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  •  This bill (4.00 / 3)

    IMHO is the most important proposal out there.  Ensuring health insurance coverage for America's children is the most decent, consequential task Congress could undertake.  Unfortunately, the definition of compassionate conservatism doesn't encompass protection of children--maybe if Congress added an amendment to include CEO's the majority party would go for this.

    One way to create a little cognitive dissonance among the right is to tie this with the issue of abortion.  If the right truly cares about reducing abortion (and given the surge in abortions under Bush, I don't think the right does care), the conservatives would be all about providing health insurance for children.  I wonder how many abortions occur because the prospective mother feels she simply can't afford to have a child.  No health insurance for children, I would think, has a real effect on these women.  But, as George Carlin once said, the right only cares about you when you're unborn; once you're born, "you're fucked."  

    •  Where's Jonathan Swift when you need him? (none / 0)

      Cons would eat poor children for breakfast if they could get away with it. Actually, they're very good at imitating psychopaths. They mimic human emotion but inside there's a void. Then again, maybe it isn't imitation.

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