Bush hates little kids?

Once again it’s recess, and once again Bush plans to have his way despite that silly old Congress . . .

As reported in the New York Times, in a letter sent out at 7:30 p.m. last Friday, the Compassionate Conservative-in-Chief went around the House and Senate to forestall expansion of the SCHIP program just authorized by Congress.

The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, has adopted new standards that would make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income families.

Administration officials outlined the new standards in a letter sent to state health officials on Friday evening, in the middle of a monthlong Congressional recess. ...

Kinda makes you wonder why we bother to have a Congress at all, doesn’t it? I mean, think of all the money we’d save!