Override the S-CHIP veto
With a new CBS News poll showing 80 percent of Americans favor an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, and 74 percent willing to pay more in taxes to do so, it is time for Republicans to abandon the sinking SS Bush and give their constituents the lifeboat they so clearly want and need.
Override the President's veto of S-CHIP. Help more children from struggling families get the health care they need. You will reap political benefits if you do, and pay a political price if you don't.
This will be an easy vote for U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, the Democrat who represents the 17th Congressional District that includes Harrisburg. It will be a difficult one for U.S. Rep. Todd Platts, a Republican whose district is made up mainly of York and Cumberland counties in central Pennsylvania. Platts voted for the bill that Bush vetoed, and has increasingly shown a willingness to hew a more moderate course than the hardline conservatives would like. He needs to vote what the people want and let George W. Bush go hang.
Don't let "Texas mean" replace the liberal democratic values that have made America great.