memeorandum: The "Not So Poor" 12 Year Old Who Rebutted Bush on SCHIP Veto (Free Republic)

11:10 PM ET, October 7, 2007

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The "Not So Poor" 12 Year Old Who Rebutted Bush on SCHIP Veto — Graeme Frost, who gave the democrat rebuttal to George Bush's reasons for vetoing the SCHIP Bill, is a middle school student at the exclusive$20,000 per year Park School in Baltimore, MD. — Graeme was in a severe car accident …

Discussion: Tapscott's Copy Desk, PrairiePundit, Democracy Project, The Shotgun and Power Line

Don Surber:

3,000 square foot home, but cannot 'afford' health insurance? — Remember the Frost family of Baltimore? They had a bad traffic accident 3 years ago. Their medical bills were paid by the taxpayer-subsidized SCHIP. Democrats trotted out Graeme Frost, 12, to call the president mean …

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Instapundit.com, Macsmind and The Corner

Mark Steyn / The Corner:

Brother, can you spare a CHIP? — This would seem to be a fairly typical media trajectory. The Democrats sign up a sick kid to read their Saturday morning radio address. As Paul Krugman has observed, Bill Kristol, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of us heartless bastards on the right were no doubt too busy laughing to pay attention.

Discussion: Doug Ross, Blue Crab Boulevard, Whiskey Fire, NewsBusters.org, Sister Toldjah, Wizbang, Wake up America, protein wisdom and Gateway Pundit

Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:

'Journalists' Tell Howard Kurtz Why Good News from Iraq Shouldn't Get Reported (updated w/video) — As CNN's Howard Kurtz accurately pointed out on Sunday's "Reliable Sources," few media outlets seemed at all interested in giving much attention to the great news out of Iraq last week regarding September's sharp decline in casualties.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, Wake up America, Ed Driscoll.com, INSTAPUTZ, The Sundries Shack and Riehl World View

Nathaniel R. Helms / warchronicle.com:

Al Qaeda in Haditha: The battle the media ignored — Buried in the mountain of exhibits attached to the once secret Haditha, Iraq murder inquiry prepared by US Army Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell is an obscure Marine Corps intelligence summary (see pdf) that says the deadly encounter …

Discussion: PrairiePundit, Wake up America, Gateway Pundit and Stop The ACLU

Bluto / The Jawa Report:

Report: Haditha 'Massacre' Planned by al Qaeda — Defend Our Marines has discovered a declassified intelligence summary detailing how al Qaeda operatives planned and executed the Haditha "massacre" in order to discredit US/Coalition forces: … The report is based on information …

Discussion: protein wisdom

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:

Is America Now South Asia? — No developed country in the world actually bestows political office on women because they were once the wives of presidents. It has tended to happen in South Asia - Sri Lanka, India, the Philippines - but certainly not in modern, developed, Western societies.

Discussion: Unqualified Offerings

Geoffrey Wheatcroft / Washington Post:

Who Made Hillary Queen? — Among so much about American politics that can impress or depress a friendly transatlantic observer, there's nothing more astonishing than this: Why on Earth should Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton be the front-runner for the presidency?

Discussion: The Reaction, The Atlantic Online and Blue Crab Boulevard

Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Old party soldier takes sides: Fighting then and now

Discussion: CNN Political Ticker and The Politico

David S. Broder / Washington Post:

Why Is This GOP Strategist Smiling? — The day had been full of ominous warnings. Polls showed the Republicans on the losing side of almost every issue and the 2008 presidential race — and now they're forced to defend a controversial veto of a popular children's health bill.

Discussion: Let Freedom Ring, The Carpetbagger Report, Daily Kos, D-Day, PrairiePundit, The Influence Peddler, Booman Tribune, The Newshoggers and Blue Crab Boulevard

Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The remaining GOP base — the 30%'ers and the Broder/Ignatius pundit

Discussion: The American Street, Take Our Country Back, Wake up America, BartBlog and Suburban Guerrilla

David Ignatius / Washington Post:
'A Way Out' for Iran — If you read the liberal blogosphere …

Discussion: ePluribus Media Community, Empire Burlesque, Booman Tribune and SWJ Blog

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Beauchamp Update — If you've been following the Scott Thomas Beauchamp Affair, I strongly recommend reading the latest update from The New Republic. The short version is that the Army's investigation of the case appears to be confined to a) releasing no information about their investigation …

Discussion: protein wisdom, The Sundries Shack and Riehl World View

Chuck Todd / MSNBC:

Clinton gets snippy with Iowan over Iran — From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones — NEW HAMPTON, Iowa — At a campaign stop here, Hillary Clinton sparred verbally for several minutes with a man who pressed her on her recent vote to call Iran's army a terrorist organization.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and MyDD

Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:

FRANK RICH, CLARENCE THOMAS, AND THE MISSOURI ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL: In today's New York Times, Frank Rich has a rather nasty essay that purports to catch Justice Thomas misrepresenting his past. The specific example is Justice Thomas's first job out of law school in the Missouri Attorney General's Office.

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Right Voices, QandO, PrairiePundit and New York Times

Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Orin Kerr devastates Frank Rich...

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, Power Line, Norwegianity and Bark Bark Woof Woof

Media Matters for America:

Barnes: Obama not "strong on national security" because he opposed war "when the entire world believed" Saddam had WMD — On the October 6 edition of Fox News' The Beltway Boys, co-host and Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes claimed that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is …

Discussion: Paul Krugman and The Carpetbagger Report

Washington Post:

More Torture Memos — PRESIDENT BUSH said Friday, as he has many times before, that "this government does not torture people." But presidential declarations can't change the facts. The record shows that Mr. Bush and a compliant Justice Department have repeatedly authorized the CIA …

Peter Baker / Washington Post:

An Exit Toward Soul-Searching — As Bush Staffers Leave, Questions About Legacy Abound — It had been four days since Meghan O'Sullivan left her job at the White House. Just four days since she gave up her Secret Service pass, her classified hard drive and her entree to the president.