Like taking medicine from a baby...

Today our Commuter and Thief took a break-- from plotting to drag our country into another disastrous war of aggression-- to take a firm stand against helping uninsured children obtain medical coverage:

President Bush vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have expanded government-provided health insurance for children, his second slap-down of a bipartisan effort in Congress to dramatically increase funding for the popular program.It was Bush's seventh veto in seven years _ all but one coming since Democrats took control of Congress in January. Wednesday was the deadline for Bush to act or let the bill become law. The president also vetoed an earlier, similar bill expanding the health insurance program.Bush vetoed the bill in private....

You can read the rest of Jennifer Loven's AP report here. Perhaps the most sickening aspect of this whole thing is that supporters of the legislation actually bent over backwards to make substantive changes-- in order to meet Republican objections to the former bill. I mean, why did they bother? You're dealing with an administration dominated by pathological liars, after all. These are the folks who put the "con" into compassionate conservatism!

The rationalization sometimes offered for these SCHIP vetoes is that Bush wants to show his fiscal restraint. Ha!! This is the guy who pushed us into the Iraq quagmire so deep that we're throwing millions down the same rathole every day with nothing to show for it. No, anyone who inherits a budget surplus and rapidly racks up a huge deficit isn't going to impress folks with his "fiscal conservatism" anytime soon! I'd rant some more, only my insurance probably wouldn't cover me in case I really blew a gasket!