Pressuring The House: Speak Out To Override The Child Health Care Veto
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In vainly attempting to defend his veto Bush actually said,
"No one goes without health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room."
The last time someone said something that insufferably ignorant and insensitive, it was "Let them eat cake", perhaps not by coincidence a statement from someone else who acted as an absolute monarch.
This most cruel and heartless of vetoes would not only INCREASE the real cost to government by cutting back on preventative care, those emergency room visits are not free to the patients either, who get dunned into bankruptcy with outrageous charges.
But to keep his cronies in the insurance and tobacco rackets as fat and happy as possible, Sir Silver Spoon would sacrifice the health of an entire generation of children, including all the snowflake babies he is so fond of posing for photo ops in front of.
SAVE SCHIP ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/save_schip.php
There are other groups jumping on this and that is good. But what this resource does best is send real time messages directly to all your members of Congress, plus letters to the editor of your nearest daily local newspaper. Overriding this callous outrage is a very winnable fight, especially where the majority leadership is vowing to bring the bill up and pass it again, even if we cannot reverse the veto the first time. This is exactly the kind of backbone we need on other issues and could be a breakthrough of the people's leadership.
We must shore up our support in the Senate where initial vote would already constitute a veto override, and bring the maximum pressure on the House to obtain the 20 extra votes needed there.
So again on this issue, just we did when we were successful in cutting the worst language from the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, which would have been a de facto declaration of war on Iran, we are asking all our participants to make a special point of submitting the action page. Again on this critical pivot issue we are asking you to reach out as far as possible by using the friends invitation section of the action page above to encourage everyone you know to join in the victory for children's health care.
Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.