A Beautiful Political Issue
November 5th, 2007 by Peter SudermanIt’s been pretty obvious for a while that the Democrats’ S-CHIP fight has been almost entirely for show, a little song and dance routine designed to suggest that opponents of the bill don’t care about health care for children. And now it seems that was the plan all along. Here’s Allan Hubbard, director of the National Economic Council, talking about his work on the bill:
In an interview, Mr. Hubbard said his work on the bill had been extremely frustrating.
“I was told last January or February by Democrats that their game plan was to send the president a bill that was too big to swallow, and it would be a beautiful political issue for them,†Mr. Hubbard said.
Care about children’s health? Nah, that’s a sham. It’s all politics for these folks.
