In his landmark speech to American University, President John F. Kennedy said the following:
"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
Apparently Republicans in Congress are disputing the second to last condition of similarity of all human beings. The Democratic Congress has rightly decided to expand SCHIP, or the State Children's Health Insurance Program which offers health insurance to underprivileged children.
President Bush has vowed a veto, saying it is a step towards national health care and used more scaremongering about 'socialized medicine'. I never thought it possible for President Bush to be a worse drag on the Republican's Congressional ticket across the country, but the man likes to defy expectations.
While some Republicans have rightly flipped from the dark side, many are sticking with the President and refusing to get into the last lifeboat from the sinking U.S.S. Bush. Republicans aren't used to being in the minority, and don't feel like playing nice even on a bipartisan cause of making sure kids see doctors. What's next, we won't agree on troops being able to stay at home between deployments? Oh, that's right the Webb Amendment was killed by Senate Republicans. How about a bipartisan compromise to fix the open border and the labor shortage? Nope, also killed by the radical Republicans in the Senate.
It seems that nothing is safe from the Republicans' attachment to partisanship, even soldiers and children. For the sake of the congress and the country, it is time to come together on the few things we can agree on instead of giving into bitter divisiveness. Perhaps we don't all cherish our children's future.
"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
Apparently Republicans in Congress are disputing the second to last condition of similarity of all human beings. The Democratic Congress has rightly decided to expand SCHIP, or the State Children's Health Insurance Program which offers health insurance to underprivileged children.
President Bush has vowed a veto, saying it is a step towards national health care and used more scaremongering about 'socialized medicine'. I never thought it possible for President Bush to be a worse drag on the Republican's Congressional ticket across the country, but the man likes to defy expectations.
While some Republicans have rightly flipped from the dark side, many are sticking with the President and refusing to get into the last lifeboat from the sinking U.S.S. Bush. Republicans aren't used to being in the minority, and don't feel like playing nice even on a bipartisan cause of making sure kids see doctors. What's next, we won't agree on troops being able to stay at home between deployments? Oh, that's right the Webb Amendment was killed by Senate Republicans. How about a bipartisan compromise to fix the open border and the labor shortage? Nope, also killed by the radical Republicans in the Senate.
It seems that nothing is safe from the Republicans' attachment to partisanship, even soldiers and children. For the sake of the congress and the country, it is time to come together on the few things we can agree on instead of giving into bitter divisiveness. Perhaps we don't all cherish our children's future.
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