Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning, who single-handedly blockaded extension of unemployment benefits to 400,000 and forced the furlough of 2,000 workers, is a Republican Superhero. He personifies the mean-spirited, hypocritical, wealthy-serving, obstructionist GOP.

Rocky has saved the Children’s Health Insurance Program till 2019 in Harry Reid’s Senate bill, stopping it from being swallowed up by the mysterious but probably pretty crappy health care to be forced on poor families in the new health care system’s ‘health insurance exchanges’.

Why are the big ‘progressive’ blogs maintaining a conspiracy of silence about the fact that the House health bill kills the Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP).

The House version of the health care d/reform bill will kill the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), replacing it with untested, more expensive, and much less comprehensive coverage for children.

The House released a final version of the health reform bill. It has a public option all right, but not the robust version progressives were hoping for. The public plan would only cover 2% of Americans and premiums will cost more than anticipated.