When we wake up after the House votes to uphold or not uphold Bush’s veto of the SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Plan), how do we want to see ourselves as Americans?  As a nation that cares for its own or who throws the poor and vulnerable to the sharks?

That is what we do. We don’t invest in the very thing that makes this country great—or once great nation—We don’t invest in the people who fuel this economy or who cannot help themselves.

Have we lost such touch with each other that we turn care for the poor and vulnerable—our children and our elders—into a divisive no holds barred political attack? 

Shame on us. Shame on us as a people that we have lost our way. Shame on us a nation that seems to have lost its conscience.  Shame on us for not insisting we have higher standards.
Shame on us for not standing up. 

I think we are bigger and better than that as a nation and that we need to re-claim our basic human decency that is being stripped from us by toxic partisan stalemates that drive us to division rather than shape a vision. 

We could start with health care.  Join us at CodeBlueNow! Today to chart a strong, and constant chart for a health care system that works for us, not against us and that invites the American public to solve a problem that no partisan bickering can ruin.