SCHIP

The State Children Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, is a wonderful program. It provides a way for millions of poor children to gain access to health care when they ordinarily would not have any. The program has been wildly successful, but it is set to expire shortly, at the end of the month.

Obviously, with SCHIP being so successful, Congress is working on legislation to not just renew it, but also expand it. The goal would be to expand SCHIP to cover an additional 4 million children, bringing the total to 10 million. 10 million children with health care. Sounds good, right? Bush doesn't agree. He intends to veto it. Bush only wants a smaller increase, which would not be sufficient to continue current coverage levels, but wouldn't involve a $0.61 tax increase on cigarettes. Bear in mind that there is no argument from Bush that the expanded program would be ineffective. That, in fact, is the problem. Everyone agrees it would work. The source of Bush's opposition is not whether giving 4 million more children health care would be good, but rather that expansion of the successful program would be a step towards socialized medicine.

The bottom line: Bush would deny 4 million children health care for the sake of his ideology.

Iraq

We have a new strategy for finding insurgents in Iraq! The extremely simple program, called baiting, involves scattering explosives and ammunition on the ground, and then shooting anyone who picks them up. What could possibly go wrong?

I wish to God I was kidding. This ranks way up there on the list of stupidest things we've done in Iraq. Unfortunately, this is what happens when you have an army doing police work in a vain effort to stop a civil war. The only real way to stop our military from doing boneheaded things like this is to get them out of the country.

-David Kleppinger, Morons.org Legislative Analyst

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