Is this what you wanted?
Conservative Republicans largely got the votes they did in the last 25 years of the 20th century from people who believed the myth--spread by Republicans--that most welfare went to black people who didn't really deserve it. Ronald Reagan's fictitious "welfare queen," who supposedly drove a Cadillac and supposedly lived the high life while collecting federal welfare checks, was no more real than Superman's nemesis Lex Luthor, but it felt good to believe it.
I doubt that most of these so-called Reagan Democrats wanted the federal government to cut off health coverage to children, white, black, or Hispanic. But the rabid ideologues of the Bush Administration can't sleep unless they've hurt somebody that day, so the administration has pulled out all the stops to kill a Democratic effort to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program.
CHIP was created by Sen. Allen Kukovich, a Democratic state senator from Pennsylvania, back in the late 1980s. Democrats would like to expand eligibility for the program as a means of getting more low and middle-income people into a health insurance program. President George W. Bush has proclaimed that anyone without health insurance can simply go to a hospital emergency room. The administration is desperately trying to kill the CHIP expansion because it fears it would be a foot in the door to creating a national health insurance program.
Did you vote for hurting children? I didn't think so. Let your local Congressman know you want him or her to vote against the Republican leadership on this important issue.