senate is debating Children's health funding----repugs calling it an

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entitlement program and socialized medicine.. The plan is pay-go!
http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan2_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS2

[LittleClarkie]

1. Who's bill is it?

And why do Republicans hate children? (sniff, sniff)

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3. Kent conrad was up there explaning it. It is a DEM bill.

[LittleClarkie]

18. Figured that.

But there are a couple people pushing kid's health care at the mo'. Kerry's one. Maybe I'll go see who the co-sponsors are.

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10. they just called it the Baccus bill

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2. E. Dole talking--saying NC tobacco will suffer---called this bill Irresponsible

[cynatnite]

6. Yeah, financing cancer sticks is more important than children's health...

:sarcasm:

I can't stand that woman. :puke:

[TwilightGardener]

4. Liddy compares tobacco to corn and cattle for other states--

yep, nicotine addiction is as worthy as nutrition. Good one!

[rodeodance]

7. idiot

[Vinca]

16. I loved how she was carping about all the manufacturing jobs

that have disappeared in North Carolina. Excuse me, Liddy dear, what have you done to stop the idiotic trade agreements we've entered into? The woman drives me nuts.

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5. whow. Dole is still yacking about loss of tobacco cause of the tax

[TwilightGardener]

9. Yes, poor people should be aided in their purchase of tobacco.

That's pretty much what the tobacco companies want, isn't it?

[peace13]

8. These people are creepy.

They will spend money they don't have to kill people but they won't gamble on the life of a child. Too sad. Peace, Kim

[SoCalDem]

11. Damn RIGHT.. I am a citizen of this country,. I pay taxes. I AM entitled

to certain things.
This is a RICH country, and we ARE entitled to some basic rights here..

It's hard to have Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness when you are sick, unemployed, homeless and hungry.

I see our elected leaders living lives of ENTITLEMENT,... why not the people who PAY them?

[walldude]

23. Only in GOP LaLa land are kids not "entitled" to decent health care

These idiots are handing out free campaign commercials for the Dems, lets hope they don't go to waste.

[TwilightGardener]

12. I'm going to love watching Repubs try to argue against insuring kids.

You go, GOPers! That's a winning issue!

[damntexdem]

17. Hey, we already coddle kids too much.

I say: send them back where they came from!

;-)

[cynatnite]

19. Besides...they're not voters... ;) n/t

[TwilightGardener]

22. I think denying poor kids health care is a logical first step in correcting

our tendency to spoil and overindulge. After that, it's on to eliminating the reduced/free school lunch program--why should these little parasites get a hot lunch? It'll just make them soft and pampered.

[TwilightGardener]

13. Bob Casey doing a good job of knocking out the GOP talking points, preemptively.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

14. Love Bob Casey (D-PA)'s prop--white booklet with blue lettering explaining Senate healthplan

How many other Democrats will use it in soundbytes for the media's cameras?

[damntexdem]

15. Why, we can't have entitled children in this country.

Give them healthcare, and next thing they'd expect adequate food, too.

And after that, they might expect not to be left behind in education.

[gatorboy]

20. Then what is Medicare?

It fucking kills me how obtuse these people are.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

21. IMO McConnell's alternative 'Kids First' Bill wd better be called the 'Tobacco First' Bill

Does the Tobacco Institute still exist? Who really wrote the bill McConnell introduced?

You know a bill can't be very good when Orrin Hatch stands with most Democrats against it, and the bill would cancel months of bipartisan compromises.

[Old and In the Way]

24. $12BB a month for an Iraq War no one wants, but investing in our children's healthcare?

That's bad policy? I love it....keep defending the indefensible, Republics!