The Butthead in the Bubble

Smell that stink? Know what it is?

It's the Bush bubble leaking. It's that bubble that currently encapsulates the White House and President Jerky. Of course, it will be patched with Cheney's fat ass before the odor gets too far out of control.

I can smell it, though. Currently, it smells like the new children's health program that Bush opposes.

See, Bush has decided to limit state health coverage for children that are from middle-income families. He believes that these children need to be uninsured for a year before they can participate in the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Instead, ONLY lower-income children will get SCHIP privileges. In other words, families that are "just above the poverty line (bringing in $43,000/year)" can't utilize state coverage, even if they aren't provided insurance by their employers. Instead, they have to dole out, hmmm, about $43,000 for a doctor's visit to keep their child healthy.

First, HELLO OUR STUPID PRESIDENT, most of the country is "just above the poverty line." Oh, wait, he can't see that. It appears his rose-colored glasses are super-glued to his Styrofoam filled head.

Second, it is an absolutely LUDICROUS idea to require children to be without health insurance, whether it be for one year or one damn day!!!

I can see it now – middle-income schools filled with sick uninsured children, coughing, hacking, sharing germs. Diseases spreading, teachers and parents getting sick. Parents with no health insurance paying more money to cover their illnesses. It's a slope that is more slippery than Bush's Teflon brain.

Speaking of his teeeeeeeeeny, tiiiiiiiiiiiny brain, clearly Bush didn't pay attention in Biology 101 in high school, especially when his teacher discussed the human immune system. Apparently, he doesn't seem to remember that children's immune systems are still developing. The chances that a child's cold could develop into an infection, say bronchitis, are much more likely than for an adult. Children can't fight off infections quite as easily.

But, President Butthead has decided that if middle income children get sick, their parents will have to sell the house to pay for their health bills. Either that, or sell the house to pay for private health insurance. Either way, his plan puts those that are "just above the poverty line" into a state of poverty.

Hmmmm. Does anyone else see this? It is the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer and the dumb getting dumber.

Wait, the story gets even better! The House SCHIP bill currently in Congress (pushed by Democrats AND Republicans) offers to increase the federal cigarette tax by 45 cents a pack to increase funding for SCHIP by about $50 billion over five years. Great idea! Awesome! But, get this, our jackass of a leader has said he would veto the measure. Bush has proposed only a $5 billion increase over five years for SCHIP, which would raise the program's total five-year funding to only $30 billion. The bastard said he would veto the House and Senate versions of the bill.

Our peanut-head leader has decided that, well, it is just too much money to take care of our health care system and now our children. Instead, it's more important to forge forward with a war that costs our country billions and billions of dollars. Mmmm, good thinking George and Dicky. Save the oil, not our children. You're both idiots.

OK, I'm not a great historian, but I know a little about political science. Washington, Jefferson and Roosevelt would be repulsed at the job that our current president is doing. I know I am. Just another reason to go to the doctor.

Comments

[Paloma Campos]

You certainly know how to make me laugh, but this is making me fume more than laugh. There are not enough obscenities in the world to cover how I feel about this presidential f*@k up. There are just way too many idiots in charge and not enough brilliant humanitarians.

[Mom101]

I am laughing!

No wait... I am crying. Sobbing. Pounding my fists on the keyboard and crying.

No wait, I'm laughing again.

How can you do this to me?

(And thanks for the blogroll mention. I'm honored to be in such esteemed company.)

[Gabrielle]

You are welcome. I am a HUGE fan of your site. It's an honor to have you here.

[Jam]

It doesn't matter who the president of the US is we are on our way down. While the US is talking about Paris Hilton and Britney Spears the government is passing laws that give Bush dictorial rights. WAKE UP USA!! Soon we are going ot be part of the North American Union and the government would like nothing more for some kind of catastrophe to force us in to martial law. Doesn't matter, Republican, democrat they all come from the same mold and are out to ruin the country.

[Gabrielle]

Jam,
Do you mean, they HAVE ruined the country? Your comments are so true. Uneducated Americans are so obsessed with Lindsay Lohan going into rehab for the brazillionth time, that they don't see all of our politicians chipping away at the amendments that our great leaders wanted us to have. It's repulsive. It's no longer "We the People," it's "We the rich lobbyists who control the Congress, the Senate and our Stupid President."