President Bush saved us the expense of paying for a bunch of needy kids to have health insurance. It would have “federalized” medicine.

I keep wanting to write some punchline here, something to lighten the mood. And if it weren’t for legislators from both sides crying, nay –yodeling-, for me to recognize the gravity of this veto, I probably would. I probably would make light of it and ditch out from Debbie Downer Democracy Syndrome (like some porn gone awry – Debbie (goes) Down(er) in The Triple D Syndrome (Holy Necessary Parenthetical Asides to a Parenthetical Aside, Batman! That very accidental fumbling of words led to an interception of meaning which tip toes in the realm of Isms! (The THIRD parenthetical, in which I relish in the joys of anonymous blogging and its faceless permissions to let it all hang out; editless.)))

An example of a few of these yodels, loud enough to vaporize ala sonication any punchline:

 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: “It’s ironic that in the very same week that the president says he’s going to veto the bill because we can’t afford it, he is asking, what, for US$45 billion more over and above his initial request for the war in Iraq, money that we know is being spent without accountability, without a plan for how we can leave Iraq.” 

“This is all a matter of priorities: the cost of Iraq, US$333 million a day. The cost of SCHIP, US$19 million a day,” Representative Edward Kennedy said.

  “President Bush is a one-man axis of evil,” said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., chairman of one of the House subcommittees that helped write the bill. “I am disgusted by his veto of a bipartisan compromise that would have provided care to nearly 4 million uninsured children.”