memeorandum: Let's Move The S-CHIP Debate Back To Policy (Ed Morrissey/Captain's Quarters)

2:20 PM ET, October 10, 2007

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Matthew Hay Brown / Baltimore Sun:

Frost family draws ire of conservatives — Halsey and Bonnie Frost, in front of their Butchers Hill house. Critics question whether the Frosts should be eligible for a federal insurance program. (Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor / October 9, 2007) — When Halsey and Bonnie Frost agreed …

Discussion: protein wisdom, Taylor Marsh, The Gavel, The American Street, Riehl World View, Middle Earth Journal, The Swamp, The Strata-Sphere, Norwegianity, TBogg and Shakespeare's Sister

Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:

Let's Move The S-CHIP Debate Back To Policy — The New York Times takes a look into the storm of controversy over the Frost family in the S-CHIP debate. David Herszenhorn gives a fairly balanced view of the nine-day wonder that the Frosts became, and settles some of the factual disputes that has plagued the sideshow:

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

The Corner:

Frosty reception — I tremble to return to the subject of the Frost family, if only because so many e-mailers in the last 72 hours seem to confuse a debate on health care with an analysis of my sexual inadequacy and the accommodational capacity of my posterior.

Discussion: five feet of fury.

Michelle Malkin:

Democrat poster-child abuse, the nutroots' pushback, and the continued campaign to silence the Right — Update 1:40pm Eastern. Bruce Kesler discovers that, despite living in one of the highest cost areas of the U.S., San Diego, owning a modest house in a middle-class neighborhood, with substantial equity, he qualifies for S-CHIP.

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Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice:

Graeme Frost & Why I'm Ashamed to Be a Blogger Today (Update II) — The Frosts Outside & Inside Semi-Palatial Home — The vicious underbelly of the blogosphere is in full-howl display over the story of Graeme Frost, the 12-year-old who gave a Democratic Party radio rebuttal to President Bush's veto …

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, Confederate Yankee and Adventus

Faiz / Think Progress:

Was A McConnell Staffer Behind The Campaign To Smear The 12-Yr Old SCHIP Recipient? — The right wing's attack on Graeme Frost, a 12-year old recipient of SCHIP, is now attracting attention from a number of traditional media outlets. "I think it's really a sad statement about how bankrupt …

Discussion: Eschaton, USA Today, Daily Kos and Suburban Guerrilla

David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Capitol Feud: A 12-Year-Old Is the Fodder

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:

My Clinton Problem - And Ours — A reader writes: … Yes, I remember. I was an unillusioned Clinton supporter in 1991 and 1992. As editor of The New Republic, I helped guide the magazine toward an endorsement of the guy. Heck, I edited Sid Blumenthal's coverage of the campaign and wrote the editorial that endorsed him.

Discussion: Ezra Klein and Oliver Willis

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Bomb, Bomb Iran — Hillary seemed rattled. — Up until now, she has displayed remarkable imperturbability — gliding along with the help of good lighting, a hearty guffaw and a clever husband. — But on Sunday in New Hampton, Iowa, Hillary lost her cool at last.

Discussion: The Reaction, The Atlantic Online, Hashmonean.com, Prairie Weather, Brilliant at Breakfast, Yourish.com and Washington Monthly

Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
The Silenced Majority — We are condemned, the smart guys tell us, to stay in Iraq.

Discussion: TalkLeft and Norwegianity

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Smile, Though Your Head Is Aching — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday. She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, JustOneMinute, Wake up America, The Politico, Redstate, Pirate's Cove, The Strata-Sphere, Right Voices and Gateway Pundit

Michelle Malkin:
Look who's "stalking" Nancy Pelosi

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Roll Call

Don Surber:
Pelosi swamped — Having had the worst 10 months for a House speaker …

Discussion: The Influence Peddler and Fausta's blog

Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:

Thank You, Jerry Nadler. — I am sitting here in my living room watching the FISA bill mark-up in the House Judiciary Committee. Jerry Nadler is rocking, and I had to take a moment to say thank you. From the hearing moments ago (this is me transcribing it, so it's a rough transcript):

ACLU:
Tell your representative: Stand up for the Constitution, fix FISA.

Discussion: WorkingForChange

The Corner:

The Day After... [E.M. Zanotti] — If you want to make friends in Michigan, the secret is to hold up your right hand in the in the universal "stop" gesture, popularized by Motown staple the Supremes, and announce to the crowd around you that "Michigan is a Mitt."

Discussion: Detroit News

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
The Threat of Ron Paul

Discussion: PoliBlog (TM)

Peter Baker / Washington Post:

From Former Bush Aide, A Candid Assessment Of the GOP Candidates — A former adviser to President Bush has a brutally candid analysis of the Republican presidential nomination contest: Fred D. Thompson is the campaign's "biggest dud," Mitt Romney has "a real problem in the South" …

Discussion: USA Today, The Hill, New York Times, The Politico, Wall Street Journal, Taegan Goddard's …, Agitprop, Los Angeles Times, The Swamp, TIME and Washington Monthly

Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Republican Debate: Winners and Losers

Discussion: Captain's Quarters

Eugene Volokh / Opinion Journal:

President Spock — What if Barack Obama told his wife he wouldn't say "I love you" anymore? — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he doesn't tell his wife he loves her any more, because "I love you" has become a substitute for "true love."

Discussion: Liberal Values, PrairiePundit and Punditry

San Francisco Chronicle:

Residents of a famously liberal city appear to be changing views — San Francisco - the liberal, left-coast city conservatives love to mock - could be undergoing a transformation when it comes to homeless people. Although the city would still be a poor choice for a pep rally for the war in Iraq …

Discussion: Jules Crittenden, Moonbattery, JammieWearingFool, Death, Daily Pundit and five feet of fury.

Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:

Generation Q — I just spent the past week visiting several colleges — Auburn, the University of Mississippi, Lake Forest and Williams — and I can report that the more I am around this generation of college students, the more I am both baffled and impressed.

Discussion: Brian Beutler, MoJoBlog and Gawker

International Herald Tribune:

Transcript: Charlie Rose interview with David Kilcullen — CHARLIE ROSE, HOST: Welcome to the broadcast. Tonight, insights into Iraq with David Kilcullen. He has been a senior adviser to General Petraeus. He is one of the leading counterterrorist experts in the world.

Discussion: PrairiePundit