Update: At 1:20 p.m. EDT, THE house FAILED to OVERRIDE!
"Democrats Look Ahead as Veto Override Falters" by ROBERT PEAR
[Just WASTING MORE TIME, 'eh, Democraps?]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 — With little expectation of overriding President Bush’s veto, Democrats in Congress said Wednesday that they would pass a new bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children, but were willing to tweak it to address some White House concerns.
Mr. Bush predicted that on Thursday the House would uphold his veto of a bill to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. He named three administration officials to “seek common ground” with Congress.
[And the 24-percent president WINS AGAIN!]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said Democrats in Congress would not compromise.
[I'd laugh if she were not such a sad sack of shit]
The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said he might be willing to “tweak something” in the bill to help the president “save face.”
Mr. Reid was asked Tuesday whether he would be willing to negotiate with the White House if Congress upheld the president’s veto. “No, no, no,” he replied. “We have negotiated.”
To win support from Republicans, Mr. Reid said, Democrats had “compromised and compromised and compromised.”
[And they will COMPROMISE again!
I mean, come on, you guys have COMPRISED on EVERYTHING ELSE!!
Shit, you just rolled over again for SPYING, Harry!
At this point, I figure Dems like getting fucked up the ass by Bush!]
Eighteen Republicans in the Senate and 45 in the House voted for the bill that Mr. Bush vetoed.
The secretary of health and human services, Michael O. Leavitt, said Wednesday that the child health program “ought to be focused on poor families.”
But the latest CBS News poll, released on Wednesday, found overwhelming support for expansion of the program to include some middle-class uninsured children.
[Here we go again! This is something we want, so... ]
Eighty-one percent of respondents, including 70 percent of Republicans, supported expanding the program. Three-quarters of those who supported expansion said they would be willing to pay higher taxes to finance it. The poll was conducted nationally by telephone Oct. 12-16 with 1,282 adults, and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Ms. Pelosi has said she hopes to wear down the president’s resistance one way or another:
“This legislation will haunt him again and again and again. It’s not going away, because the children are not going away.”
[Not unless they are sent to war, Ms. Speaker!
And WHAT LEGISLATION haunts you, Ms. Speaker?
Iraq war-funding bills?
Carte Blanche for Bush to attack Iran?
And by the way, naive Nancy, HE DOESN'T CARE!!!!!!]
