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More kiddie human shields, just as irrelevant as ever

Not content with having embarrassed themselves by picking a middle-income family with three late-model gas guzzlers and nearly $500k in assets (to go along with four kids in private school) as a poster family for needing to expand S-CHIP, the Dems one-upped themselves.  They pick another child (this one is two years old) to trot out for their shameful emotional (and not factual) plea to grow the imperial federal government.

Enter Bethany Wilkerson: 

Now meet Bethany Wilkerson, the latest youngster enlisted by congressional Democrats or their allies to help build support for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Having suffered from heart failure as an infant, USAction says, the Florida toddler would not be alive today but for the government-funded program for moderate-income families not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.

Now Bethany is scheduled to speak at a Capitol Hill rally Tuesday evening, according to a release this morning by Americans United For Change.

There was no word on what the 2-year-old plans to say. But she joins a flurry of 11th-hour activity in advance of the attempt by House Democrats on Thursday to override Bush’s veto of legislation to expand coverage to 4 million more children at a cost of $35 billion over five years. 

There’s just a slight problem here: the Wilkersons are already covered by S-CHIP today!  In other words, Bush’s veto has exactly zero impacton them!  Hell, the Wilkersons aren’t even arguing for the expansion of S-CHIP at all, so aside from their beautiful child being used as another human shield by the left, why are we seeing the Wilkersons in the first place?

Notes the Right Wing Nut House:

Funny how we don’t see any poster families who are 400% above the poverty level being pushed forward as examples of the kinds of people the $35 billion expansion of S-CHIP will help. Why not? Since the original parameters of the S-CHIP program enjoys the overwhelming support of Congress and the President, why trot forward families like the Frosts and the Wilkersons who qualify under the current rules? Why not bring to the fore those families at the high end of the expansion requirements and let the American people decide if they want to subsidize insurance for them?

The answer is obvious; a family living 400% above poverty are not as sympathetic as those, like the Wilkerson’s, who couldn’t get by without S-CHIP. In fact, pushing forward people who make more than 40% of all the families in America as the poster family for S-CHIP expansion would probably torpedo the bill then and there.

…The Democrats just don’t have a clue about the true nature of the opposition to their S-CHIP expansion. For that, they would have to give a fig about the tradeoffs we make between dependency and freedom every time they get some not so bright idea about “helping” those who can usually be counted on to help themselves.

You know with certainty that a big government power grab is unneeded when those who argue for it cannot even produce one single family to show why said power grab is even necessary.  With this S-CHIP expansion debate, the left is 0-for-2: a family with the means of procuring their own inexpensive health care plan (the Frosts), and a family that is already being served by the S-CHIP plan (the Wilkersons).

Care to try again, you shameless loathsome b#stards?

October 16, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | big government, economic ignorance, shameful, socialism