Recognizing at last that the family of Graeme Frost has not evoked the sympathy they hoped for (perhaps due to the family’s two properties, three vehicles, private school, and reticence to validate their reported income), Democrats have once again paraded a new State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) poster child for public consumption. Bethany Wilkerson is a two-year-old with a heart defect. Her mother is a waitress, and her father works at the restaurant doing minor repairs and odd jobs. Their employer does not provide health insurance. They rent, drive one beat-up car, and have a combined income of $34,000. This sounds like a family with genuine need worthy of good, old-fashioned American compassion and worthy S-CHIP recipients. Writing for National Review Online, Mark Hemingway offers some further thoughts on this new S-CHIP family.
Whether or not Mr. Hemingway’s interview insights are accurate or not is not my main interest. It does seem that the Wilkerson’s, like great numbers of Americans today, expect their fellow citizens to pony up when their choices don’t pan out. What is more troublesome is that Democrats and their liberal cronies insist on using children to forward their deceptions. Whose heart isn’t going to melt with two-year-old Bethany holding up a crayon sign reading, “Don’t Veto Me”? The image is too cute and criticism would just have to be too mean-spirited.
Except that little Bethany has not been vetoed! Nor have any of the other little Bethanys or little Graemes. They are covered under the S-CHIP program today – before the veto and after the veto!
Only in the land of left-believe does one call not expanding a social program a “cut” or an “elimination” of benefits. President Bush told Congress plainly enough that he would accept a more modest expansion of the S-CHIP program, but would veto the full Democrat-proposed expansion which includes eligibility for families earning up to $83,000 and “children” up to age 25. When that bill reached his desk, he vetoed it.
Guess what, Democrats and liberals. The S-CHIP program is still out there covering little Bethanys and Graemes and anyone else you want to enlist to parade your falsehoods.
And guess what else, Democrats and liberals. Productive conservatives are still demonstrating their compassion on a daily basis. We are, after all, still paying for Graeme Frost’s and Bethany Wilkerson’s health care.
How to anger a conservative: Tell her a lie.
How to anger a liberal: Tell him the truth.
Whether or not Mr. Hemingway’s interview insights are accurate or not is not my main interest. It does seem that the Wilkerson’s, like great numbers of Americans today, expect their fellow citizens to pony up when their choices don’t pan out. What is more troublesome is that Democrats and their liberal cronies insist on using children to forward their deceptions. Whose heart isn’t going to melt with two-year-old Bethany holding up a crayon sign reading, “Don’t Veto Me”? The image is too cute and criticism would just have to be too mean-spirited.
Except that little Bethany has not been vetoed! Nor have any of the other little Bethanys or little Graemes. They are covered under the S-CHIP program today – before the veto and after the veto!
Only in the land of left-believe does one call not expanding a social program a “cut” or an “elimination” of benefits. President Bush told Congress plainly enough that he would accept a more modest expansion of the S-CHIP program, but would veto the full Democrat-proposed expansion which includes eligibility for families earning up to $83,000 and “children” up to age 25. When that bill reached his desk, he vetoed it.
Guess what, Democrats and liberals. The S-CHIP program is still out there covering little Bethanys and Graemes and anyone else you want to enlist to parade your falsehoods.
And guess what else, Democrats and liberals. Productive conservatives are still demonstrating their compassion on a daily basis. We are, after all, still paying for Graeme Frost’s and Bethany Wilkerson’s health care.
How to anger a conservative: Tell her a lie.
How to anger a liberal: Tell him the truth.
(image: Conservatives confront Democrats & liberals... again & again & again.)
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