This week the senate passed legislation that would add approximately 4 million children to a number of popular healthcare programs over the next few months. The landmark legislation will arrive on President Bush’s desk by the weekend where it is all but guaranteed to receive a veto due to the attached rider to raise taxes on tobacco products to secure funding for the program.
Unfortunately both chambers must ensure a two-thirds majority vote in order to override a presidential veto. Although the veto is all but certain to send congress back to the drawing board, President Bush has handed Democrats a campaign issue that they will undoubtedly carry into the elections next fall.
It's not likely to get past the Presidential veto and in that its almost a hollow effort. The DC insiders will probably end up tail gating to Crawford chuckling over beers as they lean over their billet grilles on gas guzzling over sized trucks.
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