Bush: To hell with all the sick American children, we've got a nice, juicy war to fight!

Many of us have known for years that George W. Bush's priorities are misguided.

Now he wants to take benefits away from sick children to pay for the ongoing killing and destruction in Iraq.

From yesterday's Boston Globe:

President Bush yesterday proposed deep cuts to federal healthcare, education, and transportation programs, searching for new money in the federal budget to pay for increasingly costly defense programs and the war in Iraq.

The president's $2.9 trillion spending plan calls for saving $100 billion in Medicare and Medicaid payments, and for limiting eligibility in the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- a change that could result in the loss of health care for children in Massachusetts and other states.

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They say that Congress controls the pursestrings. Now that the Dems are in charge, they better not pass up any opportunity to adjust our fiscal priorities.

It's time to start using the checks and balances that our Founding Fathers set in place especially for times like this.

Will this Congress have the courage to do so?