Over 300 people showed up yesterday evening in Philly's Rittenhouse Square Park to rally for Children's Health Care. The American Medical Students Association, god bless'em, were out in force so there were white coats and scrubs everywhere. SEIU Healthcare PA were there to lead some chants and get the energy up. Of course the response from passing cars and pedestrians was overwhelmingly positive, which is what you would expect when every poll shows that Americans do not support BushCo's cruel and unnecessary veto of the bi-partisan, compromise reauthorization of SCHIP. More photos here. See if you can find me!
I don't expect the veto to get overridden on Thursday. The Party Over County party won't let their boy suffer any embarrassment - especially at the hands of the irrelevant Congress no matter which party controls it. And the insurance industry, as much as it likes getting checks from SCHIP, would like to see the specter of Universal Single Payer health care take a hit. Plus, the middle class has to be knocked back too - taught another lesson in exactly what they deserve from this economy. To paraphrase Tim Curry, they ask for nothing and they shall get it in abundance.
What will be particularly painful is waiting to see if the Dems, no friends of the middle class, will compromise with Dear Leader to get what they would wrongly consider to be a legislative win. Will they weaken the SCHIP bill itself or throw the Constitution under the Authoritarian bus by going along with the destruction of FISA? Hey, since we're talking about the Dems here, who knows? It could be both of those plus a promise to fully dissolve the party by the end of the year. If you see them capititulate on SCHIP, you'll know that they're almost there.
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