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KENNEDY ON THE PRESIDENT’S THREAT TO VETO SCHIP
Senator Edward M. Kennedy ^ | September 20, 2007 | Senator Edward M. Kennedy

Posted on 09/20/2007 3:27:53 PM PDT by mdittmar

WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to President Bush’s threat to veto the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

 

“This is a cruel threat to needy children and I urge the President to reconsider. It’s outrageous that there are nearly 9 million uninsured children in America and over 600,000 more since 2005. This Administration has failed on healthcare and our children are paying the price. Congress has been working in a bipartisan way to get a Children’s Health Insurance Program bill that will make quality health care available to children of working families. This bill will allow children to get the quality healthcare they deserve, and should be signed into law before the program expires next week. After watching hundreds of thousands of children lose their health coverage on his watch, it's incomprehensible that President Bush would veto the bill that fixes the problem.  This is a cruel threat to needy children and I urge the President to reconsider."

 


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 110th; liberalagenda; schip; tedkennedy; veto
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To: gridlock

You know, here in Phoenix, we lost the last 5 of 7 cops deaths to illegals killing them. Their kids are the ones that we wind up paying for with this lousy bill - no thanks. When first married we didn’t have alot of money, so we got hospital insurance only for our children and paid cash for our doctor visits...It’s called FREEDOM OF CHOICE and I am tired of HillaryCare, KennedyCare, no child left behind care, etc. This gov’t is WAY too big and its time to JUST SAY NO!


21 posted on 09/20/2007 4:02:31 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: mdittmar

Hey Ted!
You fund it.


22 posted on 09/20/2007 4:03:26 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mdittmar

My husband and I had to find a way to pay for the healthcare of our 3 kids.

Since when was anyone entitled to free healthcare?

We have a hard time paying for our own now. This is what is wrong with the USA.

As for the illegals, they need to be sent home to ask the Mexican people to figure out healthcare for Mexican citizens.

Why is it that these assh*les like Teddy think that people that are already are having a tough time making it should pay for people that are here illegally or those that refuse to work?


23 posted on 09/20/2007 4:11:07 PM PDT by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: mdittmar

24 posted on 09/20/2007 4:17:14 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: gridlock

Is castro still alive,I think someone is propping up teddy.


25 posted on 09/20/2007 4:24:13 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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To: mdittmar

Well, now that the great drunk (and drunken driver) has spoken, who are we minions to second guess his opinion?? /s


26 posted on 09/20/2007 5:00:31 PM PDT by ken in texas (come fold with us.... team #36120)
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To: sappy

BAM!!!Post of the day baby!


27 posted on 09/20/2007 5:01:42 PM PDT by packrat35 (PIMP my Senate. They're all a bunch of whores anyway!)
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To: mdittmar

President Bush, please remind me again why you ever thought a “new tone” would be possible with the felonious gasbag from Chappaquiddick???


28 posted on 09/20/2007 5:03:27 PM PDT by Enchante (Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
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To: mdittmar

Hey Ted, how’s Mary Jo doing? Oh, that’s right....


29 posted on 09/20/2007 5:05:21 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: DesScorp
'failed on healthcare'
30 posted on 09/20/2007 5:17:24 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: mdittmar

31 posted on 09/20/2007 5:27:21 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: mdittmar

Regarding most of Bush’s domestic agenda, I’ve never had many happy thoughts. Yet one of my supreme nightmares has folks telling me I see life the same way as that fat drunken blob from Massachusetts.


32 posted on 09/20/2007 6:26:37 PM PDT by stevem
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To: mdittmar
If Bush signs this bill there will be thousands of new needy children in the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua because the cigar industry of those countries will have been taxed out of existence.

I guess the "compassionate" Senator couldn't care less about those kids.

:-(
33 posted on 09/22/2007 5:26:38 PM PDT by cgbg (Smokers are the enemy of Hillary's socialist Utopia.)
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To: groanup; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; gonzo; Grampa Dave

34 posted on 09/22/2007 5:35:28 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: groanup
Thanks, pal. I had lost my copy of his lies during one of my moves.

Now if I can just find a copy of the first, and only, interview that he gave on the subject, to the Readers Digest, my files will be complete again.

I remember the interview as another pack-of-lies, but without a script .................. FRegards

35 posted on 09/22/2007 8:21:15 PM PDT by gonzo (My Mother never understood the irony of calling me a 'son-of-a-bitch' ...)
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To: PhilDragoo

LOL!

Perfect!


36 posted on 09/22/2007 10:45:35 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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