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Florida SCHIP program is under attack…What can we do to expand this program and get insurance for all of those children whose parents can’t afford? This issue needs to be resolved. Bush promises a Veto? Please read the full article below to get a better understanding of what is really going on with childrens health care and politics.

By Amie Parnes
Originally published — 9:05 p.m., September 28, 2007Updated — 10:15 p.m., September 28, 2007
WASHINGTON — We were scratching our heads when we learned this week that Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Connie Mack had voted against the Children’s Health Insurance Program. After all, what do they have against children?
But nothing is ever as it seems in Washington.
And although Democrats accused Diaz-Balart, the Miami Republican who represents part of Collier County, and Mack, R-Fort Myers, of standing in the way of providing health coverage to children, Mack, at least had a different point of view.
“We all want children to have access to quality health care,” Mack said Friday. “That’s why a Republican Congress initially passed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and why we still support its goals.
But Mack said the Democrats’ new SCHIP plan is a “massive expansion of government-run health care.”
“Under this plan, adults could now receive SCHIP benefits, taking away limited resources from needy children,” he explained. “Illegal immigrants would gain new health benefits. Stiff new taxes would be imposed on millions of people and federal spending would balloon by tens of billions of dollars.
“SCHIP can and should be made available to the children who need it most,” Mack added. “It’s disappointing that the Democrats refused to simply reauthorize this important program — which I would have gladly supported — and instead imposed more government, more spending and more taxes on the American people.”
Diaz-Balart could not be reached for comment Friday.
Gotta love that Washington spin.
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Call it Nelson versus the Democratic National Commitee.
This week, Sen. Bill Nelson said his own political party has made him mad as hell. Something like that, at least.
The Florida Democrat said Tuesday he planned to file a lawsuit against the DNC refusing to allow state delegates to attend the Democratic National Convention in Denver next summer. The squabble began when Florida moved its primary election date from Feb. 5 – also known as Super Tuesday — to Jan. 29, so the state would have a more prominent role in selecting presidential nominees. But the move angered the DNC and the party decided to strip Florida of its convention delegates.
“There is no choice,” Nelson said. “I’m preparing a lawsuit.”
But Florida’s senior senator never really said how he would attempt to sue the Democratic National Committee and on what grounds.
On Friday, Nelson dropped another hint about his legal intentions.
“The lawsuit we’re intending to file next week won’t be about the rules of a political party,” he said. “It’ll be about the right of every person to have access to the ballot box, and to have their vote count. It’ll be about the fundamental concept of one person, one vote.”
Democrats have until today to push back their primary date or face the consequences of losing all their national convention delegates.
Stay tuned. We think this could get reeealllllly interesting.
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Those crazy days of hanging chads and butterfly ballots are here again.
HBO has cast Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Denis Leary, John Hurt and others to star in “Recount,” a drama about the 2000 presidential election and the place where it all unfolded — the Sunshine State, Variety reported this week.
Spacey will play Ron Klain, former chief of staff to Al Gore. But even better … Dern will play Katherine Harris, the made-up, much ridiculed secretary- of-state-turned congresswoman. (We just can’t WAIT to see that!)
It’s unclear when the movie will air but we have a sneaking suspicion it will turn up sometime around the 2008 election.