House sustains the liar's veto

Today the allegedly Democratic House failed to override Bush's second veto of an effort to expand the popular SCHIP, a children's health care program.

So now about 3,000,000 children won't get health insurance that they otherwise would have, thanks to Bush standing in the way.

Bush's excuse was that expanding SCHIP was just a step towards government-run health care. Well, we've seen what Big Business-run health care is like, and at least the government can be voted out of office, so I don't see how a public health care system could be any worse than the health care system America has now. Bush's pretext for vetoing the bill is strictly doctrinaire and not based on whether it would have good results. Then again, Bush has always gone out of his way to leave a trail of despair in his wake, so he really doesn't even believe his own excuse. If he's so worried about the government getting involved in everything, why does he support the DEA's war against medical marijuana?

It's times like this I almost wish Bush was allowed to run for a third term, because just think what John Edwards would do to him in the general election.

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/pl_nm/usa_congress_children_dc)