October 13, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

NO LIMIT ON CHARACTER ASSASSINATION

George W. Bush suddenly found alleged fiscal responsibility when he vetoed a bill that provides health insurance for children. The Democrats used a beneficiary of that program, a 12-year-old named Graeme Frost, as their spokesman in response to Bush. The fact he's only twelve didn't stop the right wing smear machine from going full blast. They lied and claimed that Graeme's family was affluent and didn't need any government assisted health insurance. In fact, Graeme's family is lower middle class, couldn't afford private health insurance, and desperately needs this program. This column by Paul Krugman is at www.nytimes.com:

The parents have a combined income of about $45,000, and don’t receive health insurance from employers. When they looked into buying insurance on their own before the accident, they found that it would cost $1,200 a month — a prohibitive sum given their income. After the accident, when their children needed expensive care, they couldn’t get insurance at any price.

Fortunately, they received help from Maryland’s S-chip program. The state has relatively restrictive rules for eligibility: children must come from a family with an income under 200 percent of the poverty line. For families with four children that’s $55,220, so the Frosts clearly qualified.

Graeme Frost, then, is exactly the kind of child the program is intended to help. But that didn’t stop the right from mounting an all-out smear campaign against him and his family.