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The House just voted 273 to 156 to override Bush's veto of children's health insurance, 13 votes short of the needed two-thirds majority. Once again, the conservative minority in Washington has obstructed the public will. While congressional leaders were able to...

The House has begun to debate the State Children's Health Insurance Program expansion, with the vote whether to override Bush's veto expected to happen later today. (All the action at C-span.org.) With the help of the Bush Dog campaign, most of the conservative...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

A particularly egregious Sunday as the talk shows hosts once again go 0-for-3 for the Watchdog. ABC's This Week host George Stephanopoulos was happy to ask Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell about the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). But he...

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

If you thought conservatives hit rockbottom attacking a 12-year-old and his parents on children's health insurance, you failed to consider what comical depths they could still reach. Unless their website got hacked, this is an actual SCHIP press release from House...