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Explaining the Unexplainable

by Susan Parker

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Well, let’s see… what unfathomable smear shall we examine today? I think your president’s insistence on vetoing the SCHIP bill that provides access to health care for the uninsured children of the U.S. is a good start.

Now, the president doesn’t get the big deal: According to him, when a kid gets sick, he or she can just show up at some emergency room for treatment. How can we explain this type of thought process? Emergency rooms are not set up to handle rashes, ear infections, sore throats, tummy aches and any number of childhood ailments. This is equivalent to telling a motorist whose car is overheating to rush to QuikTrip®… Yesssss, you might be able to buy antifreeze at a QT, and they have other related, but not appropriate stuff there, like gas and air for your tires… But they’re really not properly set up to handle an overheating car… Ultimately, not very close, and certainly, no cigar!

Your president is a parent. He has surely endured a few episodes of illness or injury of his kids. It is a basic human skill to apply your own experience to broader issues. It is not possible to lack this basic skill and still be human! And at this point, I prove I am unable to explain your president’s logic, or lack thereof.

So now, UNPRECEDENTED-ly, (as far as I know), state governors, led by New York’s Gov. Spitzer, are suing your president for his “narrow stance” on this issue. Wow! That’s just awesome!

This just in from the White House website, “The President does not believe health coverage for poor children should be held hostage while political ads are being made and new polls are being taken.” I admit this is kind of taken out of context, but still it makes no sense whatsoever.

My inability to explain the unexplainable is giving me a headache, so I’m off to the emergency room!


One Response to “Explaining the Unexplainable”

  1. Doug Says:

    President Bush represents the typical “I’ve got mine, get yours if you can” Republicanism. Rather than being concerned with the general welfare of Americans as a whole, his efforts are geared towards assisting the corporations. Compassionate conservative? Yeah, compassionate towards those who exploit the system to get ever richer at the expense of the common American.

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