This morning, NPR news carried a clip from an interview with Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, in which he expressed the White House's willingness to compromise on S-Chip, the children's health program. According to Leavitt, the administration is prepared to accept a program that covers the same number of children as have been covered in the past.
W, you may recall, said in vetoing the bill sent up by a truly bi-partisan majority in Congress that he favored more money for S-Chip. What he did not say, although even the White House did not deny it, is that the amount he proposed the program would not even cover the children now insured under it.
Bush lies. Now there's a story!
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In another interview of a Sunday Talk show with Gov. Corzine of NJ he defended the veto by claiming that the new legislation would provide help to families with up to $80+K incomes. That was also a lie, because New York state had requested that high limit for COL reasons in NY, but it was rejected before the new bill was proposed.
I like Wasserman's cartoon of a few weeks ago in the Globe, about lying. It showed four frames, two in which Gonzales' mouth was open, and a caption "Lying", and two with mouth closed, and a caption "Not lying.
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