Enough with the excuses already! I believe we have finally heard some truth from the lame duck President with the 24% approval rating:

A defensive President Bush insisted that he was still relevant this morning in a news conference dominated by his bitter complaints about the Democratic Congress.

Asked how he found himself vetoing a children's health insurance bill that had passed Congress with bipartisan support, Bush insisted that using a veto is "one way to ensure I am relevant."

So, who is more relevant:

A bipartisan majority in Congress or George W. Bush?

84% of Americans who support SCHIP or George W. Bush?

6.6 million uninsured American children or George W. Bush?

Maybe we should ask Todd Tiahrt.

72 percent of Americans stand in support of our children's health, and Kansas Democrats such as Governor Sebelius and Representatives Moore and Boyda are continuing to call upon members of the US House and Senate to override President Bush's irrational veto.

Todd Tiahrt supports the President in leaving 34,000 Kansas kids without health care, and it looks like a trio of GOP candidates are willing to do the same.

...Nick Jordan, a Republican seeking to unseat Moore in 2008, says if he were in Congress, he would support Bush's veto.

Meanwhile, the campaign of Republican Jim Ryun, who wants to unseat Boyda, criticized the proposed SCHIP bill. And Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, another Republican who also wants to challenge Boyda, declined to say whether she supported the SCHIP bill or Bush's veto.

2,327 Kansas Democrats asked President Bush not to veto SCHIP today.

Governor Kathleen Sebelius and a group of 43 bipartisan governors joined together to show the President that our children and our states benefit from SCHIP.

Democratic Representatives Dennis Moore & Nancy Boyda voted in favor of SCHIP.

86 percent of the American people supported reauthorizing SCHIP, with seven in ten saying they supported the Democratic plan to expand SCHIP by $35 billion over five years.

34,000 Kansas children and 6.6 million children across the nation who would be covered under SCHIP were counting on Bush to not veto SCHIP.

And yes...you guessed it...

Goerge W. Bush vetoed SCHIP.

But wait...

Let's not forget Todd Tiahrt!

He voted against SCHIP from the beginning! Now he has the opportunity to stand up with common sense Kansans and vote in favor of insuring our state's children.

Write Todd Tiahrt, and tell him you supported our children from the start. Then tell him to do the same by joining Democrats to override Bush's bogus veto!