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...G.O.P. has had a rough month. But if Republicans think things will improve now that House Democrats have failed in their vote Thursday to override President Bush's veto of a $35 billion expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP), they are in for a rude awakening...
...Liberal interest groups have had a field day running brutal TV ads that take a page from adopt-a-starving-child commercials: adorable children stare wide-eyed into the camera as a voice-over criticizes the President and members of his party for blocking the S-CHIP bill ("George Bush just vetoed Abby" intones the narrator). And sick kids, it turns out, are just the opening salvo in a wider appropriations battle. Democrats have lined up an array of heartwarming - and expensive - spending bills that will be potentially embarrassing for Bush to veto...
...term. The decision to uphold a federal ban on so-called partial-birth abortions provoked a speculative outburst from the legendary women's rights advocate. The ban, she declared from the bench, "and the court's defense of it cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court--and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives." Someday we'll know whether the right to abortion will be chipped to nothing by the Roberts Court--or whether, as some legal theorists predict, the issue fades...
...that 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered last week for the Democrats, you can hear the lingering effects of the 2004 car crash that put him into a coma for a week and left one of his vocal cords paralyzed. "Most kids my age probably haven't heard of CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program," he says in a voice that sounds weak and stressed. "But I know all about it, because if it weren't for CHIP, I might not be here today...
Sheldon said the momentum of the round shifted when she made a nice chip and one-putted the 14th hole...