President Just Said No To SCHIP

Let us get this straight.

This is the same President who doesn't want any children left behind? Yes.

This is the same President who vetoes a children's health care bill with bipartisan support? Yes.

Does this decision make Democrats happy? No.

Does this decision make Republicans happy? No.

It is okay to allow our most vulnerable population of children go uninsured? No!

Is there something you/we can do about it? Yes!

Let's turn the beat around and immediately contact your Representative!

Not too long ago there was a piece written in the San Jose Mercury news where

a reporter chose to define "specific parenting issues" as "after-school child care" and "paying for college education" and proceeded to discount parents being interested in "healthcare, global warming or the war in Iraq" because by her definition those are not specific parenting issues.

Oh puhlease!

We don't need to have issues defined for us and then be instructed as to which issues should be of interest. Anything can be a parenting issue and any issue can be addressed by anyone regardless of their parental persuasion. Let's not divide along c-section,adoption, maternal or paternal lines! Say what you need to say and say it to whomever you need to say it.

Or as our kids say to us all the time, "I can say whatever I want! It's a free country!" and in this case. They are absolutely correct.

Be good boys and girls, run along now and contact your Representative or The Big Daddy himself.