“You’re going to spend it ( money) to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement”.

DON’T YOU LOVE IT? ……I DO!

It doesn’t happen often enough but when it does, it deserves a standing ovation!

Yesterday, Representative , a House Democrat from San Francisco opened up with both barrels and blasted Congress for voting against an expansion of children’s health care.

By a vote of 273–156, the House failed to overrule President’s Bush’s veto of legistration to expand the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program also known as S-CHIP.

For stating what most people wished they had the courage to say, Congressman Stark’s patriotism was questioned, (as is the modus operandi for the Republican party) and strongly urged to apologize by the NRCC.

Then in typical lame fashion, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino boasted, “We won this round on S-CHIP”.

Won this round? Is everybody in the Bush Administration delusional or should we just start demanding mandatory drug testing for all White House staffers?

Keith Olbermann, MSNBC News Commentator and one of the few journalist that still tells the truth, opined, “Are wins really that vital to this White House?  Are they so few and far between that a President who threw away the greatest personal support ever afforded a chief executive in this country, and threw away a reelection, is so marginalized that he would have a spokesperson characterize denying roughly four million children health care insurance as, quote, “We won this round on S-CHIP”?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put things in perspective when she said, “And if the President is saying we can’t afford the bill, then I would just say and remind him that for forty days in Iraq, we can insure 10 MILLION CHILDREN for ONE YEAR in America”.

Newsweek Columnist Jonathan Alter added, “Yeah, you know, Iraq dollars are actually a pretty good way of measuring misplaced priorities. When you’re at $9 BILLION A MONTH that’s real money”.