Says the Unitary”barefoot” executive, says the “decider” in chief, the “commander” guy. Question is, what power, not the amount. More spin cycle from the Bush League.

Philosophically speaking, though, Bush has achieved true knowledge, in that he knows nothing.

I would argue that investing in the long term health of our children is far more important than the $50 billion/year Senior Part D drug benefit. Of course seniors vote and children don’t and that is why we have our priorities screwed up.

When there is one sector of society without adequate health care, it brings all of the society down. When illness prevents working, the ill aren’t contributing via taxes, and the burden is larger for the rest. When those who can’t pay end up in the hospital, their expenses are distributed among the rest. The list of ways that we are paying now because we don’t prioritize health care for everyone goes on and on.

Investing in a healthy and well cared for citizenzy is acturally a cost saving measure in the long term. It’s just unforutate that those making the poor choice of preventing health care programs in the past have made the rest of us pay for their short sightedness.

But some people feel all cozy if they point out that it’s really all the fault of the evil nasty people who did it to themselves. Even if it isn’t true for nearly as many people as they’d like to claim. It just justifies doing nothing.

The money spent to insure poor childre, at a tiny fraction of that cost is surely is a better investment in America’s future than that. By Bush’s admanance in standing up for conservativbe principles- he reveals that his compassionate conservatism was nothing but a cynical ploy, especially when the first 6 years of his administration operated without a single veto for a spending bill..