"Woe unto he who harms one of these little ones"
'Nuff said about MR.Bush.........

Sot they can't keep the same lying story straight or come up with more than one version of it? Why am I not surprised? If it was their children who didn't have health insurance, you can beat these government officials would find a way to make the taxpayers pay for it.

I would like to know what planet you are from if you think the republicans can tell the truth. And do you also think they care about children. Only if they are fighting and dieing for there oil wars.

Just sit back and watch the Republicans dig their own grave - it just amazes me - just when you think it can't get worse it does. I have a feeling there will be enough votes to override Mr. Bush's veto - although, watching the Republicans the other night, not one said they would vote for the program - it truly is unbelievable and embarrassing what is going on with this administration and their supporters - I can truly say being of Jewish heritage I now understand how Hitler had his supporters -

If Democrats in Congress want President Bush to sign the bill for SCHIP, why include a tax increase to trigger a veto? To moderate voters, this looks like Democrats just want to play politics and raise taxes. The better policy as well as politics would have been to find the money for SCHIP by reducing other spending.

"Why include a tax increase to trigger a veto?
Because SCHIP needs the money for kids who need the medical treatment.
The federal budget has been reduced in so many areas that government services and maintenance of infrastructure are underfunded. Those many programs are also in need of increases in funding.
The only things in the Bush administration that is really getting full funding is the "war" in Iraq, and the payments to the no-bid war profiteering contractors.
Reducing those two area would most definitely trigger a veto, and non of the lock-step Republicans will stand up to the Bushiato and support the measure to override those proposals.
Since we are closing in on an election year, we might pick up Republican votes to override an SCHIP bill veto.

Once again the politics of fear are being implemented by the extreme right.
Bush claims that SCHIP is a slippery slope to nationalized healthcare and rationing of care.
THAT ALREADY EXISTS IN THIS COUNTRY
Only those that can afford more chemo treatments, or more mental health care visits than their insurance will pay for can get the care they need.
I thought at first that maybe just maybe the President's comments regarding SCHIP just showed he was out of touch. No, it just shows that the extreme right, the neocons, only care about the elite, wealthy few. They practise social Darwinism...only the few survive at the expense of the many. You know "he who dies with the most toys wins." This is the height of hypocrisy as they all claim to be "good, compassionate Christians." I will say it again..The Christian Right is Neither!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
AUGUST 8, 2007
3:32 PM

CONTACT: Senator Bernie Sanders
Michael Briggs (202) 224-5141 or michael_briggs@sanders.senate.gov

Earth to Bush: The Middle Class is Shrinking

CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 8 - Senator Bernie Sanders said the latest claims by President Bush about “our thriving economy” are further evidence that he is totally out of touch with the realities facing America’s shrinking middle class.

“What planet is he living on? I am sick and tired of the president telling us how great the economy is when every working American knows that is not true,” Sanders said. “The millionaires and billionaires he showered with special tax breaks may be making out alright, but the Bush economy has been a disaster for everyone else.”

The president’s comments came at the conclusion of a meeting with economic advisors at the U.S. Department of Treasury. Sanders was in Vermont for a week-long, statewide series of meetings on jobs and public works needs in economically hard-pressed communities.

“While the president tells us how the economy is ‘thriving,’ the American people understand how wrong he is,” Sanders added. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, he noted, found that more than two-thirds of Americans believe the U.S. economy is either in recession now or will be in the next year.

Since the president took office, Sanders added, 5.4 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty; nearly seven million Americans have lost their health insurance; median household income has gone down by nearly $1,300; three million manufacturing jobs have been lost; the real earnings of college graduates have gone down by about 5 percent; entry level wages for male and female high school graduates have fallen by 3.3 percent and 4.9 percent, respectively; and three million American workers have lost their pensions.

Home foreclosures are now the highest on record; the personal savings rate is lower than at any time since before the Great Depression; wages and salaries are at the lowest share of gross domestic product since 1929; and the top 300,000 Americans now earn nearly as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans combined.

A member of the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders has cited the president’s disconnect with economic reality in opposing confirmation of former Rep. Jim Nussle to be the White House budget director. The Senate has scheduled three hours of debate on the Nussle nomination as the first order of business when Congress reconvenes on September 4.

It's not surprising that this should happen. The Administration spends more time on Republican web sites pushing their agenda than doing the work they were elected to do. How else can one explain the loss of 200,000 e-mails written on company time, but not recorded as company business. And while I like former President Bush and pray for his family, I can't fail to remember that "rich bitch" was a characterization used by one of the family against a Democratic woman candidate during another election. Also, we might shed a tear not only for the reported sadness that he feels about comments on the present President, but this country that must be in a recession if the administration claims that we will "have a soft landing". All in all, things now-a-days are not as they appear. The earth is "flat" though we know it's still round, the economy is wonderful while housing is built just for millionaires and billionaires, bad mortgages sold to unwitting home buyers are bundled into bond packages bought by banks etc. which now have worthless paper. We expect the Democratic party to do in 6 months what it took 6 years for Congress to undo. Maybe we should shed a few tears for these things also.

