Yes, Bush Cheney, I encourage you to take your own advice and think. . .before you name yourself after a pair of war criminals who are against anything that appears to be to the advantage of citizens and approve of anything that benefits corporations--look at the record if that statement confuses you.

The fact is that the US needs a health care system that does not involve insurance companies, and what we need fewer of are Repugnicans who don't complain about the billions of dollars in corporate welfare we pay out every year but balk when money is going to go to help people. Because of the current health care situation, America leads industrial nations in infant mortality and deaths from treatable health problems. I don't hear you being worried about the $3 trillion war we're fighting that gets more expensive every day--the defense budget is now about 50% of the government's budget, and social programs make up a very small part.

You're seem to be of the same mind as the Reagan-era conservatives who attacked welfare for being a haven for "black welfare mothers" when the majority of people on welfare were white and most people on welfare used it responsibly. Thanks to the economic downturn orchestrated by the past Republican congresses (Phil "Whiner" Gramm to be specific), REAL unemployment (not the faked and fudged numbers the gov't churns out, is about 9%--more people out of work, and the number of poor has grown by the millions-- people who are unable to afford health care. If you are a cold, Darwinian Repugnican, the solution is to let them all die, which seems to be your perspective as well.

I can't believe the insane liberal rhetoric you people post. The SCHIP bill is not only incredibly unnecessary but it's not even all for children. It gives people with a household income of $62,000 a year government health care. People making this much money don't need the government to pay for their health care. It will only be an incentive for people with private insurance to switch to government run health care, and if you don't know how that works out look at Canada. Extremely long wait times and lack of medical technology plague Canada's "health care" system more and more every year. Not to mention the fact that the poorest 20% of people in the U.S. are 3 times more likely to smoke than the richest 20%. This is unnecessary liberal tax and spend policy at its finest. SCHIP in many states actually spends more on adult health care than on children. Come on, use some damn common sense instead of buying into the ridiculous liberal rhetoric. All I see on this page is false accusations and mindless insults. Lets think for a change.

Death falls so heavy from my soul. Death falls so heavy makes me moan..somebody tell my father. Someone tell my mother I cried. Death falls so heavy from my soul. Death falls so heavy makes me moan. These could be words from the men and women in the WAR for OIL$$$$$$Baby bush has America in...

Comment # 2 in my opinion sums up the reality of the illusion of "democracy"!

Wattya gonna do? He's the puppet. He ain't running the country. Someone's pulling his strings. Same people will be pulling the strings of the next president too, regardless of which party he comes from.

poor America-stuck with this idiot GW

Un-freakin-believable! Bush vetoes: stem cell research and now this? would someone please give him a blowjob so we can impeach his evil & idiotic ass!

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Is this guy completely corrupt? Has he done anything good for the country? In seven years?

I can't think of a damn thing.

hey marty, can you forward that list to Dennis Kucinich, Chris Dodd and Ron Paul? I think those offenses are all impeachable.

Violated oath of office
violated Nuremburg Charter
violated Geneva Conventions
violated Uniform Code of Military Justice
violated US Code, Title 18, sect. 1001 (lying to Congress)
cut vet's healthcare
cut levee funds pre-Katrina
allowed 2000 New Orleans residents to die
killed a million Iraqis with no legal, ethical, rational justification
allowed more mercury in air, more arsenic in water
cut USDA inspections after 21 million-lb. recall for e-coli (excrement in beef)
gave billions in tax cuts to oil companies
permits torture, rendition to secret prisons
holds innocents incommunicado without charges
opened public lands to oil, gas "exploration" using explosives to find deposits among wildlife
opened nat'l forests to ATV's, snowmobiles
clearcut all but 10% of redwoods
laughs while our children die for oil companies
brought dishonor on our troops and our country
allowed N. Korea to build nukes
cancelled Clinton program shipping old Soviet nukes here to be destroyed
gave out TONS of hundred-dollar bills in Iraq, while refusing Saddam's offer to leave with a billion of Iraqi money, refusing Iranian offer to quit enriching uranium
had male prostitute visiting White House

but didn't have foreplay with woman in Oval Office

What surprises me is how this guys ass is not impeached yet...he is getting away with so much shit that generations will end up paying for it.

what a bunch of idiotic liars there are running this shit country

I'm so ashamed to be american, and every day that shame gets worse :(

Has everyone out there noticed that 'W' is only inarticulate when he is trying to show "compassion" (and to him it is all show)? He just doesn't have it in him, poor guy. We should feel sorry for him, after we impeach is sorry a**.

Not a regressive tax - actually progressive, as it shifts a greater portion of healthcare costs onto those who place a disproportionate burden on the healthcare system. Plus, if you give up smoking, you give up the tax. It's practically voluntary.

What surprises me is that ANYONE is still surprised by Bush's stupidity...& cupidity!

I can't think of anything good coming out of this presidency - and it cost so much for this lack of goodness too.

Wait a minute - EVERYTHING COSTS ALOT MORE in the last 6 years. College, Healthcare, Housing, Gasoline, Food, Furniture, Electricity, Travel, Vacations... If we just cut out those costs - maybe we can just get by.

What's that? We haven't been funding all of the U.S. debt? - darn - we have to pay for all of the great big bills for which we received nothing? I guess there is no way out of the upcoming BUSH DEPRESSION...

anonymous: ... and anytime the tax on cigarettes goes up even a little bit, many people quit, and fewer people start. So it actually also improves childrens' health :) But to the extent that it takes money disproportionately from poorer people, at least that's where almost all the money is going. Unlike all the other regressive taxes and fees we have, that go to the general fund, which primarily benefits people with a lot more money.

Stewart's actually being a little reactionary here. Yes, we can criticize Bush for the veto, but we should also criticize supporters of the bill. A tax on cigarettes is a regressive tax because poor people smoke more than rich people and because poor people spend a greater fraction of their income on cigarettes than rich people.

very cool
and very funny
buck fush

He is a foul evil human being. I can't believe anybody can support something like this.

This blew my mind when I first heard it. First blackwater is "cartoonishly evil" and now G.W.B. is Mr. Burns. I wish it weren't true.