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DEL.ICIO.USPost and riposte: More about that PeachCare letter
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You know the one — written by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Details are a couple items down.
They demanded that President Bush come up with the roughly $1 billion needed to fill in Georgia’s PeachCare program, and the shortfalls in more than a dozen other states.
We ran into a Republican who knows Washington a bit. He says this is bad news. If Pelosi and Reid thought the money was there, there’s no way they’d demand that Bush come up with the funds — and thus win all the credit.
That letter was an assignation of blame, our friend said.
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By tribalecho
February 6, 2007 8:18 AM | Link to this
You mean the letter where the leaders of Congress, Democrats for this year, request that the President fund healthcare for kids, as the Guv of Georgia also requests? That “demanding” letter?
As for your rabbit Republican friend, (Harvey perhaps?) I think it’s safe to assume that NO money is THERE. It’s all got to be borrowed whether we’re paying for kid’s health care or that new layer of political bureaucracy that Bush recently appointed by executive decree. (you can google it)
By RJ
February 6, 2007 8:42 AM | Link to this
President Bush and the Republican led Congress failure to address the Peachcare funding issue seven months ago and Mr. Bush’s failure to include a request for the money in his recently submitted budget request, along with other policy choices are indications of the further decline of Republicanism, at least on the national scene anyway.