I, for one, don't expect the Democrats to undo what it's taken the Bushiato to screw up in 6 years.
HOWEVER I get damn angry when I see the Republi-lite sell-outs caving in to the Bushiato and working against not only their own party, but their constituents, who elected Democrats into office to FIX the mess, not contribute to it!

How can we let all the people know what this will do to childrens Insurance? A lot of poor people don't have a computer and a lot of people don't follow the DNC Blogs. Do we have one Nation Wide
News Station that will print or Broadcast the truth?

Since there are computers that show up in second hand stores that are internet capable and only cost a few dollars, don't suppose all poor people don't have internet capability.
There are computers in libraries and some coffee shops that are available to the public. Libraries are usually free, the coffee shops are either free or a couple of dollars an hour.
I also know of at least one reservation, where the elders are collecting old computers so their kids can get on the internet.
Don't think poor people are computer illiterate.
The ones who are on the net can and usually do spread the word.
Word of mouth has always been a great way to spread the word about important issues. Yeah, it's a radical concept, but talking to people actually works.

BTW: A lot of areas have public access channels on the net.
These channels are usually looking for people who want to get on and talk.
If you have a computer you probably have presentation software. Microsoft Office, Star Office, and Open Office all have presentation software.
If you don't have presentation software, you can Google Open Office, and download for free. The beauty of it is that you can read and save in Microsoft Office format as well as Open Office format so you can send it to anyone.
Write up a speech, put the key points in the presentation slides, and contact your public access channel for how to get scheduled on their station.

I think Butte makes some good points about alternative methods of communication that are available. I am concerned, however, about elderly people who have always received their news on the TV -- which used to be free -- and the news was generally done with some degree of journalistic integrity. Some elderly people embrace technology, but many do not. I fear that they are not being adequately informed, and this is wrong because there is no excuse for any group to be denied accurate information.

In my community, broadcast basic runs around $29, and the next tier in cable is a total of $59. Either is difficult to manage on a fixed income. In time slots and stations where news should be, the $59 tier gets you Nancy Grace; Prison Lockup that seems to run all night; FAUX News; and Headline News and CNN that lately have been competing to deliver the most sordid sex stories -- while pretending shock -- or the most bloody violence in graphic detail. When so much important news needs to be told, why are we again getting repeats of Scott Peterson and Anna Nicole's breast implants? Our TV offerings were bounced down to only one C-SPAN and that usually is about Republican activites on the campaign trail.

Getting back to access to information, mobility is also a problem for the elderly or infirm to get to libraries and other areas that have Internet access -- even if they had the inclination to learn the technology.

There are supposed to be programs in place to inform the people about SCHIP, but the results of that effort are pathetic. Some schools do a good job informing parents and students about SCHIP, while others push students into private plans that pay for nothing, but cost a lot considering what is offered.

Unfortunately I see the power of entrenched health care lobbiests, who are fighting to retain profits, to be a real detriment to a bold, innovative method to pay for and administer health care in the US.

Sorry for the length.

Congress Cannot Be Relied Upon To Defend Democracy

It is clear that both houses of the U.S. Congress cannot be relied upon to IMPEACH Bush and Cheney and secure both the best interest of the Common Population, the 70% majority working and poor class and culture, and continue democracy for the United States.

The only hope for democracy in the United States is for a mass uprising of the Common Population against the coming installation of an American MONARCH.

The Professional Class, a 20% minority, the so called, class in the middle, are tied so closely to the interests of the American ARISTOCRACY and U. S. MONARCHY, a 10% minority population, that the Professional Class will cooperate with and service a U.S. MONARCHY happily; so long as there is something in it for the Professional Class and the Elite Capitalist Class. The American ARISTOCRACY, a 10% minority, will happily serve an American MONARCHY for their own greedy benefit more so than the Professional Class; and the Professional Class will willingly cooperate with the American ARISTOCRACY out of their own self interest and greed.

The 70% majority Common Population will be the losers, if the American ARISTOCRACY and the Professional Class, a combined minority 30% population of the United States, are allowed to subvert democracy for the 70% majority Common Population of the United States, and impose an American MONARCHY on the 70% Common Population; the result will be suppression, oppression and tyranny of the Common Population by use of military force and martial law, and life for the 70% majority Common Population as a permanent UNDERCLASS with NO HOPE for better prospects.

The masses of the 70% majority Common Population MUST rise up against the establishment of an American MONARCHY in the United States, turn out on the streets in protest against the establishment of American MONARCHY in the United States, boycott the businesses and products of both the American ARISTOCRACY and Professional Class in protest against the establishment of American MONARCHY in the United States, and innundate both houses of the U.S. Congress with protest against the establishment of an American MONARCHY in the United States, and if rational protest by the 70% majority Common Population is not respected by those who would establish American MONARCHY in the United States, the 70% majority Common Population MUST prepare themselves to shed blood in the name of democracy in both civil disobedience and war, if necessary, against the forces of American MONARCHY that would destroy democracy in the United States.

The U.S. Congress and the Government of the United States cannot be relied upon to stand against the establishment of American MONARCHY in the United States, both are cooperating and will continue to cooperate for their own greedy self interest.

