Bush vetoes health care for children as "too costly", but asks for another $200 Billion for Iraq

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Wednesday October 03, 2007 · 8:03 AM PDT

2007/10/03 · 08:03

As expected, President Bush, who initially sold himself to the American people as a "compassionate conservative", has vetoed health care for uninsured children.

President Bush, in a confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance.

. . .

The White House sought as little attention as possible, with the president wielding his veto behind closed doors without any fanfare or news coverage.

The State Children's Health Insurance Program is a joint state-federal effort that subsidizes health coverage for 6.6 million people, mostly children, from families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford their own private coverage.

The Democrats who control Congress, with significant support from Republicans, passed the legislation to add $35 billion over five years to allow an additional 4 million children into the program.

And what was Bush's excuse for denying health care coverage to millions of needy children?

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Tuesday April 17, 2007 · 12:06 PM PDT

2007/04/17 · 12:06

Bush has announced that he'll be appearing/speaking at a memorial service for the victims of the horrific Virginia Tech shootings.

He found the time to do the same for those killed in the Columbia shuttle disaster.

And yet, Bush hasn't been able to find the time to attend even one funeral service for any of the thousands of Americans killed in the war in Iraq.

Funny how that works.

(more on the flip)

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Wednesday April 11, 2007 · 9:07 AM PDT

2007/04/11 · 09:07

Up until only a few months ago, the GOP was in control of both the Executive and Legislative branches of government, and they are still in control of the Executive. Well, this is what happens when the political party controlling government is based on an ideological belief that government isn't good for anything . . . (more below the fold)

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 7:43 AM PST

2006/12/01 · 07:43

N.Y. Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer shows that he intends to walk it like he talks it and has announced a plan to unilaterally enforce ethical and campaign contirubtion reforms on himself and his staff. This is excellent stuff.

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Friday October 13, 2006 · 8:53 AM PDT

2006/10/13 · 08:53

Yet more evidence that Bush/Cheney have essentially given up on truly stabilizing Iraq (remember, they have already stopped funding for most reconstruction projects):

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Iraq Carnage Continues - 2,667 Civilians Killed In Baghdad in Sept.

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Wednesday October 11, 2006 · 10:58 AM PDT

2006/10/11 · 10:58

The horrific carnage in Iraq continues unabataed - indeed, it just seems to be getting worse. The Assoctaed Press is now reporting that more than 2,660 CIVILIANS were killed in Baghdad in the month of September, 2006.

That's civilians.

In Baghdad, alone.

In one month.

And it's getting worse, all the time.

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The GOP Pedophilia Scandal - part of a broader narrative

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Tuesday October 03, 2006 · 1:50 PM PDT

2006/10/03 · 13:50

From a DCCC email:

Last Friday, Republican Congressman Mark Foley of Florida abruptly resigned his congressional seat amid questions surrounding his inappropriate emails with a former teenage House page. While House Republican leaders had known about this situation for months, they had done nothing.
Parents across the country are more concerned than ever about protecting their children from such online predators, but the Republican leadership did the unthinkable and demonstrated that they cared more
about protecting one of their own incumbents than young people who had been entrusted to their care. These actions have gone beyond just an abuse of power into a betrayal of trust that strikes at a parent's worst fear.

Not bad. Now what we all really need to keep in mind is that this Republican Congressional child-sex scandal is only one part of a larger storyline.

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How to Lose a War 101: An Iraqi civil war has already begun

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 9:33 AM PST

2006/03/07 · 09:33

I think it's pretty clear that a civil war in Iraq isn't just a possibility, it's already happening and it's been going on for awhile. It may not have reached maximum violence potential, but you don't need to have traditional, large scale battles like Antietam or Gettysburg to have a civil war . . . especially when a large scale, American Civil War-style conflict is basically impossible there at the moment (no one side of the Iraqi sectarian conflict is presently capable of fielding a "traditional" army of hundreds of thousands), and guerilla tactics have proven to be more effective then conventional warfare, anyway.

