Why Do Democrats HATE The Children So Much???

Jonathan Riskind, the Washington bureau chief from the Columbus Dispatch, files a report on the new proposal providing health insurance for poor children put forth by Republicans including "deficit hawk" George "The Crying Man" Voinovich. In the first sentence, Riskind characterizes the proposal as "dead on arrival."

Question: Why do Democrats HATE The Children so much???

I've asked the question and am waiting patiently for an answer...

UPDATE: Some details on the "dead on arrival" plan are here:

1) A full reauthorization of SCHIP. The program would continue to cover children in families with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level;

2) A child health care tax credit. Rather than putting more people on a government-run program, the legislation advances tax credits to families with incomes between 200% and 300% of the poverty level; and

3) A health care "federalism" initiative. This piece would complement both the reauthorization and the tax changes in expanding health care coverage, and would encourage even more dramatic health care experimentation at the state level with different approaches to coverage expansion.

UPDATE 2: Something tells me that Democrats will display more hatred for The Children by voting this one down too. Glenn Reynolds received an email from Coburn's office of the proposal:

This amendment, “The Children's Health Care First Act,” simply states that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for any congressionally directed spending item, or earmark, until the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services certifies that all children under the age of 18 years of age in the United States are insured by a private or public health care insurance plan.

Democrats will prefer earmarks and prok over The Children and that is why they HATE The Children.

UPDATE 3: The vote to override the President's veto of SCHIP for adults and illegals has failed. Reaction from Rep. John Boehner:

“Two weeks ago when the President vetoed this bill because it didn’t put poor children first, we could have had this vote right then and there. We could have had the override vote, and then we could have sat down and begun to resolve our differences. By now we could have had them resolved, and we could be here on a new bill to make sure that the poor children who don’t have health insurance actually get it.

“And so what I’d say to all of my colleagues is that I would hope that the political games will come to an end. And on behalf of House Republicans, I again extend this invitation to all of you: let’s sit down and work together in a bipartisan manner to resolve our differences. And secondly, let’s make sure that we put poor children first.”

The Democrats will have to get over their HATE of The Children first...

UPDATE 4: These facts just hit the email box:

After delaying the SCHIP veto-override vote for more than two weeks and spending millions on disingenuous political attack ads to smear Republicans, Democrats secured…..ZERO additional Republican votes for their misguided bill.

If measured by these results, the political strategy employed by House Democratic leaders must be considered a complete and utter failure. With congressional approval ratings hovering at 11 percent (according to yesterday’s Reuters/Zogby poll), and as most Americans have seen very little – if any – progress from this Congress, Democrats may want to start making good on the “most open” pledges they made last year if they’re interesting in accomplishing anything this year.

The Votes:

September 25 SCHIP Vote: 273-156

· 45 Republicans votes yes

· 151 Republicans voted no

· 5 Republicans did not vote

After 3 weeks and millions of dollars in political attack ads…

October 18, 2007 SCHIP Vote: 273-156

· 44 Republicans voted yes

· 154 Republicans voted no

· 2 Republicans did not vote