I’m really doing a lousy job of quitting blogging this week. :-P<\/p>\n
Anyhow, Bitch PhD<\/a> has the info you need to help override Bush’s veto of health care for poor children. Here’s some of it, please click through for the whole thing:<\/p>\n The good news is that the Senate has enough votes for SCHIP to override Bush’s asshole veto.<\/p>\n The bad news is that the House doesn’t. We need 25 more Representatives to act like decent human beings and switch their votes. [But that’s doable; this writer<\/a> thinks that there are 46 “no” voters in the House who might change their mind, if their constituents are outraged enough. –Amp]<\/em><\/p>\n So. Do the decent thing. Go here <\/a>and find out who your representative is.<\/p>\n Then scroll down the list below to see if his or her name is on it. These are the folks who voted against SCHIP.<\/p>\n Write them (you can do so via the first link, or you can google their name and find a real honest-to-god mailing address) and tell them to change their vote. That’s all you have to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Go read the rest at BitchPhd<\/a>. And if your Rep is on her list, please send them an angry email.<\/p>\n Echidne <\/a>writes:<\/p>\n What does Bush’s veto mean for those 6.6 million? In thirteen states <\/a>they may become uninsured within a week or two and in yet another 23 states by the end of the fiscal year 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n By the way, although the House of Representatives is approximately 85% white, about 99% of the Representatives who voted against health care for poor kids are white<\/a>. What a shock.<\/p>\n UPDATE: By the way, there was a legitimate reason to vote against SCHIP — the final version in the House discriminated against children of immigrants<\/a>. But that ship has now sailed; it’s shitty that the version that passed the House was that one, but that’s what happened. Now that it has passed, overriding Bush’s veto is the thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m really doing a lousy job of quitting blogging this week. :-P Anyhow, Bitch PhD has the info you need to help override Bush’s veto of health care for poor children. Here’s some of it, please click through for the … Continue reading