10/4: Bush Vetoes Children's Health Care: Join the Outrage

Bush exercised the veto of legislation expanding children's health care at 10 a.m. ET today, triggering rallies that will take place across the nation tomorrow in protest.
In Palo Alto, CA the Raging Grannies will stage a stroller derby with strollers racing toward health care while a stealth BUSH VETO stoller blocks their path.

Speaking in Pennsylvania, Bush said he vetoed the bill because it was a step toward "federalizing" medicine and inappropriately expanded the program beyond its focus on helping poor children, according to CNN.com. "In actuality this legislation was designed to take care of kids caught in a gap; their parents make too little to afford private health care but just enough to make them ineligible for Medicaid," said Raging Granny Ruth Robertson. "When Bush says the measure is beyond its original focus he just shows how uncaring he really is."

"I believe in private medicine, not the federal government running the health care system," news reports quote Bush as saying.

Congress sent the legislation on the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, to the White House on Tuesday after the Senate voted 67-29 last week to expand the program. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is quoted in news reports as saying she will try to get the 15 Republican votes to overturn the veto.

Join us at 11:30am on Thursday, Oct 4 at Lytton Plaza in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley for one of the most photo-worthy demonstrations of many that will take place across the nation. Location: Corner of University and Emerson avenues in dowtown Palo Alto. Granny Gail Sredanovic said, "Help us put the final nail in Bush's coffin; by publicizing this veto of children's health care we will help ensure that an outraged public will not support Republicans in 2008."