Arkansas Blog

I spent time last night reading on some of the conservative sites about this.
It made me sick.
The things they were saying about this child and his family.
The assumptions that were made, the amount of personal information
discussed on a public boards was scary.

That waste of space Malkin even went to their place of business and home.
Of course they want regular folks to be scared of what may happen to them if
they have the nerve to speak out, I'd be freaked out if that $%#*^^%&&* Malkin
was stalking my family.

The best part is that none of them seem to get the point of the Frosts discussing
their situation in the 1st place. Small business owners living from feast to famine
afford to pay for health insurance. Regular middle class folks can't afford health
insurance, even for their kids. If it was not for SCHIP they would have lost
EVERYTHING when their children were injured in the accident. If it was not for the
program their children may not have even gotten the proper care they needed even
if they had insurance.

My husband is a smoker, we live on about the same amount of money as the Frosts,
and he is more then happy to pay more money per pack if it means that KIDS (not adults)
can get health care. We are lucky that WalMart has finally gotten decent health insurance
and we won't lose our dbl wide if we have a catastrophic health situation.

Swiftboating 12 year olds who are disabled due to injury in an auto accident is a new low for the chasv like people who consider themselves journalists. If Malkin or any of the other people doing this have children the children need a consultation with social workers.. who knows how they treat their own kids?

I have a few problems with S-CHIP such as the fact it doesn't include all children and the fact everyone at any age needs health care, not just children.. It wont be helpful if a child who isn't covered gets sick and spreads the illness due to the fact he or she is contagious and has not received care. It wont help a child if a parent or grandparent gets sick without health care etc. etc. It feels like another round of triangulation but we should demand what is on the table be fought for nonetheless.

As of yesterday five House Democrats were still holding back from supporting a vote to override the Bush veto. 4 Blue Dogs and One New Dem.. A couple are from the Carolinas where big tobacco $$ owns the congress critters not the people. Mike Ross is a Blue Dog and Snyder is a New Dem.. you could contact them and tell them to get their groups in order.

If a Republican like Boozeman cannot shuck the Bush bots on this one I hope at the very least it wakes up the AR D party and NW AR residents enough to finally see just how truly dreadful he is. Hes killing our troops needlessly I guess he doesn't mind killing little kids either. Wasn't he a doctor for christ sakes? After all 45 Republicans voted correctly last time.. Boozeman needs to do the right thing and change his vote.

(link to last vote tally at my name)

>>And these shrieking wingnut jackasses are harassing their family for publicly supporting the program that allowed the kids to get health care. A program, by the way, which a large number of these Republicans support as well.<<

Let them keep shrieking and driving nails into the coffin of these extremists. I don't think they're breaking Lincoln's Law, (can't fool all the people all the time) nor will they but one thing is for certain they will try.

There's always 30-40% of people in this nation so devoid of reason that any bizzare thing will work and they will say anything to support their wacknut puppeteers. And that's about the percentage who supported Hitler.

The rightwing butt-hole that did a search on insurance rates didn't take into account the existing health issues the kids have from the car accident mentioned in the articles.

Every thing is soooo easy for them to put folks into a cookie cutter mold to make excuses as to why their taxes shouldn't be used for this or that.

I get sicker each day at the way this world has become.

Daily kos is covering this issue thusly, and I might add ,on target:

....................The GOP's new "Schiavo moment"................................
by kos
Tue Oct 09, 2007 at 09:16:23 AM PDT

The right-wing Jihad against 12-year-old Graeme Frost continues, with Rush taking his cues from already discredited Freeper attacks.

Rush Limbaugh has joined in the smear campaign. On his radio show yesterday, Rush introduced his hit job on Graeme by saying, "I had some rudimentary information on this two weeks ago, and it wasn't enough for me to trust going with. But since then, it has been verified, and most of it's been verified by a 'Freeper' at Free Republic." Apparently, a posting by a "freeper" is all Rush needs for confirmation.

(oh by by the way Max..I think you have too many "n's " in Annals of...
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Pitiful, isn't it, that people will begrudge children getting health care so the corporatists can make more money, even if some of those children will DIE because of a lack of care.

Showing their true colors, aren't they. They obviously AREN'T into the sanctity of life!

Family coverage for $400, $500 or $600? No deductible? Minimum co-pay? Uh huh. All I can say to the guy who dug up these numbers -- if he truly believes in fairy tales -- is wait until underwriting. Then assuming he bites for one of these fantastic gold-plated plans, wait until the medical bills come in and the insurance company starts crawfishin'.
I wish I could twitch my nose and saddle, er, uh, bestow one of these plans on that guy, then sit back and wait for the day . . .
And the guy who said Graeme's father should give up his "woodworking hobby" and get a real job? Shall we get back to him when his boss, that guy who holds his family's possibly uninsurable future in ever-more-greedy hands, decides to move the job offshore?
I know what's wrong with Bushie -- that silver foot in his mouth -- but what is wrong with these people? Bitch about taxes -- when it's the super rich getting most of the breaks nowadays -- but don't have sense enough to figure out that health insurance premiums far surpassed taxes for a lot of families years ago?
I can't believe people are so damned dumb.

I have been thinking for hours what to say, but I don't have to words to express how I feel about these assholes.
Picking on a 12 year old kid is just beyond shameless.

Nope, sorry guys. The Dems and this kid's family allowed him to be used as a prop here and that means it's all fair game. If they didn't want that, they didn't have to play. So drop the mock outrage. Same thing on the other side: If Bush and the Repubs want to march out generals and soldiers to support their case for the war, then those generals and soldiers can be targeted by moveon.org and all the daily kossacks. Once you enter the arena of political debate you accept that the rules apply to you.

A PROP? This is a 12 year old kid who damn near died in an accident.
Name me one time any Democrat attacked a child, Wageslave.

OK, let's agree that the Repugs are going to slam the Dems' points and vice versa. The conservative columnists are going to look for every possible chink to start gouging and maybe a liberal organization might attach another snarky name or two on the opposing team. All a given, right?
Unless I missed something and I may well have, the 12 year old was not directly attacked; his parents were.
However, that point does not excuse the misleading commentary, venom and harrassment displayed by conservatives throughout this episode. Rules, Wageslave? More like gang warfare. The nonsense I've heard and read goes miles beyond attempting to determine credibility or the lack of it. The "coverage" degenerated into vicious and unwarranted attacks.
Still, I'm not surprised by any of this.
But I must keep asking: WHERE did the folks who are one event -- be it illness, accident or offshoring -- away from economic disaster, leave their brains?