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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (31316)	9/8/2008 8:01:06 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

McCain voted NO 8/2/07 Vote 307: H R 976: In this 68 to 31 vote the Senate passed an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. The bill also passed the House by a vote of 265 to 159. The bill increases total funding for the program to $60 billion over the next five years and provides health insurance for 9 million currently uninsured American children. The $7 billion yearly expansions were a major sticking point for the White House and ultimately lead to the fourth presidential veto from the Bush administration. The measure is a key agenda item for the Democratic majority in Congress, and Democratic leaders have vowed to push for a veto override, which would require a two-thirds vote. White House press secretary Dana Perino criticized Democrats for sending the president a bill she said they knew would be dead on arrival. “They made their political point,” Perino said. The White House contended that the 61-cent increase in the federal tobacco tax would not be able to recoup the required funds needed to fund the bill. White House officials also argued the measure would push millions of children already covered by private health insurance into publicly financed health care program

To: koan who wrote (31316)	9/8/2008 8:16:16 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"Tell me one major issue in the entire last century where the conservative Republicans were on the right..." Does Teddy Roosevelt count? == There is this.. But just 24 hours later, three Republicans had asked the governor to resign and, by the next day, two more would follow. Those first Republican defections were, in some ways, a ''Goldwater moment,'' one Republican state senator said. He was referring to 1974 when Senator Barry M. Goldwater told President Richard M. Nixon that Republicans in Congress would not stop his impeachment and conviction if he decided to remain in office. No longer could the president blame his troubles on the media or partisan politics. It was time to go. query.nytimes.com