ProteinWisdom offers some examples of how the left is framing President Bush's SCHIP veto:
"I disagreed with the president's position because he wants to leave out all the children." Dennis Kucinich, Democrat Presidential candidate
"We're holding these members of Congress accountable for standing with President Bush and against our children." Noah Winer, head of MoveOn.org's health care campaign.
"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." Congressman Pete Stark
"Why does President Bush hate American kids?" Keith Olbermann host of MSNBC's Countdown
As each of these men knows, the President actually wants to increase, not cut, the number of children covered by the program, but he wants to keep the focus of coverage on children in the lowest rungs of the middle class. The Democrats want taxpayers to pick up the coverage of millions of children who are already covered by private insurance. The President wants to expand SCHIP by 5 billion dollars, the Democrats by 35 billion.
Over this disagreement his opponents are willing to say the kinds of things that are quoted above.
It really is sad that the public debate can't be conducted with more integrity than this.
RLC
