Have you heard about the Rudy claim, using cooked-up numbers to bash "socialized medicine"? America's Mayor is trying to say that if he had been living in the UK, he would have died from prostate cancer, notwithstanding the fact that his numbers are false, and that the UK spends 41 percent of what we do on health care. Giuliani also failed to mention that he was the recipient of government-funded health care, a system very similar to what is being proposed by the Democrats.

But if Rudy wants to play that way, so be it. Maybe one of the Democratic candidates can do an ad showing babies from "socialized" Sweden, and explain how their chances of dying before age 5 would be double if they were born in the U.S., despite the fact we spend far more on health care.

So, Congress passes SCHIP again, and the president blasts them for not seeking a bipartisan compromise. but look who is stopping this compromise:

In a situation of bewildering political complexity, Republicans dictated the decision to pass the legislation speedily. It appeared their goal was to short-circuit attempts by supporters of the bill to reach a compromise that could attract enough votes in the House to override Bush's veto.

Attempts by (Senate Majority Leader Harry) Reid to delay final passage of the bill until next week or longer drew objections from the GOP.

Bush thinks he can make the Dems look weak by vetoing their bills and complaining that they are playing partisan games, when it's his shock troops in the Senate who are the ones playing the real games here.

It's interesting that CNN goes to the trouble of fact checking Micheal Moore on his new moive "Sicko." Too bad they don't do that with more important people, like the president, vice president, attorney general, Republican members of Congress, and every talking head they invite on the air.