Eugene Robinson wrote a scathing column on the State Children's Health Insurance Program and Bush under the headline of Bush's Veto Lies:
To say that George W. Bush spends money like a drunken sailor is to insult every gin-soaked patron of every dockside dive in every dubious port of call. If Bush gets his way, the cost of his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will soon reach a mind-blowing $600 billion. Despite turning a budget surplus into a huge deficit, the man still hasn't met a tax cut he doesn't like. And when the Republicans were in charge of Congress, Bush might as well have signed their pork-stuffed spending bills with a one-word rubber stamp: "Whatever."
So for Bush to get religion on fiscal responsibility at this late date is, well, a joke. And for him to make his stand on a measure that would have provided health insurance to needy children is a punch line that hasn't left many Republicans laughing.
On October 1, the Washington Post published Sebastian Mallaby's Bush's Unhealthy Veto. Bush's lies were apparent then.
National Public Radio aired a report on October 3 under the title What's Next for SCHIP Legislation?. You can listen to it here.
The misrepresentations continue from the President and his staff. Take a listen to this report from NPR.
Finally, Harold Myerson's Washingotn Post column punctured one more of Bush's ideological canards in Return of the Goldwater GOP:
So it is with health insurance today. We have a massive, competitive private sector that has decided it cannot turn a buck on millions of Americans of modest means or uncertain health. If there were a private-sector solution to the problem of 9 million uninsured American children, the private sector would have found it.The facts show the President is either lying or ignorant of what he vetoed, but less clear is how whether he thinks we are stupid or merely gullible.
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