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Here’s President Bush out speaking at a recent event.  The message isn’t exactly subtle.

Now here’s the Washington Post this morning on how the administration is handling the ongonig S-CHIP brouhaha:
Bush administration officials yesterday voiced conciliation, suggesting the president could accept legislation that would expand the program by about $20 billion over five years, far bigger [...]

Michael Cannon over at Cato-at-Liberty points out that RomneyCare is not much better than HillaryCare. Below is an excerpt from his post.
Noting that Clinton would merely give Americans the choice of enrolling in Medicare or a similar government-run program, the Fact Checker concludes:
The claim that “Hillary care” is tantamount to “socialized medicine” does not stand [...]

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As the President and Congress aim for a “compromise” about SCHIP, I encourage you to remember than any likely deal will not be a good outcome for the taxpayer, the health care system, or our constitution.It’s much like two burglars getting to your house at the same time. One of them only wants the jewelry. [...]

Quality production values in this ironic piece:

Over at the Atlantic, Marc Ambinder says Mitt Romney was strong on health care at last night’s GOP primary debate:
His best moment may have been when he said that an insurmountable problem like the health care crisis can, indeed, be solved. It wasn’t just a candidate saying he was optimistic; he showed how optimism, will [...]

As expected, Bush’s veto on S-CHIP held, despite a Democrat-led attempt to overturn it and some last minute attempts by the bill’s advocates to convince people that hey, it’s not so bad after all.  I’ve been somewhat hard on the GOP on the issue, but, at least now that we’re at this point, this deserves [...]

I’ve got a piece in NRO today arguing that although Democrats are bad on S-CHIP, conservatives, at least those with a free-market bent, need to be willing to call out Bush for his position as well.  The Democrats have won this issue in part by painting Bush and the rest of the GOP as “against [...]

Matt Hittle, my fellow blogger and a former FreedomWorks intern, has a good letter to the editor in today’s Sioux City Journal on SCHIP.
SCHIP is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a stepping stone to an economically devastating nationalized health care system under the guise of “helping kids.” Public health care sounds great, but look through [...]

I just received an email from the Mark Udall campaign asking me to write a note to Congressman Udall (my representative) urging him to vote to override President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP expansion. The campaign web site was even kind enough to provide me with a form letter and some writing tips. Needless to [...]