Heh.
WASHINGTON-(AP)- [1]The Democratic-controlled House failed on Thursday to override President Bush‘s veto of a politically popular children’s health bill, and the White House instantly called for compromise talks on a replacement.
“As long as the bottom line is that 10 million children are covered. That’s non-negotiable,” responded Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. She pledged that new legislation would be ready within two weeks, and within hours, key lawmakers met to consider changes in the vetoed measure.
What we have here is a democratic party that is totally incapable of getting anything done. And the frustration is starting to show. Observe, if you will, Pete Stark Raving Mad. [2]
Michelle Malkin [3]is livebloging this, so is the Captain. [4] Michelle points out how much Democrats have changed:
Update 10:51am Eastern. Newly-elected Democrat Rep. Niki Tsongas has just been sworn in and she’s exulting in being there to cast her override vote on the S-CHIP expansion. Her husband, you may have forgotten, was one of the most outspoken critics of the entitlement crisis [5] and gave out “Pander Bears” [6] to politicians who refused to be honest about the looming fiscal disaster of the expanding social welfare state.
Those were the days.
Exactly. And the question I have… as the late Mr. Tsongas did, by the way, is why we’re accepting as a given the Government needs to be involved in ANY of this. Why are we taking an unconstitutional approach , and then instead of arguing that basic, we spend all our time arguing on the best approach to getting the expansion of government completed.
And yes, it is unconstitutional. Explain to me where in the constitution direct payments to individuals to pay for doctor visits and so on. is.