Harry's SCHIP didn't come in.....

By now you’ve seen the media doctored photos of good ole’ grandfatherly Harry in his role as chief rescuer of the disadvantaged and distressed. (Notice, they never have him in a speaking role—just a disembodied head with a fake smile.) I was wondering just how long it would take for his campaign to rip off another play from the Democratic Reelection Campaign Playbook in their ads. Lo and behold, here comes the “it’s for the children” ploy. I always find it ironic that Democrats have no qualms about parading angelic children in misleading ads pretending on the one hand to be “for the children” while on the other hand are the very party who are eager to support abortion on demand. After all didn’t the leader of their party, say he wouldn’t want his daughters to be “punished with a baby” if they made a mistake and voted four times against a provision to save the life of an infant who was the survivor of a botched abortion? But why let the facts get in the way of another attempt by the DCRII (Democratic Campaign to Re-elect Incompetent Incumbents) to insist they really care.

Here’s a quote from Mitchell’s campaign site:
“Congressman Mitchell has voted for legislation to expand health insurance coverage for low-income children provided by the State Children's Health Care Program (SCHIP), in the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act, H.R. 976.”

So let’s parse the definition of just what the Democrats mean by children. According to wording from the bill, these uninsured children include “pregnant women, parents and childless adults.” In addition, the age of dependent children in this bill now has been redefined to include cuddly kids up to the age of 25.

And this isn’t all that was in this debacle. Not only was the definition of “children” adjusted but so was the definition of “poverty.” Under the Mitchell backed bill, the poor included families earning as much as $80,000 per year!

So how do you fund this program according to the DCRII script? Raise taxes, of course! But here is where it gets interesting. No one wants higher taxes, right? So choose a despised group and tax them. Well, who’s left? The rich have been squeezed. So let’s increase the tax on evil tobacco. Funny, the party that has pushed so hard for the elimination of smoking now wants to pay for SCHIP by increasing the number of smokers! To pay for step one toward universal government run healthcare needs to be funded by a 61 cent increase on tobacco tax requiring an additional 22 million new smokers. But what can you expect from a party that needs to register dead people, non-citizens and fictional characters in order to win an election?

Fortunately, W used his veto pen on this disaster. But according to Harry, you would think the legislation passed. Now you know the rest of the story.