SCHIP action alert!

Republicans and conservatives claim a monopoly on Christian values.

With deference to visitors of other religions, faiths and creeds - and as a Christian – I submit to them Jesus’ “Sermon the Mount:” LINK

Jesus Christ spoke on one subject more than any other in the New Testament – the poor. He mentions the poor more than 700 times.

The State Children’s Health Insurance Program – SCHIP, pronounced s-chip – provides for the children of those who work hard, but still cannot afford health coverage.

President George W. Bush, in vetoing legislation to extend SCHIP coverage, claims Democrats want to use the program to assist the “rich” and promote “socialized medicine.”

The SCHIP program was developed to help working parents who make a decent living, own their own home, but still cannot afford health insurance.

With his veto, Bush has cut out assistance which would have been extended to some 4 million children in need, not children of the so-called “rich.”

Bush would like to see every government service privatized. Yeah, that really worked well with Halliburton and Blackwater in Iraq.

As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman pointed out last night on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” Republicans and conservatives are frantic because “a human face” is being put on the program.

Waging a smear campaign against children who have been helped by SCHIP – a campaign, in fact, based on lies – might be the lowest right-wing effort yet, and that’s saying a lot.

One conservative publication, the National Review, suggests if one little girl’s parents couldn’t afford her health care, they shouldn’t have had her in the first place.

HOUSE IS EXPECTED TO VOTE THURSDAY ON WHETHER TO OVERRIDE BUSH’S VETO: some lawmakers say they are 12 votes shy of the 2/3s majority needed to override the veto!

ACTION ALERT: Take five minutes today to phone or email your member of the House of Representatives and express your views about their vote to override Bush’s veto.

Members of the House have Web sites with phone numbers or email forms for your convenience. Just google your congressman’s name and follow it with “contact information.” Use the site link which ends with house.gov.

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TO READ MORE about the smear campaign against a child being helped by SCHIP , go to my reading room: LINK