“Every Senate Republican facing a difficult reelection bid bolted from Bush yesterday.”
The Washington Post reporting on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program vote.
Voting their consciences, every one.
The vote was 67-29. In the House, it passed 265-159.
The children’s health bill, in contrast, has the support of moderate Republicans and conservatives, business interests and even abortion opponents such as the Roman Catholic Church. The measure has the backing of the health insurance industry and children’s and disease-control advocates, most of the nation’s governors, AARP and the American Medical Association.
But not the worst president ever, who threatens his third veto.