SCHIP reauthorization falls a few dozens votes short of the number needed to override Bush's promised veto. For the sake of some sort of bizarre ideological purity, Bush is going to veto providing health insurance to children in need. Wonderful.
And he's going to do this, as Attaturk points out, just days after saying these words before the UN:
"[T]he mission of the United Nations requires liberating people from hunger and disease. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration states: "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food and clothing and housing and medical care." Around the world, the United Nations is carrying out noble efforts to live up to these words."
The United States, on the other hand, is doing what it can to avoid it. Something tells me that this is a vote the Republican Party is very much going to regret.
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