly sent out a statement immediately after the vote that read in part, “156 House Members declared themselves enemies of children and families.” Very subtle.
Not to be outdone, some Republicans have been flinging misleading assertions like fleeing crooks dropping banana peels.
The White House keeps insisting the CHIP bill it vetoed would have opened the program to families earning as much as $83,000 a year. Not true. No state offers CHIP to families with incomes that high. New York did try — asking the feds for an income waiver, but the administration turned them down. OK, counters the White House, but a future administration could approve the waiver.
The word “could” is a marvelous device, isn’t it? Justin Timberlake could be the next president and, sure, he could approve the New York waiver. But none of that has anything to do with the CHIP bill.
Then there’s our own Texas Rep. Joe Barton, who said today that the CHIP bill could cover illegal immigrants. There’s a tiny, almost minuscule problem with that statement: the bill specifically bars illegal immigrants from accessing CHIP.
No matter, says Barton, it’s so easy to obtain a fake social security number that thousands of illegals would obtain CHIP coverage, even though it’s not allowed. Fool proof, Joe.
If it’s that hard to determine who is a citizen, then we have bigger problems, don’t we Joe?
All which makes us think the elected folks in Washington are the ones acting like children… children with excellent health coverage.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
“There’s a tiny, almost minuscule problem with that statement: the bill specifically bars illegal immigrants from accessing CHIP.”
Thats great Dave, except you are wrong. Since 1-1-07 adult illegal aliens in Texas have been using CHIP money. Its called CHIP Peri-natal. So I guess illegal aliens are getting a lot of things they aren’t supposed to get, huh?
Besides if Texas is breaking the law by givimg illegal aliens in-state-tuition, what would stop Texas from allowing illegals access to any benefit they wanted to give them. Once you start breaking the law….where exactly do you stop?