Democrat health care scam fails

CNN:

House Democrats on Thursday failed to override President Bush's veto of a children's health insurance bill that opponents said was too expensive.

By a vote of 273 to 156, the measure fell 13 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for an override. Forty-four Republicans voted for the override.

"Now is the time for Congress to stop playing politics and to join the president in finding common ground," said a White House statement after the vote. Bush was "pleased," the statement said, that the "misguided legislation" was defeated.

Democrats, sensing earlier that they didn't have the votes, vowed to continue the fight, despite a defeat.

The issue has ignited an intense two-week struggle on Capitol Hill after Bush vetoed the proposed five-year expansion and $35 billion spending increase. Bush proposes increasing the program by $5 billion.

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The Democrat plan has been promoted on the fraudulent premise that the President was against health care for children and they used props were still be covered by the President's program to claim that he was denying health care to children. They then attacked conservatives who pointed out the fraudulent premise as attacking sick kids. There can be fewer clearer examples of the dishonest debate that the Democrats have attempted to use to coerce Republican votes on a bad bill. Look for more politics of fraud from the left on this issue.

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