WE THE PEOPLE, the 70% majority Common Population, secured democracy for the United States in a Revolutionary War against Britain and WE THE PEOPLE, the masses of the Common Population, MUST rise up and secure democracy once more from the forces of American MONARCHY and ARISTOCRACY that are seeking to subvert democracy for the 70% majority Common Population in the United States at the present time.

The masses of the Common Population turning out in protest against Bush and Cheney's pursuit of the establishment of American MONARCHY in the United States, along with the masses of the Common Population turning out on the streets and calling for the IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH AND CHENEY, and their whole subsversive administration, and all that has been done by the Bush administration to subvert democracy and establish an American MONARCHY, MUST HAPPEN if WE THE PEOPLE, the Common Population of the United States, are to secure the blessings of democracy for ourselves and our posterity.

The Congress of the United States and the U.S. Government can be relied upon to welcome American MONARCHY in their own greedy self interest.

It is solely up to the masses of the 70% majority Common Population of the United States to secure democracy for the 70% majority Common Population of the United States. If there is mass protest by the 70% majority Common Population of the United States against the American ARISTOCRACY and the Professional Class that are subverting democracy in the United States in an effort to install an American MONARCHY, the American ARISTOCRACY and Professional Class will be scared to proceed with the establishment of an American MONARCHY in the United States, because both the American ARISTOCRACY and the Professional Class will weigh and consider what they both stand to lose if their efforts come down to an arms struggle against the 70% majority Common Population.

It is sad indeed when a president gets impeached for lying about his infidelity...which, while regrettable, is hardly anybody's business other his wife. Now we have a president who has rigged elections, fought an illegal war for his own profit, lied on so many occassions to the public that it's damn near impossible to count, gave billions of tax relief to those who don't need it and overtaxed those who do, fired prosectors illegally, and Im sure there's much more. The Democrats need to make a stand for the first time in close to a decade. The Right wing has perverted and twisted republican policies until they are no longer recognizable as repbulican. i remember when republicans wanted government small, efficient and out of our bedrooms. Now, the (non)Christian-Right wingers think that abortion needs to be debated again (wasn't that taken care of over 30 years ago?), gay's are supposed to be our business (who really cares and why is this our business?), and that health for all is somehow anti-american, communistic propoganda. I used to be a Republican, but what ever happened to the social liberals and fiscal conserves?

"What happened to social liberals and fiscal conservatives?"
It's called K-street and the corporate lobbyists. They are trying to buy off Democrats the way they did the Republican party.
Way too many of these Republi-lite sell-outs believe like Hillary said in a debate, that "K-street speaks for the American people".
Hell NO!!!! It most certainly does NOT!
While there are citizen's groups who lobby, they usually have limited budgets, and therefore limited influence. It's the big money corporations that have the bucks to sway legislators and persuade them to turn their backs on the people who elected them.
These Republi-lite sell-outs are the poster children for campaign reform and lobbying reform, and the reason the DNC needs to lose the extremely Republi-lite DLC, and stop kissing up to K-street.
We need to bring the Democratic party back to its base!

Binary Framed Emotional Rhetoric or Propaganda

Winner or Loser
For or Against
Good or Bad
Right or Wrong
Black or White
Love or Hate
Fear or Safety
Secure or Insecure
Up or Down
Forwards or Backwards

All of the above are a few examples of binary framing and binary framing used as EMOTIONAL RHETORIC IS PROPAGANDA, which is being used by the Right and the Republicans Lite to force the Congress and or the general population to have no other choice in a dynamic choice world of innumerable choices, but to choose Right Wing Conservative REPUBLICAN choices.

The Conservatives push binary propaganda framing and continually press with their binary propaganda to get their NEW WORLD ORDER completed at the demise of the 70% Common Population. The General Population and all members of Congress, who are not on the NEW WORLD ORDER side, need to evaluate how they are being EMOTIONALLY pressed to vote. If there are only two choices, binary framing, the situation is being propagandized.

Schools do not train dynamically where children are encouraged to think and choose all the choices possible, and schools should train dynamically; but children are trained to binary thinking, "winner/loser propaganda", as if being a winner is the only way to win. We live in a dynamic world, if one way doesn't work, there are innumerable choices, NOT JUST TWO.

Whenever one finds themself placed in a position by others having to make up their mind emotionally about something based on only TWO choices of the way this or that, something, anything can or will be done -- they are being propagandized. Whenever you know this and start looking around, you will notice that almost everything has been propagandized. In our world today, between propaganda and distraction entertainment, there is hardly anything of value for the general population.

DNC Chairman, Governor Howard Dean is an example of dynamic thinking as Governor Dean did not fall prey to the "winner/loser propaganda" strategy promoted by the Right.

Yeah, Rubber-stamp Republican (non)Rep. Denny Rheburg has a piece in the Montana (sub)Standard this morning on how he didn't like the SCHIP legislation that got passed.
It pretty much said what the press releases linked to above said. Like I said, rubber-stamped.
I just wish that the DNC had supported Monica Lindeen in the last election so we would have been done with this jerk.
Montana needs a voice in the House, and we don't have one.