Author: Bill Scher

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 attack of the Frosts, the Wilkersons featured their two-year old Bethany, who was…

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 strong support for SCHIP in Western Maryland. The Fighting 29th observes: \”The S-CHIP debate shows just…

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.

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. And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air…

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 Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee. I\’d reprint it here, but it really…

Sen. John McCain rolled out his health care plan today, and said: Right now, too many of our citizens don\’t have an insurance policy at all, and those who do are afraid they will lose the one they have – afraid they will get too sick, afraid to stay home and not work full-time, and…

Last night on the Alan Colmes radio show, I debated conservative blogger Dan Riehl about the State Children\’s Health Insurance Program and the attacks on the Frost family, though I didn\’t have to do too much because Colmes picked Riehl apart quite nicely. Riehl has posted audio of most of the debate, headlining his post…

After liberal bloggers called out the conservative smear job on the Frost family, the New York Times, USA Today and Baltimore Sun picked up the story. And all conservatives have accomplished is to shine a brighter light on the struggles of working class Americans:

Last month, I noted that the coordinated attack against SCHIP had failed miserably, leaving conservatives desperate. Who knew how desperate they would get? Conservative bloggers have begun an intimidation and harassment campaign against 12-year old Graeme Frost and his family, who were in a major car accident severely injuring Graeme and his younger sister Gemma,…

In These Times and ThinkProgress had already taken the White House to task for pushing the lie that the SCHIP bill would raise the income eligibility limit to families earning $83,000 a year. Of course, Bush is still saying it: \”this program expands coverage, federal coverage up to families earning $83,000 a year. That doesn\’t…