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Conservatives Have Already Lost The SCHIP Debate

To turn the public against expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program, conservatives tried to spread misinformation, intimidate kids and their parents, and make bizarre attempts at humor. None of it has worked. A new poll and analysis from the Kaiser...

More Glorious Conservative Honesty

Last week, I hoped for "More Conservative Honesty" when talking about children's health insurance. And today we got it. ThinkProgress today reports on the latest conservative attack on a SCHIP family. This time, it's the Wilkersons. Refusing to be intimidated by the...

The Choice on SCHIP

Last night, the Frost family was interviewed on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," where they not only shared their experience having conservative bloggers try to intimidate them, but also shared pictures of what two of their kids went through after being in a...

Local Blogs Keep The SCHIP Pressure On

With the vote to override Bush's veto of children's health insurance scheduled for Thursday, blogs are continuing to help hold House conservatives accountable to their constituents. Free State Politics informs Rep. Roscoe Bartlett about the latest poll numbers showing...

Bloggingheads.tv on SCHIP

On Bloggingheads.tv, I joined Conn Carroll of the Hotline Blogometer to analyze, among other things, the conservative blogosphere's attack on SCHIP expansion and the Frost family. Click here to watch.

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