Wednesday
Oct 3
Oct 3
09:48am by Pink Lady; General
Walking into work today, I stopped in the Omni lobby to get coffee because THANK GOD THEY HAVE STARBUCKS HERE. Glancing up at the TV, I saw that President Bush had indeed vetoed the S-CHIP bill. “Motherfu*cker!” I muttered under my breath, which for me means, loud enough for all the people waiting in line to hear me. (I have never quite mastered the art of keeping my opinions to myself because I figure that usually everyone else will want to hear them.)
Commence the eating of the poor children. Before they get too sick and skinny. Yuck.
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When I was in high school (Catholic, of course), one of my teachers told me that I “had a voice that carried far,” and that I needed to learn “modulation.” Motherfu*cker.
/still unmodulated
Let’s just hope he lives up to his word to campaign vigorously for the R nominee.
/Re: 1. Bodhisattva
Not Buddhist high school?
Re: 2. FledTheAsylum
I wanted to go to a Buddhist high school, but it was on the other side of town and I didn’t have a karma.
Re: 3. Bodhisattva
excellent.
Worst . . . Peckerhead . . . Ever.
Let’s hope none of us need to go to a hospital Emergency Room anytime soon, since it will be full to overflowing with sick kids without health coverage.
Let the snotty-nosed rugrats suffer a little longer. Power-washing nannies will make more. This is the best news I’ve heard in weeks! Bush and his old fat white male toilet-trolling cronies look like devils with this veto. I’m as happy as a wodka-soaked clam.
/Seriously, dems could get a Howard Dean/Gary Hart ticket in the white house with this gift.
The veto seems to suggest to the R base: if I will veto spending on poor kids health insurance, I am finally willing to cut spending (even though Rs support a $5B increase for S-Chip).
http://www.showlushabstaining.blogspot.com
“One look at the Austin / Travis County health inspection report and the restaurant at the Omni Austin Hotel on Brazos may not seem so hospitable. It got a 54 in the inspection.”
Poor children are probably better for you than the Starbucks at the Omni anyway.
Bring lawyers, guns, and money
The S-Chip have hit the fan
Can we please impeach this mother fuc*ker before he starts another war
What I want to know is why are there not enough votes to override his veto?
PL, “Who’s Hungry?” I’m dyin’ here!
/Thank god I’m too old to eat.
Re: 10. the real wallflower
Look no further than the comments on chron.com. http://chron.com/disp/commnts.mpl/front/5183555.html
The wingnut House members aren’t budging because they don’t have to.
/WWTDD? What Would Tom DeLay Do?
I support his veto of the S-CHIP bill. I don’t think we should be putting surveillance chips inside our children either.
That is what the bill was for, right?
/ I only read headlines.
http://www.inthepinktexas.com
Re: 13. Shriz-noat
I can’t possibly top that.
Re: 10. the real wallflower
Why aren’t there enough votes in the House to override a veto? Because there is no bipartisanship in truely red states. Here in Texas, which ranks last (worst) in the US in the number of uninsured children, where our state legislature just learned a very costly lesson about tinkering with CHIP coverage, every Republican in the Texas delegation voted against the SCHIP bill (except Poe who was absent). Check the vote tally below.
Gohmert (R) Tyler N
Poe (R) Humble A
Johnson (R) Plano N
Hall (R)Rockwall N
Hensarling (R) Dallas N
Barton (R) Arlington N
Culberson (R) Houston N
Brady (R) The Woodlands N
Al Green (D) Houston Y
McCaul (R) Austin N
Conaway (R) Midland N
Granger (R) Fort Worth N
Thornberry (R) Clarendon N
Paul (R) Lake Jackson N
Hinojosa (D) Mercedes Y
Reyes (D) El Paso Y
Edwards (D) Waco Y
Jackson Lee (D) Houston Y
Neugebauer (R) Lubbock N
Gonzalez (D) San Antonio Y
Smith (R) San Antonio N
Lampson (D) Stafford Y
Rodriguez (D) San Antonio Y
Marchant (R) Coppell N
Doggett (D) Austin Y
Burgess (R) Lewisville N
Ortiz (D) Corpus Christi Y
Cuellar (D) Laredo Y
Gene Green (D) Houston Y
Johnson (D) Dallas A
Carter (R) Round Rock N
Sessions (R) Dallas N
Key: N=No; Y=Yes; P=Present;
A=Absent or did not vote
I do support implanting V-CHIP in our children.
Re: 11. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
low hanging fruit…must resist urge… to make …inappropriate comment
“compassionate conservative”: what an oxymoron
Re: 17. Lefty
Yeah, I realized that as soon as I clicked “Submit,” which in and of itself …
/Leave it to Lefty.
http://www.inthepinktexas.com
Re: 19. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
OK. I’ll bite. What’s the joke?
Re: 20. Pink Lady
She’s obviously not too old to drink?