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Disinformation, distortion and mud-slinging decided the election - not "values"

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Monday November 08, 2004 · 7:53 PM PST

2004/11/08 · 19:53

Even as most of the mainstream media demeans the results of election exit polls showing that John Kerry received more votes than Bush did, they unabashedly trumpet the accuracy of those same polls insofar as they show that "values" was allegedly the deciding factor for many voters.

What the mainstream media is conveniently ignoring is that the evidence reliably shows that it wasn't "values" which swung the election Bush's way, but rather disinformation, distortion and mud-slinging on a scale rarely seen in a Presidential election. Of course, the mainstream media's reluctance to discuss this isn't really so surprising when one considers the extent to which said media was complicit in Bush's use of those tactics to mold opinion and control the flow of information to the American people. Read More

Al-Qaqaa was just the tip of the iceberg

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Saturday October 30, 2004 · 10:10 AM PDT

2004/10/30 · 10:10

As these articles so depressingly point out, Al-Qaqaa was just the tip of the iceberg. Munitions dumps and weapon/explosive storage areas all over Iraq were left unguarded due to lack of sufficient troop strength and the lack of any coherent post-invasion plan to deal with this glaring and menacing problem.

Unfortunately, all too many elements of the main stream press are focusing solely on Al Qaqaa and are missing the larger point - namely, that what went on at Al-Qaqaa was far from unique and was rather part of an indemic problem brought on by Bush's incompetence and negligence . . . incompetence and negligence which is endangering the lives of our troops.

Obviously, the mainstream media needs to be contacted and shown the light on this subject - ideally before the Sunday morning talk shows. Read More

Reporter with 101st says Al Qaqaa had not yet been looted when they arrived

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Wednesday October 27, 2004 · 9:52 PM PDT

2004/10/27 · 21:52

In a report on Fox News on October 26, 2004, reporter Dana Lewis (now with Fox News, but with NBC at the time of the Iraq invasion), who was embedded with the 101st Airborne when it arrived at the Al Qaqaa facility in April, 2003, told Brit Hume that he toured through said facility, that it had not yet been looted at that point and that most of the bunkers he saw were still locked. Read More

Insider trading at Sinclair?

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Tuesday October 19, 2004 · 1:36 PM PDT

2004/10/19 · 13:36

Looks like someone over at Sinclair has been very, very naughty . . .

This just in from U.S. Newswire:

Sinclair Broadcasting Shareholders Demand Officers Return Profits From Insider Trading

Conf. Call Today 1 PM ET

10/19/2004 10:53:00 AM

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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Julie Wolk or Alex Howe, 202 822-5200 News Advisory:

Telephone News Conference at 1 p.m. EDT Today

SINCLAIR BROADCASTING SHAREHOLDERS DEMAND OFFICERS RETURN PROFITS FROM INSIDER TRADING

Officers Who Ordered Stations to Show Anti-Kerry Film Also Sold Stocks at High Mark, then Drove Values Down

DETAILS:

Famed shareholder attorney William S. Lerach will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. today to discuss insider self-dealing by officers of Sinclair Broadcasting, the Baltimore-based television chain that is forcing its affiliates to show a propaganda film that attacks presidential candidate John Kerry. He will release a set of demands aimed at making Sinclair executives disgorge millions of dollars in unjustified profits taken out of the firm when stock prices were high during the past 12 months. Yesterday the company's stock fell a further 8 percent after being down more than 50 percent from the year's beginning, as advertisers pulled back to avoid the station's self-generated political controversy. Lerach and Patrick Daniels, San Diego-based partners in Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman Robbins, the nation's most successful securities litigation firm, will discuss actions it will take against Sinclair. Lerach Coughlin is a 140-member firm with offices in nine cities that has prosecuted hundreds of shareholder class action and derivative lawsuits, recovering more than $25 billion for clients. (For more on the firm go to: http://www.lerachlaw.com)

WHO:

Bill Lerach and Patrick Daniels, attorneys for Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman Robbins LLP

WHAT:

Telephone Press Conference

WHEN:

1 p.m. EDT

Call-in at 800-362-0595. ID is "Lerach-Sinclair"

http://www.usnewswire.com/

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