Why We Hate Dislike

It is seemingly random crap like this that does it for us.

President Bush yesterday rejected entreaties by his Republican allies that he compromise with Democrats on legislation to renew a popular program that provides health coverage to poor children, saying that expanding the program would enlarge the role of the federal government at the expense of private insurance.

The president said he objects on philosophical grounds to a bipartisan Senate proposal to boost the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over five years. Bush has proposed $5 billion in increased funding and has threatened to veto the Senate compromise and a more costly expansion being contemplated in the House.

It must be a very small world indeed where this makes sense. Poor children really should be looking to the private insurance world for their insurance needs. Or, I guess, the parents of poor children should be looking to the private insurance world to provide insurance for their children. You know each one of these families probably has a line of insurance agents out the door with low cost, quality health care plans for the choosing.

And for those who don't make to the end of the article check out this tasty tidbit of Bush logic:

Bush said he is opposed to a bipartisan legislation that would allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco products, which could lead to stronger warning labels and limits on nicotine and other ingredients.

"We've always said that nicotine is not a drug to be regulated under FDA," Bush said.

Leavitt [Secretary of Health and Human Services] added that one danger is that the FDA could be seen as giving its stamp of approval to a product "that will never be safe."

That's right. We can't regulate tobacco because it is too dangerous to regulate.