Democrats Plan to push through controversial SCHIP legislation tomorrow while a number of members from California are back in their districts responding to the wildfires
This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Nor am I surprised that the WaPo would carry a distorted story on the Frost family. They claim that Halsey is a self-employed woodworker whose business failed in the late 1990s. So if he is self employed, he works for himself, therefore he has a business. He also owns the building that he works out of, leases space out of his building, so therefore that is a business. Although one of his business adventures dissolved in the 1990’s, another took it’s place. Bookmark this link, as it is a point-by-point deconstruction of the WaPo piece.
Michelle notes that the Republicans have not been able to see the new bill:
House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) issued the following statement today after House Democrats announced they plan to push through controversial SCHIP legislation tomorrow while a number of members from southern California are back in their districts responding to the wildfires:
“The scope, scale and severity of the fires raging in southern California are of a magnitude few of us have ever seen. What’s important right now is that members from the area be given the chance to return to their districts to aid their constituents in any way they can – whether through casework, disaster relief efforts, or simply lending a hand to a neighbor in need.
“Unfortunately, the speaker announced plans today to hold an important, and contentious, vote on SCHIP while these members are confronting serious issues at home – disenfranchising, in effect, a large segment of the most populous state in the union, and throwing into doubt the integrity of the vote.
“In light of these circumstances, I would urge the speaker to reconsider her strategy and delay the vote on her SCHIP bill until a time when the interests of millions of Americans in southern California can be accurately represented. Maybe in that time Democrats will also actually consider making a copy of the bill available to Republicans.”
She further warns you that Bush is ready to compromise. and as we all know, he is the biggest spender since LBJ.
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