Worth It

by digby

I have been remiss in failing to celebrate president Obama’s signing of the SCHIP extension bill yesterday after having watched it die under President Bush’s veto for no good reason. This proves that it makes difference who the president of the United States is and why you don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. No matter what differences you may have with Obama, more than six million children’s lives are positively impacted, some of them no doubt saved, by that one stroke of a pen.

It was one of the many low moments of the Bush administration to see the right wing prove that there was fetid compost where their hearts should be, by smearing and stalking a family that was dealing with horrible medical problems. There are a lot more people in the position of the Frost family today than there were when that debate was taking place. And the reason for that can be laid at the feet of the very same conservative fundamentalists who insisted during that debate that people should be forced to sell off every last asset before their catastrophically injured little children could get government assistance with medical insurance.

That is the philosophy that brought us to where we are today.

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