Republicans Hold Children's Health Care Hostage

Posted by Cliff Schecter at 6:17 AM on September 26, 2007.

This post, written by Cliff Schecter, originally appeared on Cliff Schecter's Blog

The SCHIP reauthorization, which provides funding for health care for needy and sick children, passed the House by a 265 to 159 vote yesterday.

The problem is that if my math skills are still with me, 291 votes will be needed to overcome President Compassionate Conservative's veto so more kids can die due to lack of vaccinations and such.

I frankly don't think anyone voting against this can call themselves a human being. But the six Democrats who voted against it (surprise, surprise, the same six who have voted to gut the Constitution, support torture, support stayin in Iraq until 2079, etc.) should literally, and I mean it, be thrown out of the party.

We don't need them. And I am not one who has been part of the Bush Dog Democrat hunt for the most part, as I look at the Dems overall as that much better than the GOP. But these six are simply disgraceful human beings.

Hint: Miscreants - votes like these are the very reason the Democratic Party was founded. So Etheridge, Boren, Taylor, Hill and the gang, go to a very warm place where there ain't no shade.

As for the so-called moderate Republicans who opposed this, this is example 17,893 of why there is no such thing as a moderate Republican wing anymore (it was Lincoln Chafee post-2000...now it's gone). The Rockefeller wing, or moderate wing of the GOP, routinely opposed conservatives to support measures such as these in the past (see 1964 Civil Rights Act).

Let's hope that somehow the Dems get those additional votes. Otherwise they should keep introducing this bill every couple of months until it passes, attacking Republicans all along the way for being the profiteering whores that they are.

Tagged as: congress, democrats, republicans, health care, schip

Cliff Schecter blogs at Brave New Films.