This morning’s NY Times has an editorial pointing out that Kanye West was wrong when he said, “George Bu$h doesn’t like black people.” Actually, he doesn’t like any people, unless they’re millionaires, or corporations. Congress passed a renewal of the SCHIP act and Mr Bu$h vetoed it because it was wasted money that should have been spent on his legacy, the ego-war he’s saddled the nation with. (Yes, I know he said he provided for $5 billion more in his budget, but that wasn’t enough to keep pace with inflation and increased medical care costs. As I said, he just didn’t want to waste money on poor children that could be spent on the defense industry. If he’s entitled to his outrageous lies, then I’m entitled to mine.)

The House approved a revised bill to finance the children’s health insurance program yesterday by a 265-to-142 margin — a strong mandate, but still not enough to overcome another promised veto by President Bush.

If the president carries out this threat, we hope Congressional tacticians can find a way to enact this important measure over the adamant, ideologically driven opposition of Mr. Bush and House Republican leaders. The health of millions of children who lack insurance cannot be held hostage to the president’s visceral distaste for government and its essential role to protect the weak, or his desire to protect the tobacco industry.

The Times is wrong here. When George Bu$h vetoes this newest bill, they should turn it around and send it back up again two days later. Let him veto it again. Send it up a third time, and let him veto it again.

House Democrats tried hard to address the issues raised and relentlessly hyped by Republican critics. The bill would speed up the removal of childless adults who have been enrolled in the program in a handful of states, and would reduce the enrollment of parents, even though including parents is often the best way to reach their children.

So the Dems, gave in, and denied needy children in families making what the elititst and aristocratic millionaire Republican politicians consider “too much money.” Sorry, lower middle income kids in families living on incomes more than three times the poverty level. It’s your own damned fault for not being born into a Republican politician’s family. Next time show better biological sense.

Our own feeling is that states where the cost of living is high should be able to cover middle-class families. But if limiting the program to 300 percent of the poverty level is necessary to get this important legislation enacted, that would be a price worth paying.

The administration says it does not want to add $35 billion more to enlarge the program, known as S-chip, over the next five years. The House bill would pay for that largely by raising tobacco taxes, but that does not satisfy the White House. The president is also opposed to enlarging a government-financed insurance program that he says might compete with private insurance. To allay those fears , the new bill would encourage premium assistance to help families buy private policies and require all states to come up with policies to lessen the incentive to switch to S-chip.

But that still wasn‘t good enough for the Republicans. This is a stupid game. The Republicans will always find something wrong with any bill the Democrats produce. This game isn’t about sick children unable to get medical help. It’s about making the Democrats look hapless. Just how stupid are Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Heny Stoyer anyway? Have they been kicked so many times they’ve forgotten how to play a home game?

George Bu$h is a bully. The Republican leadershp in the House is a pack of yapping dogs, chasing at his heels. They’re bullies, too. Bullies only stop when they are defied. I learned this in the third grade. I don’t understand why the alleged Democratic leaders in Congress never grasped this simple lesson of life.