He has a lot to answer for. I'll say it again: SHAME!WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Wednesday vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years.
Bush exercised the veto at 10 a.m. ET before leaving the White House for a trip to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to discuss the federal budget and taxes.
Democrats quickly took to the floor of the House of Representatives to condemn the veto of the bill that received bipartisan support.
"The president has rediscovered his long lost inner fiscally conservative self," said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, in a mocking tone. "After an orgy of borrowing, spending and misspending on many dubious things, his target? Ten million low-income kids."
House Democrats also were quick to compare the bill's $7 billion cost to the money spent each month on the Iraq war.
"The president and Republicans in Congress say that we can't afford this bill, but where were the fiscal conservatives when the president demanded hundreds of billions of dollars for the war in Iraq?" asked Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Illinois.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
For shame
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Shame on the Democrats. I receive e-mails on current issues from various Democratic leaders and the National Democratic committee. Yet, I have not received a single e-mail about this bill or President Bush's veto of the bill. How hard are they really trying?
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