[cmccuist]

I'll never forget when the clintons were president and the democrats controlled everything. hillary came up with her "punish the doctors", "reward the trial lawyers", socialized medicine plan. There were 11 democrats in the house ways and means committee and 10 republicans. The republicans submitted hillary's plan raw! no ammendments, no changes, just the bare-assed, horrific takeover by the government.

The final vote - 10 republicans voted against, 11 pussified, candyass democrats abstained. Thankfully, that sick piece of legislation never made it out of committee.

This is the same situation all over again. This trojan horse was never going to become law. It was always a campaign issue. W was going to veto it and the democrats were going to use it in the upcoming election and run ads about how heartless the GOP is when it comes to children and health care.

Even the most neophyte, unsophisticated political hack could see that. Those ads were probably being put in the can as the legislation was being drafted!