Plunderbund

Jerid posted on this over at BSB last night (after I had gone to bed, actually). I specifically wanted to comment on Kucinich’s comments about his no vote.
“I cannot support legislation which extends health coverage to some children while openly denying it to other children,” Kucinich said. “This legislation is […]

That’s right, President Bush has set new policies that would actually prevent individual states from expanding the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to […]

Jonathan over at MYDD.com has a good post up today discussing the fight in congress over expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
House Republican leader, Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio has threatened that “Republicans will fight these proposals”.
And the Democrats have accused Boehner and the Republicans of trying to deny the Democrats a political […]

I have to be honest, I had tempered my expectations going in… and Strickland blew me out of the water. Belt-tightening in excess of Blackwell’s ridiculous spending cap nonsense, a freeze on college tuition, and a real focus on improving the lot of Ohioans living in the bottom half. In addition to killing […]

Governor Ted Strickland was in Washington yesterday for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association- where he helped push the Bush administration to provide more cash to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
George, of course, just wanted to talk about the war.
When asked about the cut in funding proposed by his recent […]