The motherly side of Lady Laura ain’t no Pieta!
Laura Bush accuses Dems of demagoguery on SCHIP
By Aaron Blake
The Hilll
October 28, 2007
First Lady Laura Bush said Sunday that she is much more involved in policy than many people think and then went to bat for her husband on children’s health care and foreign policy.
Calling the state children’s health insurance program (SCHIP) “a perfect issue” for Democrats to demagogue on, Bush waded into largely uncharted public territory for her by taking exception to the party that opposes the president.
The first lady appeared genuinely upset about the Democrats’ tactics on the issue.
“It’s really easy to blame people for so-called voting against children,” Bush said in an interview on Fox News Sunday. The first lady went on to say that the bill would cover children who are not poor and added that the program is often used to cover adults.
“The president is very anxious to work with Congress and to come up with something that both he and they can be proud of,” she said.
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Lady Laura speaks while keeping count of the wheel revolutions
of her husband’s stationary bicycle.
(AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)