All you need to know about how the President feels about providing health insurance to millions of American children can be summed up today by his press secretary:
“We won this round on SCHIP.” – Dana Perino
And she says it with some sort of self congratulatory grin, as if the welfare of millions of kids in America was some sort of game to them.
So good for you President Bush. You “won”.
Here are the numbers from the most recent CBS poll on the subject:
WOULD YOU FAVOR OR OPPOSE EXPANDING S-CHIP?
Favor 81%
Oppose 15%WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO PAY MORE TAXES TO EXPAND S-CHIP? (Among those who favor expanding S-CHIP)
Yes 74%
No 17%
Republicans can try all they want to cast this as some sort of game. The fact is real people are the ones affected, and we’re all disgusted.
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