Oh don’t be silly, of course they will. Just like all my democrat friends were whining they would never call the shots again in ‘03 and ‘04. It always goes in cycles.

Let’s be honest- if he believed in the principle, he’d never have signed his Medicare prescription program, which is an even bigger step towards socialized medicine.

True. It is the largest entitlement increase to date.

There’s something else you should know. In at least one instance, the Bush Administration in the past has permitted S-CHIP to cover childless adults, one of the things I dislike about the current bill because this program was meant to help poor children.

“Bush sees the legislation as a backdoor move toward government-run health care, but committee Republicans Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and Pat Roberts of Kansas said in a July 11 letter to Bush that the issue that most concerns him — the use of SCHIP to cover adults — is partly his fault. Under Bush’s watch, the department of Health and Human Services has approved 12 waivers to states allowing SCHIP coverage of adults, records show, including a waiver issued May 24 allowing Wisconsin to cover parents earning up to twice the poverty level.”

That doesn’t merit this bill, given that the crowd-out problem is a serious issue. And it’s not just about children — it’s time for more honesty from Congress and proponents of S-CHIP.

The Republicans are not going to get back in power. The real legacy of President Bush is that he will probably be the last Republican President and his incompetence will probably end up destroying the Republican Party.

The real quesiton should be who wins and who loses when the U.S. becomes a one party state.

If they wish to be “bold” (what the hyperventilators have demanded about Iraq, for example), why don’t they introduce a bill to provide Medicare to all children or even push the Conyers-Kucinich bill through to provide Medicare for everybody? (Kucinich voted no on the bill.)

Let’s be honest- if he believed in the principle, he’d never have signed his Medicare prescription program, which is an even bigger step towards socialized medicine.

He no longer has any credibility on this issue with less than 14 months left before the ‘08 election. But I do agree that he is taking the Republican party down with him. Five Republican Senators and about as many Representatives are not even running for re-election.